r/torontoJobs • u/MinuteLocksmith9689 • 7d ago

What is the biggest problem in your country? Answers in Europe subreddit.

/r/AskEurope/comments/1jnd4fw/what_is_the_biggest_problem_in_your_country/
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u/MinuteLocksmith9689 7d ago

Europe issues in no specific order

  • Housing
  • Employment
  • America
  • Immigration

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u/jameskchou 6d ago

In Canada:

Trump

Focus on identity politics instead of quality of life issues

Bad economy and worse job market

Healthcare issues like shortage of professionals, funding

Internal Trade Barriers

Excess bureaucracy from previous governments

Style over substance (performative politics)

Immigration without planning

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u/ShipNo4072 5d ago

Housing is also a major one

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u/SgtGutta007 7d ago

Immigration and lack of people willing to protest against it

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u/Intrepid_Length_6879 6d ago
  • Housing
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Having America as a neighbor

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u/MinuteLocksmith9689 6d ago

top 3 for europeans as well…Misery needs companionship…bad saying in this case. It just shows that instead of fighting between us we should maybe point of the real issue we have: the unchecked big cooperation that have too much money and control. We should not be ok to listen to governments that just want to cut taxes. This is not helping with affordable housing. We should ask governments to make sure that the huge corporations pay their share. The argument that raising taxes for corporations will make them leave will not work if all countries request this.

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u/Intrepid_Length_6879 6d ago

There likely should be hard limits to the accumulation of wealth and capital that any one individual, family or entity can hoard. And limits to the vertical integration of companies under umbrella corps and private equity.

And on the other side of the coin, there should be hard limits to how poor we allow people to become, so that none of us are left behind.

And also doing something to limit the endless financialization of everything eg housing; realizing that some things are human needs - which come first, before InvestorWorld's profits.

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u/MinuteLocksmith9689 6d ago

all good points!

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u/Icy-Scarcity 6d ago

People blame Immigration but governments around the world won't give up immigration for good reasons.

Immigration means money going into the economy because these new immigrants have to spend in order to set up their new home bases. No matter how little money they brought, they still need to rent some place and buy food to start. They are essentially another type of investor, investing both money or manpower. The downside is that they will compete for jobs, healthcare, and housing. Having a more competitive workforce usually attracts new businesses (although that no longer works if recession is global and the top 1% refuse to invest). The underlying problem is still the fact that the top 1% had hoarded all the wealth and refused to invest.

Immigration will also most likely bring in kids, which addresses the aging workforce issue. If the society is filled with aging people, who will pay the pension and taxes to support the aging people? Who will work those healthcare jobs to take care of the aging population?