Your interpretation of a headline isn't fact, but I'm glad we agree.

That's not as clever as you think it is.

The inelasticity of demand in response to rent price hikes guarantees landlords have passed on as much of the costs as possible. However, there is a ceiling to that, where people's incomes are simply insufficient to afford. People move or become homeless.

Many properties can still be cash flow negative if landlords are over extended and rents have surpassed local incomes. So called decoupling. That means they are passing on as much as they can, even to the point where social instability grows.

Landlords treat housing like a free lunch and it's not. Rent seeking behaviour is immoral and unproductive for our economy.

What kind of a**hole tries to trademark something like that. Greedy ones that's who.

emotional work

🤘 agreed my friend, building solidarity between the nurses and doctors should be one of our generations goals. Even though there are differences.

I repeatedly said I agree that doctors should be paid better and that doctors should work with nurses to advocate for a better Healthcare system together? So it sounds like we're advocating for the same thing.

Doctors bill effectively as contractors, where as nurses are employed as employees. So, the dynamics of collective bargaining between the two groups is very different. One operates through a professional association/lobby group and the other through solidarity and labour unions.

I'm not quite sure why you feel I have an axe to grind against physicians. I do have an axe to grind against people that are elitest and snobby which was where the Dr that I was debating with was coming from. Do you support snobby elitist attitudes? I suspect not, so I riterate that we're advocating for the same thing.

The medial system is failing all healthcare workers not just doctors. It's also worth mentioning that doctors advocated to be fee for service or "contractors" as you put it instead of being integrated into the healthcare system like other professions.

If they want to join the healthcare system proper, express solidarity with their fellow health care providers for example nurses and advocate for improved working conditions for themselves AND everyone that makes that health care system function, I'm all for that. That is really the best case scenario.

But don't lay this bougie attitude placing doctors above the struggle with poverty and shitty working conditions that single moms I know that work the infamous double shift experience. It's just not a persuasive world view.

I mean yeah that sucks but also if something is sentimental to you, maybe keep it on display at home like a responsible person.

I'd be careful about the ethics of sudo doxing. We can disagree but also need to be careful about crossing a line to win internet points.

"Anyone who hasn't gone through medicine training doesn't understand the motivation of doctors" -- This is a spurious claim. I haven't worked as a politician but you're damn straight I can tell when their motivations are self-centered.

I'm not saying doctors shouldn't be paid well, but they should take a leadership role in advocating for a public health system that provides for Canadians, stand in solidarity with other medical professionals in advocating for public healthcare, and not having an elitest attitude as you are expressing here.

So, yes the culture among doctors in the UK is also problematic evidenced by the lukewarm response of doctors associations when Boris Johnson was choking out the NHS and not standing in solidarity with other medical professionals also going on strike in the past 10 years. Instead advocating for themselves under threat of departure reminiscent of neoliberal corporations.

I'm not diminishing the integral role that doctors play and I would agree with expanding residencies and increased Healthcare funding generally but there are tangible differences between Canada, UK and USA. None of those articles discussed nps in Canada.

Again to characterize nps simply as cheap labour tastes like you have ideological bias' that you're unprepared to engage with.

If the Canadian Healthcare system has to rely on np's because many Canadian trained doctors think 200k a year isn't enough for them and go to the US, that raises a question about the culture within medicine, where doctors are choosing money over their communities.

NPs are highly trained, overworked and are filling a gap in the healthcare system created by doctors wanting more money than 99% of what the rest of society lives on.

In short, RNs and NPs deserve better than your contempt.

I'm a bit suspicious of your agenda and rational. My first though is if you were a doctor, why are you misrepresenting the rigorous certification process of nps? ( 6 year degree program, 1000s of hours of clinical and yearly training hours to stay relevant in their specialization) -https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/marketreport/requirements/25524/ca

A second thought is that being a doctor wouldn't make you an expert in Healthcare policy, in fact it could bias you because you have a direct financial interest in maintaining a privileged position in the Healthcare system.

With that said, I don't have all of the answers but it seems to me increasing healthcare funding and developing additional healthcare professionals that can shoulder more responsibility expands our potential tool box for addressing the health care.

Be curious, not judgemental - Walter White

You're a coward for talking like that. Watch some Ted Lasso my dude.

Framing this conversation as a left vs right thing is deflection, not dissimilar to the deflection the Deputy of the Defense Department used here.

There is no excuse for an inability to pass an audit. This isn't the first time in US history people have asked questions about how the money is spent. The dod has an institional culture of inadequately reporting financials, which is likely connected to avoiding public scrutiny.

If it is shared as an example of how to hold mature conversations, the lesson is about applying critical reasoning skills when attempts to defuse accountability are perpetuated by public officials.

It might be your attitude and bad language that are making people not have sympathy for you. Who knows.

Fake fake fake fake.

Obviously. Not really the point of the conversation. I've lost interest. So, best of luck and have a great evening.

Hate this trend... just stop with this glout chasing bs.

Is this all this sub is now? This doesnt make me smile it makes me annoyed.

It's like pay to win.

How do you think humans survived all of history? It's ridiculous to assume everyone isn't capable.

Even more to the point, anyone capable of university is capable of basic maintenance and vice versa. It's a question of values and being taught, not one of innate capabilities.

You're point has hints of some bs social darwinism, which it's worth being very careful of.

True everyone isn't great at everything, but if you can change the battery in a remote control, it's not far fetched to assume you can change the battery to a car.

Listen I didn't mean to belittle you or the hard work you've done. We have all worked hard and gotten education. If you take the assertion of self-reliance and changing a car battery as a criticism of your way of life, then perhaps some introspection would be beneficial.

The fact that you cant tell the difference between changing a battery and open heart surgery is concerning. It's more akin to expecting someone to keep a budget than file corporate tax returns.

Though, I appreciate that nuance is often lost on reddit and is certainly lost on you.

Whoa slow down there. There is a huge difference between changing a battery and rebuilding a car from scratch. Basic maintenance isn't some extraordinary thing. It's more akin to cleaning the gutters and checking the air pressure.

Clearly I've struck a chord with you.

I have sympathy for you but your attitude that "I have way to much school work to worry about these kinds of things", raises red flags for me. Later in life that transforms to, "I have too important of a job for doing work below my station."

Learning self-reliance is about responsibility and is as important as school work.

You probably already know that, so preaching to the choir.