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I'm very curious about the avg cost of say a sandwich vs min wage over the last half century.
I stopped at a local sandwich shop yesterday, not particularly fancy, nothing special, no meat in it or anything super costly. Just maybe slightly above average tasting toasted sandwich. It was good, maybe a tad too sweet but satisfying.
After tax and tip it cost about an hour at Ontario's minimum wage.
I'm curious what the cost of prepped food in relation to min wage has been historically. When I actually stopped to think about it, it seems really ridiculous that a single sandwich was an hour of top line wages.
Was this always the case, is this just a ridiculously expensive shop (I know I'm downtown near transit), or is this part of the artificial inflation going on?
What's a sandwich near you cost in terms of hours of work at min wage?
I was born and raised in Southwestern Ontario. I carry a SW ON accent. In the pre zoom days, colleagues thought I was a blond girl when they only heard my voice on a conf call and didn't see my face. They would later be shocked when they finally met me. (They admitted this to me).
No matter where I travel in Canada, some variation of this conversation inevitably takes place (this just happened).
Them: "where are you from?"
Me: "Toronto"
Them: "whereabouts in China?"
🙄🙄🙄🙄
The corporate oligarchs are reminding us again and again that they will not stop murdering us. If we have a problem with mass murder, that is just too bad. They don't care how many dead bodies there are in the #ClimateCollapse.
The only thing that will stop them is complete societal overthrow.
They are forcing us closer and closer to that day. Hungry peasants will overthrow an empire. Always give people a way out. If you give us the choice between death and a fight, you will get a fight to the death.
The oil men are forcing our hands into a fight to the death.
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suncor-oil-production-guilbeault-cap-emissions-1.6950886
Our fundamental problem is capitalism.
As an environmentalist, I tend not to buy things that I don't need. My daughter knows better than to ask for lemonade at the fair because it'll come in plastic. We brought water bottles for a reason. She can drink that perfectly fine.
She knows I get annoyed at grandma buying all that plastic trash from the dollar store because it gets played with a few days and turn into landfill.
This behaviour is terrible for the economy. The big businesses need infinite economic growth. They need us to buy 3% more trash a year. We have so much stuff that there are industries making legit coin storing our trash that we will realistically never use again. We have entire sectors that make a lot of money off of throwing out our trash for us.
Environmentalism means that many of these new industries will disappear very quickly. It means that fossil fuel billionaires will lose a lot of wealth very quickly.
Does this sound like a system that will change because we sent some politicians backed by rich people to a summit somewhere to talk about it?
The reality is that billionaires' wealth is at stake and they would take complete social and ecological collapse before a dent in their wealth. They want the entire ship to go down believing that they have enough flotation devices they'll come back out on top.
It's not that billionaires don't believe in climate change. They just lied to enough people to convince them of it. They plan on taking advantage of climate change eliminating a lot of the population so they have more resources for themselves.
This is nothing short of murder with a borrowed hand.
#ClimateCrisis
There's mounting evidence that the best way to "reform" police forces is just to decommission them all and then start again from scratch.
I think the thing I hate most about visiting people who live in suburbs are lawnmowers.
Honestly they are the worst. They make so much noise and you're burning fossil fuels to maintain something that is neither food, nor a cash crop. The entire idea of a lawn that needs this much resource is just beyond stupid.
At least switch to a push mower. When I visit my parents, I pull out the push mower I bought them. When neighbours see a gas powered mower out, they cross the street to avoid the noise and fumes. When they see me with my push mower, they stop to chat.
Lawnmowers are horribly antisocial and the lawn lovers don't even realize this.
Nothing says dedication to FREEEEEDUMB like demanding government authorities approve a nick name for you
This is not normal. This should not be a "new normal". This is rich people induced #ClimateCrisis
"Experts" have to contend with a history of public deception.
"Experts" told us smoking was safe. "Experts" told us fracking water was safe to drink. "Experts" told us DDT was safe.
The public has a right to be distrustful after a long history of deception. I'm not saying that this is the case, but this is the historical context in which communicators are trying to get their message across.
We have a #ClimateCrisis
Why are "progressives" tooting about Amazon prime day? Do they not understand that buying shit you don't need is part of the problem?
Why is everyone living in this alternate universe where science doesn't matter? What is wrong with people?
The fossil fuels burned for this entitled dip shit
The rich are the problem
#ClimateCrisis
The "freest country in the world".
You have the freedom to go die.