Labor is too expensive for US manufacturing without significant price increases, and given those price increases consumers are purchasing fewer total goods because they simply can’t afford more. Too much of their income is going to housing and food costs, neither of which are highly reliant on manufacturing jobs. Consumer spending in dollars may be up, but total goods consumed has to be down at this point.

A) Fuck Amazon B) Fuck the US C) The deals are absolutely terrible, why the fuck would it encourage me to buy anything?

Allowing light or limited plans means that they don’t have the revenue to cover the costs.

The actual usage on the network is functionally irrelevant at this point, providers don’t save any money if people don’t use their phones as much these days. It’s almost all fixed costs which means that plans are essentially just fixed at this point too. Price points still exist only for advertising and marketing purposes, the companies are totally satisfied just getting everyone to a minimum value. The whole industry has just become a commodity but with 100% fixed costs.

It’s not like they’re raking in stupid profits either, TELUS only had a net income of around 5% of their revenue last year.

Population density isn’t a rural issue, it’s a fixed costs issue.

The companies are required to maintain a larger total network of towers and everyone has to pay for that, which means city users are subsidizing rural networks quite significantly.

I’m not saying the Big 3 aren’t taking advantage of the situation, but they do have a legitimate issue.

Parents tend to be impacted when their children die. Dying themselves is often preferable.

He was obviously referring to the adults in the state, not the children.

If you’re going to be in the West for 3 weeks, make sure you get over to Vancouver Island for a few days. The ferry with a car is pretty expensive, around $100 each way, but the ferry ride itself is beautiful and then island has lots of wonderful places to visit from the City of Victoria at the south end with the BC Legislature, Empress Hotel, Butchart Gardens, etc. then you can take a trip up to some pretty spectacular locations in the mid-island like Cathedral Grove (Giant Douglas Fir Trees) and Coombs Market, and then maybe into Tofino (Expensive accommodations but amazing surfing and ocean beaches)

Happy Canada Day.

/furiously cleans house before guests arrive

WEALREADY HAVE TRADE DEALS WITH EVERY COUNTRY

We don’t rip them all up when we change prime ministers or something equally as stupid

Cannot get a trade with any country? We already have trade agreements with almost every country. The only thing that has changed recently is the US.

What kind of propaganda bullshit are you strung out on?

Residential buildings that Hezbollah intentionally set up a headquarters in the basement of.

Thats already a war crime by Hezbollah.