Makes you wonder why everyone doesn't incorporate, thus allowing every single one of us to laugh all the way to the bank. Perhaps we fear success?

Sure, but do all Corporate sectors get dozens of billions in direct and indirect subsidies year after year?

Sometimes they make a new hole!

Job losses in oil and gas is fine and everyone involved should keep that in mind. Colleges and universities should be steering stem kids out of pero-engineering, and tradeschools should be pointing people away from fuckin Fort McMurray. In Ontario though there are still loads of millwrights/plumbers/electricians being told that they can go work 5 years in the oil patch then come back home, buy a house and put their feet up.

is good day to be on fediverse

Agreed, the level of concentration in grocery distribution is worse than the telecoms. At this point they need to be broken up and run as non-profits!

That's hilarious. The formal definition of shortage is a situation where an external mechanism, such as government intervention, prevents price from rising. This is literally looking to create a shortage (a real shortage, not the pretend kind we talk about when it comes to labour) of food and energy.