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Fuck, I'm dumb.

If it's not indexed, more people will be covered over time, so it's not all bad.

I'm guessing both terms are vague enough, that companies can legally just lie.

It's only a "liable untruth" if someone can prove it's not true in court.

It's a good point another user also made. I'm thinking private patents that the government regularly purchases is probably more achievable. Otherwise, yeah, you'd have to employ people to estimate the value of an IP from rates of consumption, and it would be complicated

Yeah. And by that measure I've always said Alberta is underrated. In some way's it's better, in some ways it's worse, but it's not anachronistic like people seem to imagine, and property is just way cheaper. If Vancouver actually works out to the same price once you factor other things in, though, it seems awesome when I'm out there.

Yes, that would be an issue. If you had a hybrid system, markets could still decide prices, at least. Once the government is the only player things get very tricky indeed.

Except immigrants build houses. Sense this discussion looping back on itself a bit, so I'll check out if there's nothing further.

Intellectual property rights solve the problem that a market requires scarcity to work, but it goes away with something easy to copy. They solve it by creating scarcity artificially, which is dumb.

I'd like to see government subsidies instead. We could even transition into that by gradually buying up and freeing copyrights and patents. (Trademarks are kind of their own thing, because they're ideally just to explain the origin of an item)

This thread is honestly making me wonder if I should move. Vancouver is sure beautiful, I've just always assumed I couldn't afford it.

Sure. IIRC, though, this thread started with somebody blaming immigration for the crisis. It's not that, that's not how it works.

That's sure true. Do they not get as much hail out east?

Those are also dumb. We should stop zoning everything just for the sake of the environment and basic livability, even.

And then they combine a few stock ingredients together with it in one of many ways. Their marketing doesn't even bother to claim it's anything special, it's just like "here's a new, even more convoluted way to combine the exact same shit! DONG!!".

It's still hits the spot, though, and to cut them some slack my bean crunchwrap is mostly vegetables, which is more than you could say for pizza or a burger and fries.

To cut him some slack, it's hard when you start with a thesis that's not actually supported by the facts. Mashing together a bunch of tidbits without actually logically connecting them is probably what I'd end up doing too.

I don't know this guy, and I don't know why he tried this in the first place, but I'm guessing he's one of those people that will only accept a radical, even deliberately painful solution nobody else will go for.

That's like, just your opinion, man.

Seriously, this is an opinion article from a guy that wants everyone to switch to bicycles, and has a laundry list of downer anecdotes to support it. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of good my man.

Is that really all it is? I did notice CBC linked that after I posted this. I was wondering if the tornadoes and really cold temperatures make home insurers nervous or something. Then again, we have less pest issues.

I mean, it's not magic, it's economics. If you're putting in more man-hours in a competitive market, you should be getting more products out of the other end. Immigrants can plumb just as well as you, of course.

While housing costs are widely known to cost more in Canada's two largest cities, he said other goods and services cost more in Alberta — like electricity and insurance, for example.

Huh, I guess burning natural gas isn't the panacea certain people are selling it as. Not sure what the deal is with insurance, though.

The article also notes that incomes are higher, although that's bouyed up by a minority of really high earners, so it doesn't mean too much.

I stand corrected. Yeah, I hadn't actually heard that, but you'd expect it would attract immigrants. Construction unions are pretty strong in Canada, so maybe that balances it out.

You'd expect that it would have a neutral-ish impact on long-term housing supply as it is, then.

It's hard to say, because it's not the first thing you learn about somebody. If someone's dressed remotely nicely, I can instantly tell they're from the city, and I suspect it's more likely they're a liberal, but I don't really know unless it comes up.