'We can no longer build what people can afford' (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 4 days ago by Worstdriver@lemmy.world to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Incorrect. Governments and corporation all have leaders who have steered us here, deliberately.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 6 points 4 days ago

You can decide to make a left turn without knowing whether you're going to end up in Kamloops or Kapuskasing by doing so. That's the level of steering that's going on: no one is looking past, at most, the next couple of intersections, and the GPS is on the fritz.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Deliberately, definitely not. Like OP said, why would anyone want this?

There's leaders, but there's a lot of leaders, they have interests at odds with each other, and none of them have a position that can't be lost one way or the other (even dictators fear a coup). In the end, they end up part of the system, not controlling it.