• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        edit-2
        16 days ago

        Hell yeah. I would also hope as many engineers as possible resign from SpaceX, Tesla and the Boring Company, but sadly too many of them probably a) have no problem with their boss’s ethics or b) are financially stressed and are afraid to do so, or c) are addicted to the lifestyle enabled by their pay grade.

        The biggest trick capitalism pulled on all of us is keeping wages ‘not too low, not too high’ so we are all not starving, yet afraid to walk away from our jobs.

        • Bayesian@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          edit-2
          16 days ago

          H1-B visas. They keep working there because they don’t want to leave the US. Often they have entire lives and family in the US and have not simply been there for a few short years.

          • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            edit-2
            16 days ago

            Ah, yes I forgot that angle – that period of indentured servitude (slavery) for the hope of being allowed to participate in the illusion of “The American Dream” …

    • ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      16 days ago

      IMO all government at every level should be mandated to support local and/or Canadian first when possible. I don’t why an entity that serves the people can’t also be directly supporting those they serve instead of putting that money into other countries - just seems backasswards to me.

      • moonbunny@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        16 days ago

        I believe the issue would lie with the pressure for government procurements to always go for the lowest cost bidder possible, which would be more difficult for local and Canada-first companies to compete.

        While I believe that procurements should strongly prefer local/Canada-first companies, it would come at a price and provide an opportunity for one political party to cry foul over “wasteful government spending”.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    39
    ·
    16 days ago

    Amazon l’ont bien mérité après ils ont fermé les entrepôts syndiqués.

    Amazon deserves it after they closed unionized warehouses.

    • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      15 days ago

      Supposement que stait deja planifié avant les syndicats. Apparement que meme quand on avait des entrepots ici, tout se faisais livrer se l’ontario anyway.

  • SabinStargem@lemmings.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    27
    ·
    16 days ago

    Good call. The odds of Bezos of being part of Vichy America’s cabal is high. A man who prefers their deliveryfolk to piss in bottles and break their bodies in warehouses, is pretty likely to support a war machine that assaults Canada.

    It will be important for Canada to divorce itself from as many Vichy services and goods as possible.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      16 days ago

      Vichy America has a ring to it.

      I mean, if we want to be really accurate, it’s more like Nationalist Spain or Mussolini’s Italy, but people don’t history enough for that to make sense rhetorically.

      • SabinStargem@lemmings.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        16 days ago

        We could use a better name, but for now it will have to do. I expect that we will have a civil war down the line, and a more suitable name will arise. Of course, Facist America would still call itself America. Hm. We could call it “Famica”?

        Feel free to toss names into the hat.

  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    16 days ago

    By the day I wish more and more I had snuck into CA in 2000 before it became more or less impossible

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      16 days ago

      Hopefully the next year or so is going to see changes that make it easy for the good - and especially the vulnerable - Americans to come up here. Fleeing Americans have been our historical source of population, after all.

      • CaramelJalapeño@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        15 days ago

        Well, get ready for a bump! If it wasn’t so damn cold up there I’d probably be one of them. I’m gonna hafta head south instead.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          14 days ago

          I mean, we have Vancouver that’s cold in more of a damp way than an icy way, I guess. Unfortunately it costs way more too.