Astral Codex Ten

Canadian government

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Canadian government

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Canadian government is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between May 19, 2023 and May 07, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “When the Canadian government takes production from the Toronto city region”; “The Canadian government got in trouble recently for promising to make cheap housing available for all without lowering anyone’s land values”; “worked in HR for the Canadian gov’t for 10 years”. It most often appears alongside Google, United States, Atlanta.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: May 19, 2023
  • Last seen: May 07, 2024

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Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

The Question Of Separatism
May 19, 2023 · Original source
Maybe you’re a pacifist and are thinking, “well yeah, pouring money into the military is dumb, we should use the money to help people instead.” Well, Jane Jacobs has bad news for you. Welfare programs are also transactions of decline. They, too, drain the wealth away from cities. When the Canadian government takes production from the Toronto city region and redirects it to your choice of: 1) the poor province of New Brunswick; 2) unproductive retired people; 3) farmers who depend on agricultural subsidies, that’s production that Toronto could have exported to an economically dynamic city instead, fostering development in both. Poor regions on the receiving end might seem better off, but remember that they don’t develop from welfare: depending on the exact shape the aid takes, they become clearance regions, transplant economies, or artificial city regions.
Bride Of Bay Area House Party
August 17, 2023 · Original source
“The Canadian government got in trouble recently for promising to make cheap housing available for all without lowering anyone’s land values. People thought it was contradictory. But it isn’t, really. It’s just price discrimination, something businesses have understood for centuries. You need to price discriminate so that anyone who can afford older houses buys them at their existing price, and anyone who can’t buys new houses for much cheaper.”
Highlights From The Comments On "The Origin Of Woke"
May 07, 2024 · Original source
As someone who worked in HR for the Canadian gov't for 10 years, this book touched me deeply . . . Although thinking about it more, we do have explicit quotas (called targets) and that didn't save us from anything. Although so much of our culture is taken from America, maybe there was no escaping it