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Canada’s housing crisis isn’t being caused by foreign investors. It’s being caused by investors, period | Ricochet (ricochet.media)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is one of the issues with democracy: people vote in their own interests. Perhaps I should be more specific: this is the problem with democracy in a culturally fragmented nation. Without shared values and a sense of camaraderie, people don’t vote altruistically, but self-interestedly. They don’t care about their neighbours because their neighbours don’t care about them. I live in Denmark now which is very culturally homogenous and people do vote altruistically. They vote for higher taxes because they know their neighbours share their values. They identify with each other like a loose family. This is one of the drawbacks of multiculturalism which is rarely discussed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I am absolutely with you on the fact that Canada has a very individualistic culture (another drawback of our southern neighbours?), but I tend to diverge when you blame multiculturalism. I would think that other, more macro pressures (history, economic model, popular culture, political stability and wealth inequality) might be more influence on wether or not a population has social values or individualistic ones.

Source? I'm just spitballing here...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

This is one of the issues with democracy: people vote in their own interests.

I vote for pro 2SLGBTQ+ issues, and am none of those things, so how does that square exactly? I vote for help for the unhoused, but am housed, how does that square?

this is the problem with democracy in a culturally fragmented nation. Without shared values and a sense of camaraderie, people don’t vote altruistically, but self-interestedly.

You seriously need to back this up with something, you can't just say 'we're culturally fragmented, have no shared values' as some sort of 'known'.