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[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a good thing we're talking about Canada then.

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Which province is that? The only province I can find with a tipped minimum wage is Quebec and both of their minimum wages are lower than anything you said.

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

Quebec is the only province that has a lower minimum wage for tipped workers at 80%. Everywhere else, a server at a sit-down restaurant you're expected to tip is making the same as a server at a fast food restaurant that you're not expected to tip.

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm not for mass deportation, but if you're an immigrant yourself and you're calling for this I think you should set a good example and take off.

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Back to work orders need to be paired with firing the entire leadership for failing to negotiate if it's a crown corp or government entity, or crippling fines if it's a private company. The way things have been going there's absolutely no incentive for an "essential service" employer to negotiate at all, let alone in good faith.

And in case there are any small time CEOs reading this, you could argue the status quo is unfair to any business that isn't massive enough for the government to step in.

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I guess I didn't emphasize the end of my post enough, I completely agree.

The difference in lifestyle of someone with a net worth of $1000 or $1m could just be that one of them owns their own house and the other rents. Someone with $1b has absolutely nothing in common with either of the other two, they could probably spend 90% of their life savings and not have a noticeable change in their lifestyle. The guy with a million is still going to think about a couple thousand dollar purchase, and the guy with a thousand doesn't really have a choice.

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Millionaires seem pretty reasonable, its not surprising for someone who's presumably had a decades long career to own a house and a bit of savings. If we're being generous the difference between a billionaire and a millionaire is the same as the difference between a millionaire and someone living in the street, in reality the difference is about a billion dollars.

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it already be a privacy concern if you're currently recording people? How would this be any different than footage of someone driving into the side of your bus?

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reading the list it looks like they just looked up Call of Duty and Battlefield and copied everything into alphabetical order. I wouldn't be surprised if the next round includes some fictional guns.

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As much as that would be satisfying to the postal workers, I don't think it would really solve a whole lot.

I am completely against back to work legislation but I do assume that's where we're headed, I think the best case scenario there is that it's paired with the entire top level leadership being fired for letting it get to this point. General public gets their service back, cupw gets a deal sooner, and it makes the union membership at large confident that back to work legislation comes with consequences for the employer.

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

Are you using a satellite phone or something unusual? If you're on a "big 3" network there are definitely better plans than that.

[–] Someone@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Whatever they're doing (or not doing?) now seems to be working. We may be paying more than other countries but I can say my phone bill is lower than it's ever been since the beginning of the smartphone age and I'm getting way more for those dollars too.

Edit: that being said, I do hear of people paying close to $100 for a phone plan. I don't know how they just go along with that or what value they think they're getting but it's definitely not necessary to spend that much these days.

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