What is it with them and getting rich on betting apps! I don't know anyone who's ever gotten rich from them. I think in a week he made like 6 bucks, frig I can write a shitpost that makes no senses and probably make that, and I get to slowly multiply it by using it to vote others or simply let it inflate. We have such a golden opportunity here on Hive, I can't understand for the life of me why we don't have more participating. I think people can't wrap their heads about this place, then again they plan on retiring on a betting app, maybe that's self explanatory. 🤣

yeah, those that want to invest and have someone do all the work without wanting to learn, they better stay away from that, sounds like trouble.

The thing is, we are not really a free market, they import temporary foreign workers and pay them less undercutting everyone's wages in the process. For example (s), when we had that mad wild fire "the beast" that took out a large part of one of our northern cities, they hired a bunch of fire fighters from South Africa to come help out our fire crews and our dudes were making over $30/ hour and the South Africans were paid $10 a day for the same work in the same conditions. Their excuse was when we made a stink about it "it's 3 times more than they would earn in their home country".

Another example is produce harvesting, last summer they couldn't get their $5/h workers from South-America because of closed borders, rather than paying a Canadian worker the minimum wage ($12 to 15/hour)so the farmers decided it was better to let their fields rot and complained that their fields were rotting and the season was a complete loss while the store shelves sat empty and everyone was fighting over food and toilet paper. What a waste that was, it happened with meat processing too.

Another example is my own industry, they undercut us by getting untrained cheap labor from overseas and now none of us want to go to work after a decade of wage erosion and we just lost more a few months ago. We are contractors so we can say no we're not going to work for less and it doesn't really affect our status. except we are highly skilled, trained and require degrees because of the complex nature (welding engineer/boilermaker). If we screw up, people die or get severely injured or the plant blows up. Now the jobs are just sitting there and their scratching their heads as to why nobody wants to go work for less and carry the untrained weight since they are essentially warm bodies as we call them since they have no idea about the job or have any degrees. Leave the untrained to their own devise, they make quite a costly mess and jobs don't get done, it cost them more in the end and some are starting to find that out the hard way.

If anyone raises a stink we are suddenly racist and against foreigners when actually we just don't believe in slave labor no matter where they come from, they deserve the same wage as everyone else based on qualifications and skills. I bet if they paid them all the same as Canadians there would be no need for them suddenly. specially with the current high unemployment. It's the silliest thing ever, high unemployment and everyone is loosing their jobs but they import temporary foreign workers claiming shortages in labor force. Same in the service industry too (burger flippers, coffee shops and such). Free market? Hum...no. There is zero logic behind it, it just a numbers game and corporate greed and since they grease the govs pocket, they get to continue exploiting people while politicians spew out anti "pesky racist old stock" Canadians propaganda (as our Prime minister called us). The "fight" is artificial, so is the shortage of workers.

I like FUD, makes me laugh. I laugh even harder when it runs up the next day after a stupid article like that comes out. "replace all the mentions of Bitcoin with stocks or fiat it reads exactly the same"- totally. I'll take my funny internet money over their dying stinking garbage. When you see literally all asset classes go up at the same time, you know something don't smell right. I know, they contradict themselves in their own article, its just weird. It's dead but going up to 200k...whatever. lol

I suppose your economy depends on larger economies and their policies and foreign income, I never really thought of that. I don't get out much, I just hide in the mountains, less crazy in them darn hills! 😂