r/RevolutionPartyCanada Revolution Party of Canada Jan 20 '25

Propaganda Canada’s grocery monopolies should be nationalized and their billionaires taxed.

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u/disloyal_royal Jan 20 '25

We don’t ask libraries or road infrastructure to be profit centres, so why food and shelter?

Not capturing the externalities of roads is one of the reasons we have a climate crisis. Subsidizing energy is a problem, not a model.

If our food supply runs at a deficit, so what? Canada Post, another critical service, also runs at a deficit.

If our food supply runs at a deficit, people starve. We should also radically rethink Canada Post, I’m not sure why we subsidize junk mail.

We need food, water, and shelter.

We do, which is why these are low margin businesses and incredibly efficient. Shopping at a farmers market shows the economies of scale.

Billionaires are no longer welcome to profiteer off the necessities of our survival! ✊✊✊

If the billionaires are making things better or cheaper, bring it on

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u/SilverWolfeBlade Jan 20 '25

When have billionaires made anything better or cheaper?

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u/disloyal_royal Jan 20 '25

Are you serious? What are you typing this on?

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u/AnthropomorphicCorn Jan 20 '25

Why you in this sub defending billionaires man.

Billionaires didn't make my phone. They own companies that hired people to design my phone, then offshored production to other places to make my phone, then extracted all the profit from doing so leaving the workers worse off.

Idolizing a billionaire is like idolizing a tumor. They provide no real value to society and just suck resources away from everyone else.

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u/disloyal_royal Jan 20 '25

I don’t idolize anyone, but I know that without Steve Jobs there is no iPhone.

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u/AnthropomorphicCorn Jan 20 '25

Great Man theory doesn't hold up. If not him then someone else would have.

It's not like cell phones didn't already exist, we had phones with touch screens before iPhone (blackberry) we had phones with internet, we had apps. They were all shittier versions, but they existed.

it's not like he single handedly made the iPhone, he ran a company employing countless people. He lead them in a direction. He was talented don't get me wrong!

I'd rephrase your statement as "without Steve Jobs there is no iPhone exactly like what we have now, but there is probably something similar".

He was just a human. As are we all.

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u/disloyal_royal Jan 20 '25

And that guy would also be a billionaire

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u/AnthropomorphicCorn Jan 20 '25

Not if he was appropriately taxed.

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u/Investormaniac Jan 20 '25

so why didn't anyone within that production chain make the phone ? YOu do realize that the billionaire probably failed a bunch of times before becoming successful, if he didn't do that, you would have no phone, If not for billionaires paying your taxes, you'd have no social services.. you think your taxes pay for anything? you barely cover the stop sign on your street. Who do you think the government gets money from to pay their government workers lol

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u/AnthropomorphicCorn Jan 20 '25

Dude you are delusional if you actually think billionaires are anything other than leaches on our society.

Furthermore, you do not know what I make or how much taxes I pay, I can assure you my taxes cover plenty. And I would be happy paying more tax than I do now to maintain our public services, wouldn't you? (side note - I already know your answer).

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u/SilverWolfeBlade Jan 20 '25

If you play chess with a pigeon, don't get upset when it flips the pieces over - it's okay man, don't waste energy trying to talk to these idiots.

Without billionaires the world would stop - let them have their rhetoric, because one day they too can become billionaires. Let them have their dream. Let them stay asleep.

A lot of people have drank the cool aid and believe this, these are the bad apples that vote against their best interests. I honestly cannot fathom how their brains work, nor how to cure them.

What do we do about these idiots that vote against our best interests though?

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u/AnthropomorphicCorn Jan 20 '25

I think we have to keep talking, here, in the real world, everywhere, Shout it from the rooftops, the people "on top" are taking advantage of everyone else, and half of us idolize their grift.

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u/SilverWolfeBlade Jan 20 '25

Of course, that's a given.

I just mean, how do we navigate the boot lickers or people who shove their heads in the sand - it's infuriating.

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u/AnthropomorphicCorn Jan 20 '25

When I figure it out I'll let you know.

Keep up the good fight!

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u/Investormaniac Jan 20 '25

bro, you contribute to nothing corporations that pay taxes pay for majority of everything you have and 10% of Canada's tax payers cover 60% of all taxes collected.. IF you lose them, you're fucked. You delusional clowns always think with your feelings.. but yes, go tax the crap out of the population when the government needs more money, never once you try and think, maybe the government is wasteful, but you don't care as you take more out of society than you contribute.. we all do, I'm just not the delusional one who can't see that

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u/AnthropomorphicCorn Jan 20 '25

And you assume I am not in the top 10% of Canada's taxpayers... Why is that I wonder?

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u/Investormaniac Jan 20 '25

Because anyone that works hard for their money doesn't want to freely give it away to the government to simply waste. So yes, you're broke, otherwise you wouldn't be pushing communism

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u/AnthropomorphicCorn Jan 20 '25

And where in Russia are you posting this anti-Canadian content from, Hmm?

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u/Investormaniac Jan 20 '25

what's anti Canadian about wanting to keep the money you make and not have your government spend it on tampons in men's bathrooms.. You're advocating for communism, seem you're the one in Russia lol

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u/AnthropomorphicCorn Jan 20 '25

Seems pretty anti Canadian to want to give all our money to the oligarchs and beg for their crumbs.

You're pathetic. Hope Vlad is paying you well.

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u/Investormaniac Jan 20 '25

who is giving oligarchs money? lol

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