Do you thing the US is doing the right thing by tariffing the world? Because, functionally, the tariffs and this CRTC decision are the same thing. Enjoy paying ~15% more for streaming services moving forward, because that will be the end result.
You are cheerleading direct corporate welfare for the entrenched oligarchy.
The US tariffing the world to bring back domestic manufacturing is not a dumb idea on its face.
The execution has been dumb and alienating but that is one of the few areas where it’s been baffling watching leftists flip from being anti free trade because it lets corporations siphon money and avoid regulation to suddenly being super pro free trade because Trump is against it.
Free trade is what has hollowed out North America’s manufacturing industries. Corporations have used it to effectively send money to poorer countries where labour is cheap while getting paid bonuses for “efficiencies”.
In a single country you can do things like set a minimum wage, with free trade companies can simply move manufacturing to somewhere with a lower minimum wage, pressuring governments to race to the bottom in terms of how badly they abuse their workers.
Do you thing the US is doing the right thing by tariffing the world? Because, functionally, the tariffs and this CRTC decision are the same thing. Enjoy paying ~15% more for streaming services moving forward, because that will be the end result.
You are cheerleading direct corporate welfare for the entrenched oligarchy.
The US tariffing the world to bring back domestic manufacturing is not a dumb idea on its face.
The execution has been dumb and alienating but that is one of the few areas where it’s been baffling watching leftists flip from being anti free trade because it lets corporations siphon money and avoid regulation to suddenly being super pro free trade because Trump is against it.
Free trade is what has hollowed out North America’s manufacturing industries. Corporations have used it to effectively send money to poorer countries where labour is cheap while getting paid bonuses for “efficiencies”.
In a single country you can do things like set a minimum wage, with free trade companies can simply move manufacturing to somewhere with a lower minimum wage, pressuring governments to race to the bottom in terms of how badly they abuse their workers.