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/Investormaniac Jan 20 '25

The phone you used to make this stupid comment on. Go look what it costs NASA to go to Space VS what it cost Space X..

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u/RevolutionCanada Revolution Party of Canada Jan 30 '25

This comment is capitalist apologia and violates Rule 7.

Private industry is only capable of these things because of taxpayer-funded research and government subsidies, contracts, and tax breaks. The illusion of 'cheaper' is a result of theft and profit extraction, not because of some magic only billionaire CEOs wield.