•  EhForumUser   ( @EhForumUser@lemmy.ca ) 
            2•10 months ago

            In a few countries the politicians are in control, but most countries put the control of the hands of the populace. The politicians are hired only as employees to carry out the wishes of the populace. Canada is one such country. As always, it’s not the employee’s fault when someone goes wrong, it’s management’s fault. And, indeed, management trying to pass the buck to the lowly employee is a sure sign of bad management. Hiring another worker to act under the same bad management will yield the same results. In fact, you know this to be true because we in Canada replace the workers every approximately four years, yet keep seeing the same problems over and over. The only solution is for management to get their shit together – but are they capable?

          •  Lynda   ( @LHookham@c.im ) 
            2•10 months ago

            @argv_minus_one

            I am not an economist. So this is my humble opinion. We chose to live in a capitalist system. Inflation, amongst other issues, is a problem with this system. We fail to vote for politicians who will regulate this system. It seems to me it is the voters who chose the system, it’s regulation and the politicians and policies that influence the system.

            •  argv_minus_one   ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 
              2•10 months ago

              No system other than capitalism has ever been even remotely successful, unfortunately. But we still have to carefully regulate it, lest we be strangled by the invisible hand of the non-free market.

              So yeah, the real incompetence was inside us all along. Inside right-wing voters, to be precise.

            •  EhForumUser   ( @EhForumUser@lemmy.ca ) 
              1•10 months ago

              We chose to live in a capitalist system. Inflation, amongst other issues, is a problem with this system.

              Inflation is merely observance of people believing that a currency has become less valuable than in the past. In what way is that a problem of capitalism? Currency is not a feature of capitalism, nor is assigning value to something a feature of capitalism.

              Perhaps you mistyped ‘currency’ when you wrote ‘capitalist’? Autocorrect can be a harsh mistress. It is true that we live in a currency system.

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    2•10 months ago

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    Inside, students, parents and community members were greeted by a spread of second-hand clothes, backpacks, shoes, boots and books.

    Queen Elizabeth School was hosting its first-ever back-to-school shop, an initiative spearheaded by vice-principal Kyle Bishop and the owner of a local consignment store in nearby Riverview, N.B., called Ready, Set, Grow.

    As inflation continues to put pressure on the cost of just about everything — from food to clothes to school supplies — Canadians across the country are preparing for the back-to-school season by turning to second-hand options as a way to save money.

    A line snaked outside the entrance to the Cape Breton Regional Library in Sydney, N.S., one morning last week, as the branch hosted its first kids’ “clothing swap” — where a donation gets you a shopping voucher.

    Jannette Vusich, assistant regional program co-ordinator at the library, previously organized two adult clothing swaps thanks to demand from patrons.

    Thrifting has become trendy, especially among teenagers, she said, and people are generally looking for more sustainable alternatives to fast fashion — where cheap clothes are mass produced quickly and then discarded.

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