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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • The first example I thought of was Bill Gates. He amassed his wealth from a corporation that employed anti-competitive and immoral business practices. That makes him “bad”.

    But what he has done with his fortune in the past few decades definitely doesn’t make him a bad person. Is his foundation and its goals the most efficient way to go from point A to point B? Probably not. Does that make him a bad person? Probably not, but it also doesn’t absolve him of sins he committed in the past.



  • Changing the formula isn’t a problem, it changes all the time (and SHOULD change all the time). In my opinion the problem is the choice of headline from CBC. Even the article acknowledges the headline inflation rate is being influenced downwards by volatile items, and that economists as well as the BoC don’t really care what the headline rate is. All eyes are still on the underlying “warm” parts of more consistent categories.



  • Although a little outdated being from Nov 2022, Statistics Canada has a great breakdown of what contributes to the rising costs of food beyond transportation costs.

    I’m not saying corporate profit-taking isn’t affecting prices or that we shouldn’t do anything about it, just that there’s a lot going on here. Last time I looked Loblaw’s profit margin had increased from 2% to 3% from 2020-2023. A 50% increase is a lot and I think they’re scum for doing that, but it doesn’t explain the overall ~30% increase in food prices.