Arkouda

While this idea has good intentions, the "privileged savior" is a toxic one. It assumes that your help would be accepted, appreciated, and necessary to "do things right". It also assumes that you wouldn't fall in line with the majority for your own safety, which I am willing to bet is more likely than not given the measures taken against those who supported those movements.

I got it pretty bad being born in 1989 because of my ancestry, and I cannot imagine going through what my Dads generation went through. The only people I see taking this deal likely exist in a position of great privilege and excess because they are the only ones who may improve their conditions by going backwards.

The trick to creating a bigger more noticeable digital economy in Canada is not taxing the digital services of other countries but funding education programs in Tech. Considering the absurd amount of free resources, compiling them all and having a few experts teach the material in online courses would be cost effective and work to promote more Canadians learning the required skills to build our own digital economy instead of relying on the tools and taxation of others.

While I am not happy about the dropping of the DST I can also see why. I don't see it as appeasing him, I see it as buying time while we hammer out the other things being worked on. We are unfortunately not in the best position to play hardball, and the money the DST was going to bring in would be immediately offset by the tariffs that were being planned for all Canadian goods in retaliation.

Not quite true, I think. Thanks to education, literacy, better nutrition, we have been nearing the level where the old ways are nowheres -nearly- as crude, unthinking and hurtful as they were for 5900 of those years. All the scamming has been laid out for everyone to see. And now, we get to choose.

You believe at about 1925 we shifted from "crude, unthinking, and hurtful" old ways and have made substantial progress in the last 100 years away from excessive resource consumption, constant war, and constant injustice for the majority of people living in the world today?

Sure, but we don’t “need” anything above our basic survival cost, let’s go live on the Savannah and hunt our food again.

Straw man detected.

I am not going to argue with you about rich people arguing whether or not they should pay more taxes.

Fuck them for sitting on their money while people starve.

All we have is technological advances. As a civilization I would argue that we have made no progress, and we simply repeat histories of feast/famine, war/peace, justice/injustice because we are stupid animals.

One would think after approximately 6000 years of documented history we would have worked the bugs out of this whole "civilization" thing if we were truly intelligent or making progress.

I argue for the audience for two reasons:

1. The subjective experience for every individual will be different with any form of art.

2. The audience is what determines if something is "art", so without the audience the creator isn't producing "art".

How are you defining Caucasian?

In the current situation yes. The point is we need to fix it so one doesn't need excessive capital to simply retire, and the rich begging to be taxed more can do a lot on their own to help without the Government.

I don't disagree, and the topic is "Millionaires who want to be taxed more". My point on that topic: Do something good while you wait and push for more taxation.