Some friends and I were talking about the feasibility of that earlier today.
It's possible, assuming that you never need to use your phone as an MFA method, never need to scan a QR code, or never need to use an app for something because they lack a web version.
Being the only G7 country unable to perform proton beam treatments isn't exactly a point of pride.
There is something to be said about self reliance and independence, but I don't have the data to know if that's actually a problem. Until I have that, I'll give the government the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the cost/difficulty of comprehensive healthcare.
For example:
Would it cost more than $200M to spin up a program like that?
How long would it take to train enough prople and acquire the equipment to make the program worth it?
How many years would it take before we started to see a return on that investment?
Honestly, this is reasonable. $200M is basically loose change in the couch as far as national budgets are concerned.
If we don't have the technology or the expertise to perform the procedure here, I have no problems as a taxpayer paying about $10/year to let people get those procedures done elsewhere.
University of Alberta constitutional law professor Eric Adams said Friday it's not clear what Alberta is seeking through legislation, given the Constitution already grants provinces some control over implementing agreements that involve areas of provincial jurisdiction.
She's not seeking anything from this. This is the Alberta separation referendum all over again. Things are being run into the ground and she needs to keep people talking about something because she's increasingly unpopular now that Trudeau can't be blamed for their problems.
The democrats just need to run on a platform of “I’m not trump” to win the “left” vote and run a campaign of restoring government services in red states.
This has been proven to be false. Twice within the last decade even
This was exactly my point. Money is real because having a common item that everyone agrees is valuable, which can be used to trade for goods and services universally is a boon for society.
Functionally, it doesn't matter if money is just some special paper, or a handful of metal discs or some number displayed on a computer screen, even if those things are technically worthless without people to ascribe value onto them.
If there isnt enough money moving in circulation, it typically means that people are saving it for hardship rather than spending, which is in turn a sure sign of a poor economy.
The rich assholes at the top have been able to basically trust that smarter people will handle policies to prevent a major depression. Anyone that was old enough to remember the last one is dead now. Anyone that lives quarter to quarter doesn't care about market conditions 90 years ago.
This is only true in the abstract. Yes, you are technically correct. Money only has value because a large enough group of people agree that it does.
But money is a shared token that describes the value of someone's time and effort which can be exchanged for goods and services. It's a common thing that can be bartered that everyone will accept. It's an incredibly useful thing for a society to have.
Simply replace it with knowledge of other obscure spiders' men.
Like Toei Spider-Man who was a regular motorcyclist who got a special armband from an alien from planet Spider that lets him transform into "The emissary of hell, Spider-Man". He then uses his newfound powers to stop The Iron Cross Army from blowing up the earth with the help of his giant robot Leopardon.
If you leave your cart in a parking space, you're sub-human
You're passible if you take it to the corral
But a truly good human will stack the carts into proper rows if the carts are loose in the corral