twopi @ twopi @lemmy.ca

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I agree. At the end of the day it's a business. But if two companies offer similar products go with the employee owned company.

The main thing about is decision making structure. Because employee or community owned stores are owned by the users. It means the end users have power over what is offered. As opposed to big box in which case it is non local non user shareholders.

If it's better for customers and workers what's the problem (from a capitalist perspective)?

Do you want to punish success?

If small businesses become successful and grow do you want to purposefully stop them?

I always ask what is the difference between a small and big business and nobody gives a good answer.

Small business is always used as a shield to attack workers.

Genuinely, if they don't offer a innovative product, what's the point of "small business"? What's the point of a "small business" barber/retail store/grocer/etc. besides better prices?

When does a "small business" become a "big business"? And should we stop that from happening?

It seems to me that "small business" is just entitled people. If those same people became a "big business" they would want to crush their competition (i.e. "small business") look at Bill Gates/Steve Jobs against IBM.

The only thing that "small business" people want is for them to be the owner of a "big business". That's it.

If you actually care about distribution of ownership and wealth. You'd advocate for co-operatives, ESOPs and distributed ownership structures. Otherwise I don't care.

I literally don't care if something is owned by a small or big business. The obsession of small businesses is absolutely stupid. I only care if prices are low and wages are high. If that means only "big businesses" can provide that because of economies of scale, than good for them, companies should be rewarded for doing that.

If "small businesses" want to compete they should provide equity, there's literally nothing stopping that from happening.

There's a local barber shop that I go to and in my province the min wage was increased 50% while the prices have climbed 80% since I started going to them. But guess what, there still the best price/service wise so I go to them. The chains cost more than double plus taxes. And a lot of the local neighboirhood goes to them.

The only business that complain about labour laws especially laws like this that put heavier burden on larger companies are poorly run companies.

I see good business treating people good so when things like this comes up it shows me that business people will always push against progress.

Then never in your life go to a fast food joint at 10 am on a Tuesday.

In terms of pure dollar amount, it should by adjusted by PPP. It should be a wage to live off of. I'm in engineering, a few years into my career, I am well paid but I should be paid more, relative to CoL. I should be doing very well even if I have a family not doing well because I don't have one.

Why isn't the CRTC investigating this themselves? If they're not. What's the point of them then?

I need something more reputable than Fraser Think Tank honestly. But I do agree Canada has lower Capital intensity than the USA.

Just get rid of the nonsense and learn to be civilized you heathen! I think it's time for Europe to colonize America to civilize them again /s

All ballots are counted on election day here. I know because I was a Poll Clerk in an election. The Deputy Returning Officer (person in charge of the polling station) has final say on same day registration and then all ballots cast are counted on election day.

Or better yet be like Colorado with automatic registration.

Looking at this picture from wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCC%E2%80%93Clark_station#/media/File%3AVCC-Clark_Station_Platform.jpg

I absolutely agree with your statement.

From this wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCC%E2%80%93Clark_station

Who is the guy you're talking about?

That's great for Colorado. I like automatic registration better. No need to worry about ID or forms.

You guys have "National Voter Registration Day" but it's not a public holiday? Wow! In Canada, we have same day voter registration and it helps a lot!

May you please update us with how this is going?

Are there any stores in Ontario selling this?

Wikipedia says Save on Foods is only in Western Canada:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save-On-Foods

For those not in the know:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39lPHHvkzYg

Which grocery store?

Correct. They'd be a Major non-NATO ally:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_non-NATO_ally

On a close relationship like Japan and Republic of Korea

But other than that, my point still stands.

Most people don't understand that both People's Republic of China (“China”) and Republic of China (“Taiwan”) claim the same borders and territory and pretend “Taiwan” is being opressed.

I am sure if the ROC defeated PRC in the civil war the issues of Tibet, the strait and the South China Sea would be just given to China because China would be a US ally and NATO member along side being a permanent UN security seat member

Absolutely agree INTERAC should be nationalized. This is why I like CBDCs it's because we'll have the opportunity to further strengthen public sovereignty and interests in our own currency.

Thanks for the transparency and good luck!

You need to have base power and either be nuclear or hydro and hydro is heavily dependant on the environment. So we should invest in both

For example Ontario is 60% nuclear, 20% hydro, 9% renewables and 11% gas about. So we should invest in both to eliminate natural gas.

Wow... 6 upvotes and 6 downvotes...