I know it's a gag post, but I always like to see a reference to After Man or Man After Man.
Fuck developers.
If they don't want to build housing, we should nationalize a few of them and build it ourselves.
That's actually what I was trying to understand. I recall evasion being less of a thing when I was living in Toronto (so much so that I used to get in trouble with late transfers sometimes) so I was wondering what changed.
It sounds like a combination of increased ridership and decreased staffing.
I'd note that I also don't see inspectors on the GO with the regularity that I used to, either.
How about...hiring staff at all gates, like they did back when I lived in Toronto. It's been nearly 20 years, but I recall it being somewat difficult to get into a station, and only marginally easier to get on a streetcar or bus, without having paid a fare.
Or am I missing something?
Well shit, I really liked Book Depot, or at least their physical space in St. Catharines.
I'm less sad it's gone now.
Because Google was so focused and strategic before the pandemic rollseyes.
The issue is Google’s broken governance and incentive system, which gives product owners and executives incentives for new products and actively disincentivizes maintaining and improving existing products...and that was a thing from well before the pandemic hit.
It's why Google launched three pay systems and had five messaging systems at the same time.
And, finally, this is all because of the strategy set by senior leaders.
Next time, don’t depose a democratically elected president at the behest British Petroleum, just because said president is too left wing and would rather like to keep his country’s oil wealth.
Also, don’t install an unpopular monarch in that left wing president’s place.
Finally, don’t continue to support said monarch such that his unpopularity inspires a fundamentalist counterrevolution.
The market has solved it.
You just don't realize what the market has solved for. It didn't solve the problem of expensive healthcare, it solved the problem of how to maximize profits for the wealthy.
That's what people don't understand about "the market". What you think it's doing isn't what it's actually doing.
When fucking Fortune magazine is calling out late-stage capitalism, you know we're in trouble.
How about we go back to the one where we applied a marginal tax rate of 90% to the rich?
This stuff should ring alarm bells for anyone who studied history, because these are 1920s/1930s Germany-style micro movements.
Naziism didn't start with the Final Solution. It didn't start with work camps. It didn't even start with the beer Hall putsch. It started with things like this.
Chickenshits cowering behind bulletproof glass.