We don’t use grades, it’s too judgey and might hurt fee-fees. Everyone passes with participation trophies.

And then we wonder why there are so many morons.

People in the U.S. are responsible for their government. They should be shutting the country down with strikes and riots until the fascist morons in charge are hanging by their own entrails.

So if you’re so cozy with the U.S., why care about selling them some equipment?

I’m happy for Canadians to be even more dissuaded from going to the U.S.

Well, these are going to ICE. It’s not like the U.S. couldn’t get them elsewhere. And of course, now Canada knows the weakness of the units!

How does this affect the wellbeing of people in Canada (except to provide them with jobs?)

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I wish. But no, they’ll support Trump Jr for King.

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And trying to argue this is 36.

That larger feedback loop is bad yes, but it’s mostly independent of the resources and services that people need and provide as part of normal life. Yes rich people also use more non-luxury items, but the working class also buy some luxury items, which I suspect more than offsets that since there are so many more of the working class.
I’m not sure what commodities you are talking about that get destroyed. I know some agriculture gets wasted and I understand that to be mostly a shipping issue and because of huge mostly automated farming systems, or artificial government investment for the sake of job creation. I’d be curious to know what percent of the overall economy this destruction that you mention is. Empty homes is a big problem resulting from people gaming the system for monitory profit instead of real productivity - and that’s where we need more government regulation - which is actually happening now in a number of North American cities.
Look, I’m not saying capitalism is so great. But just that the billionaires raking in more and more isn’t inherently a problem - unless they also controll the government so that there can’t be meaningful regulations. Of course, that’s about where we are now in the U.S., and as soon as we are no longer effectively a democracy and the government no longer adjusts rules to ensure the working class gets enough benefits of the productivity, then it will all fall apart and those billionaires and politicians will end up with their heads on pikes, and rightly so.

Luxury spending is less than 1% of spending in the U.S.
To understand how it’s mostly a zero sum game, you’ve got to ignore numerical money metrics and look at real resources used by, and provided by people.

But those billionaires only can eat so much food. They may pay $300 a plate for caviar, but it’s just a bit of food. They have super fancy cars and houses, but there aren’t enough of them to ‘use up’ significant resources for those things. The money/capital they own isn’t very relevant to the zero sum system of production and consumption. Sure it’s super unfair and more so when international politics allows even more abuse. The problem with somewhere like Congo is that the government is dysfunctional and corrupt - they should be taxing the fuck out of all

Yes but that model ignores that there are a given amount of tangible value (food, shelter, products) items created and pretty much the same amount of such items are consumed. So the pool of workers (almost the entire population) is effectively working to support itself. On paper, there’s money and ownership being siphoned off more and more to a small group. But that group doesn’t use up much more proportionally of the tangible products when looked at as a percentage of the system. So the rich get richer, but that’s just a number. The reason that people don’t have enough to eat and the sir quality of life is dropping as because the system is failing to be productive enough. And that’s because the goal of making money by the billionaires is being gamed as opposed to actually promoting tangible growth. And that’s why we need further regulation - to plug the holes in the system that encourage practices that are bad for workers. Capitalism can only work if the government is still generally for the people - and that’s where we’ve run off the rails.

Says ‘you’re not even trying’ then just copies from Wikipedia.
Maybe try thinking for yourself?

Capitalism is a form of trading. It is providing a service / lending resources, for a fee. It’s part of the notion that we use money to buy and sell anything and the economy works because everyone tries to make a buck and implicitly drive efficiency for society. It certainly has got out of whack now and needs some serious regulatory fixes. But for most people, they work to get money to buy what they need and as a result, they provide services, products, etc for others to buy what they need. It goes in a circle, and we end up helping each other. Yes, the rich siphon money off the top, but they don’t really affect the use or need of resources significantly. Their billions are just a number on a computer in a bank somewhere.

Capitalism is just a way to organize work. Yeah, it’s a plenty unfair one. But we are just using money as a means to trade work for food/products/shelter/services. It ends up driving the society - getting people to make society work, and to enjoy the benefits of it.

It means by default you have to contribute to the society that you live in. And this is required in order for there to be a functional society to live in. It’s not an arbitrary rule, just a logical requirement.

Yes, possibly. It’s the same thing. Universe is expanding and depending on how fast and how much mass, it may keep expanding or reach a point and start contracting. Either way, it’s not static right now which the fudge factor was trying to artificially model.

More fringe kingmakers can be rather dangerous.
Ranked ballots would be better.

“People get a bigger slice of the … pie until the ruling class decides to take the slice away”
Isn’t that just the same with all systems?