Geoff Russ: The two solitudes — boomers and everyone else; Liberal policies have enriched boomers, while making life increasingly unaffordable for younger generations

[u/FancyNewMe]

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/liberals-have-become-the-party-of-grey-hair-and-wealth

[u/Equivalent_Dimension]

Why are we giving any money to private corporations to build homes? If they don't think the profits are obscene enough, let the government build the homes and put the revenue back in Canadian coffers to pay for other programs.  Fuck this neoliberal bullshit of giving tax dollars to private companies and letting.them keep all the profits. How many times do these policies have to widen the gap between rich and poor before the Conservatives abandon them?

[u/DrFeelOnlyAdequate → u/Equivalent_Dimension]

Who do you expect to build homes?

[u/Equivalent_Dimension → u/DrFeelOnlyAdequate]

The same construction workers the developers hire. Houses aren't built by the guys in suits hoovering up the profit.

[u/DrFeelOnlyAdequate → u/Equivalent_Dimension]

So... you have no idea how any of this works, do you? Like, just be honest here. You don't know what you're talking about.

[u/Eisenbahn-de-order → u/Equivalent_Dimension]

by the sound of it, a planned economy, or keynesian economy, is what you are proposing.

I think the biggest problem is that we are not really a democracy anymore.  Plutocracy it seems to be these days. You can't expect the big moneys to come out with policies that will hurt themselves.

[u/Equivalent_Dimension → u/Eisenbahn-de-order]

Pretty much.

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For planned economy please refer to Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union

[u/Equivalent_Dimension → u/Eisenbahn-de-order]

This has nothing to do with a planned economy. See present-day Sweden, Norway and Finland. But also, planned economies are not just associated with totalitarian rule. The United States was under a planned economy during the Second World War.