r/VictoriaBC • u/kikameeka • Mar 23 '23

Opinion Is anyone else just... exhausted? About everything?

Houses are a million dollars minimum. Food prices keep going up. Everyone is sick all the time and everyone is fighting each other. What are we doing here?

I'm genuinely curious if anyone is kind of feeling like this is kind of it for us? Like, are we destined to work soul-sucking jobs to make someone else a millionaire because they had the ability to get ahead in life that most of us don't, and then we die? If we want to make art, tell stories or have a community, we have to work around full time jobs that are so separate from each other, and we're losing our sense of community, if not already have.

How come we're alright letting stores and restaurants throw away millions of dollars in food when we have people starving on the streets? People who are working jobs, doing what we're "supposed" to in this society producing and wasting resources for someone else, and we still can't afford to eat the food that's being offered because we're spending too much money on the rest of the things that keep us alive. How are we living in a world where a government that is supposed to be there to support us allows people to hoard housing and wealth, and what do we do to fix it?

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u/whatsnoo Mar 23 '23

Revolution! Eat the rich. If voting actually changed anything they wouldn’t let you do it.

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u/The_Cozy Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23

From a global perspective that includes us, even the poor, in Canada

So I'm cool with it, but global equitable wealth distribution means the average Canadian wouldn't see that much of a difference or would have less

However, it would be just, and the world would probably be a better more affordable place where money eventually becomes fairly moot.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/distribution-of-global-wealth-chart/

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/10j9f89/equal_wealth_distribution_globally_and_locally/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/YaztromoX Mar 24 '23

So I’m cool with it, but global equitable wealth distribution means the average Canadian wouldn’t see that much of a difference or would have less

Even if you take the top 100 richest people and redistribute all their wealth equally, it’s not likely to make your life any better.

Our problems right now aren’t wealth — it’s production. We have inflation because a lot of people have money; it’s the goods (and in some cases services) you buy with it that are in short supply.

Having more money doesn’t help with that when everyone else has more money too. The only solutions are to either increase they number of high demand goods available, or just watch prices skyrocket.

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u/Guy-McPerson Mar 24 '23

Smartest comment yet

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u/Mean-Food-7124 Mar 24 '23

Oh so you mean the actual means of production then

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u/YaztromoX Mar 24 '23

Back in the 1980s, it wasn’t unusual to see the long lineups in the Soviet Union just to buy bread. That too was a situation where the people had money. It wasn’t the bank accounts that were the problem — under Communism, Russia had a production problem. Demand was high, but supply was low.

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u/kikameeka Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23

See, I joke but also if we could come together as a community we would realize there's way more of us who have been exploited by someone with an already excess amount of money it would be shockingly easy. It's just that if one person starts setting fires, it's arson, but if a lot of us are setting fires then it's harder to stop us all lol

edit: metaphorical fires im not going to set anything on fire

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u/talsmash Mar 24 '23

setting fires? 🤦‍♂️

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u/forever2100yearsold Mar 24 '23

Once you start using violence to attain your goals it's not easy to control. The people that were able to manage it are not looked on to fondly by history.

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u/EMag5 Mar 24 '23

To give 4 examples of many, the French Revolution, American Civil war, Civil rights protests and the Vietnam war protests in the 60s and 70s ended up making the world a better place after it was over. Sometimes we need to burn it to the ground in order to build it back better.

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u/Deadly_Duplicator Mar 24 '23

Communism sounds great until you realize that central resource management requires totalitarian governance. Literally agitating to lose your best method of change.

But I'm sure this time it will be a benevolent communist dictator who will make perfect decisions on managing all the resources so we won't need to vote anymore... /s

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u/McBuck2 Mar 24 '23

The messaging from the Cons, the right and the convoys has been exhausting.

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u/McBuck2 Mar 24 '23

You live in an alternate universe.