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Canada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80%
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this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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I respectfully disagree. The middle class is not perfect, but the issue here is the ruling class
How are you (OP) blaming the "middle" class? What could you suggest nurses, teachers, fire fighters, etc do to solve the problem of wealth inequality?
I genuinely want to know because it seems to me that we control nothing and have no excess to give.
Stop performing those services. En mass.
...so let people die, stop caring for our neighbours, allow ignorance and illiteracy to fester. Seems extreme and misplaced.
A better, less-nihilistic approach might be: stop buying things, cancel subscriptions, sell dividend-paying stocks, etc. Or even better: a general strike.
Wait, what difference does it make whether the stocks pay dividends or not?
A general strike is stopping doing those services en masse.
Yes, but it includes the whole population rather than a narrow sub-section. It would also send a much stronger message.
See what happens when CEOs and politicians need to wipe their own asses.
You get that they'll just de-professionalize those roles and let untrained, unskilled hacks and quacks loose on the general populace, right? I mean you want to have your kids taught by some goof quoting Grok, and your grandma getting her life saving treatment from Bobby Kennedy approved witch-doctors that's where you end up if the professionals all decide to quit En Masse.
What's going on in schools isn't much better.
Lol, too true 😁
Who suffers the most? The vulnerable