Ill fly to Japan next year. First foreign country vacation in 14 years. Estimated costs 3-4k. I go to concerts every few months so I spend a few hundred bucks there. Other than that most of my money goes into rent and food. I have some somewhat expensive contracts though. 50€ phone, 50€ internet.
Going out is living life though, I wont reduce my quality of life for decades just so I can afford a house.
But in short, I do barely spend money on vacations.
You are certainly not the type I am referring to. Even if you cut all that, will not help a lot.
Anayway my story: never ever sid vacation abroad.Vacation outside my home only every 2 or 3 years. Never eat out. I have no idea how is it to go to a concert. No expensive hobbies. When I was 40 all of that provided 40k for a down payment.
I can manage to save 500-1000€ per month. For me the biggest issue is just the general pricing. Maybe its emotional too, but I have fond memories of my family house when I was a kid and I dont want to buy comparatively a bungalow for quadruple the price.
Where in the article it suggested the spread due to immigration?
If any, it is due to misinformation and reluctance of those communities (mentioned specifically Alberta rural, y’know, the province that has been burned with misinformation, public health scandal, crazy Premier that has been stoking Separatism while cozying with MAGA that has threatened Canada sovereignty)
Measles is unbelievably infectious. An unvaccinated person has a 90% chance of getting infected if exposed. The virus can survive in the air for hours. In a susceptible population, one infected person will typically infect a dozen other people or more.
Changing the rate of immigration won't make a bit of difference for a disease like this. It only takes one infection in a susceptible population, and then it's game over. Unless your controls are 100% effective (including tourists and returning citizens), the only way to prevent an outbreak is for the vast majority of your people to be uninfectable.
An insufficiently vaccinated population is like a can of food. It might take longer to spoil if there's a pinhole in the side versus if you just crack it open, but it will spoil if there's any breach whatsoever.
So unless you propose to isolate to a degree more extreme than North Korea, blaming immigrants is just bigotry.
We all know by now that immigration is going to be cited, by certain people, as the cause of any problem. It's not worth your time to draw out the charade that it's intended to start a good faith discussion. It's better for the platform to downvote and ignore.
> How realistic is this plan that is the question.
FTA:
Amazon has considered steps to improve its image as a “good corporate citizen” in preparation for the anticipated backlash around job losses, according to The NYT, reporting that the company considered participating in community projects and avoiding terms like “automation” and “AI.” More vague terms like “advanced technology” were explored instead, and using the term “cobot” for robots that work alongside humans.
LLMs have only been a big deal for 2 years. are you saying that all of this middle class shrinkage arrived because of that specifically? the original comment was saying this is an LLM-specific issue.
Aussie, Canada, much of the Europe have no issue.
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