In your Utopia, which laughlingly idolizes individualism, most people are entirely dependent upon corporations for every facet of their survival. Individual self-expression is actively discouraged in favour of conformity (patriotism, not being un-American).
I'd rather rely on thousands of different and competing corporations, large and small (not to mention millions of small businesses), for a broad array of choices than to rely on a central government which is only capable of doling out shit products and shit services on a take-it-or-lump-it basis. Most government bureaucrats are incapable of innovation. You want a place to live? Here's your standard-issue box apartment to live in. Don't like it? Tough shit.
In your Utopia millions of Americans face extreme poverty and deprivation
"Extreme poverty" is the life Ms. Sven's aunt lived in (see above)...or my dad...or Ms. Sven's mother...or Ms. Sven's dad. Very few live in "extreme poverty" in either Canada or America today. "Extreme poverty" is living on $2 [b][i]per day[/i][/b] or less (like about 2 [i]billion[/i] people on this earth live in today). How many Canadians or Americans are living like that? Instead, here on babble, we have people wailing and gnashing their teeth that everyone isn't making at least $16 [i][b]per hour[/i][/b]...while the [b]truly poor[/b] in this world suffer real deprivation.
Many here laud the fact that Cubans live on $4,500 per year in per capita income (which is not much more than a couple of bucks an hour). How many Canadians and Americans are clamoring to go live in that kind of place? In contrast, how many Cubans would love to live in Canada or America...but are prevented from doing so by their "benevolent" and "all-knowing" central, one-party government?
Yet, you seem to look at Canada and America as being hells on earth...because everyone is not "equal". Fuck equality. I'll take freedom (and inequality) over equality (and slavery) any day of the week.
It's laughably middle-class, thumb-up-the-ass Leftist angst to complain about the CBC when in a country like Cuba, which many on the Left laud as Utopia-on-Earth, has only state-run media.
I can understand why you feel that you're a "frustrated mess". You want everyone to conform to your idea of how the world should run...yet most people are not interested in that kind of "utopia" in either Canada or America. I'm sure that's very frustrating.
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