LOL when you put it that way I don't feel as poor, lol okay maybe just a little.

Oh for sure there's places that rival European and US in terms of decadence and shit but there's also a lot of shit holes too, and the in-between, like any place it takes all sorts, we all inherited the fiat systems + "democracies" wealth distribution its all applied on various scales.

That's what I've been saying, the interference is only profitable for a select few and is sold on the basis of "doing good" and it "feels" good especially for so-called intellectuals. Just like giving a poor person a million bucks and leaving them to their own devices, they'll be broke pretty soon as they have never needed to navigate the pitfalls of wealth. If I strip a rich man of all his money his not going to be a millionaire in his life again because his never had to navigate the pitfalls of poverty.

I don't like this we know what's best for you story, I hate when middle-class people say shit like oh all the poor need to do is get a job, look at me. First of all, you've been middle class so long you have no idea what the trade-offs of being poor is like its not a binary situation, so stop thinking everything is a quick fix.

I am just thumb sucking here but it basically sounds like legislation and political affiliations is their resource. If I look at other countries here, especially my own, we have 11 official languages, but different provinces aren't exactly mandating different rules. Let's say tomorrow Quebec does sign, are they going to be enforcing of french they way they do now, probably not, English people will come in arbitrage their workforce down with efficiency, reduce wages and they'll face more competition. That's probably only one thing I know but like you say transport and logistics across the province would become more efficient, they'd have less bargaining power and so they need to also bend the knee more often.

To me, it sounds like a protectionist racket. It's like the parent that gives in to the child all the time, you get a spoilt brat after they see that it works. Until the hand that feeds them closes, nothing will change, there's no incentive.

Oh you should see how bad it is here like we had 2 power stations that were built by the French, it cost billions and they don't work. We spent billions on getting trains from China, they don't fit on our rails.

We spent billions on new coal mines, the Indian owners of that company are long gone but all that robbery is done under the guise of "we\re creating jobs" never mind many of them are dig a hole on money and fill it by friday jobs.

We have raging blackouts here and they did an audit on our power stations and they say we overstaffed by 60% compared to international standards of the same size and still can't get the shit right