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  • OK, here’s an example:

    The low income threshold in Canada is $31,317 (according to stats Canada and the CRA). This entitles Canadians to certain financial aids if their income falls below that above that, people still have access to:

    • basic dental
    • childcare funding or tax rebates
    • food supports
    • allowances for children’s sports and arts
    • rent supports
    • career training and retraining
    • poat-scondary education supports

    The proposed $33k ubi would indeed match the threshold, but people above this threshold who make 40k or 50k would lose those benefits and have less money. There is a complex system of supports currently in place that interact with taxes, direct funding, and full/partial grants from federal, provincial, and collaborations with nonprofit and charitable organizations. How would these be addressed?

    Another problem with UBI in general IS actually the phase-in problem, because we don’t all need the same amount to live comfortably; metropolitan centers have substantially higher living costs than rural areas, but their infrastructure costs per resident are lower than for rural residents because of scale. And this leaves out Northern living, which has its own cost structure altogether. In urban centers, reliance on donated food distribution is higher than it’s ever been, and a lot of those people are on a living allowance of $29k/yr. How would giving them $33k and no food help? How about indigenous communities? Does their funding structure see any change under UBI?

    UBI is such a broad-sweeping fiscal change that this transition IS the real obstacle. The issue with making broad claims based on averages like in this manifesto is that we don’t actually live that way. I’m definitely pro-UBI, but it is not an easy problem to solve.

    So yes, the manifesto is naive and seems to be founded on a surface-level understanding of human living finances and federal/provincial-level finances in general.

    As for the carbon pricing, that is not a realistic take either.










  • Classless interdomain routing is not the point of this post, but basically we started giving people more options for network sizes, and while complex in implementation, it was philosophically virtually uncontroversial.

    You’re talking about 2 different things here. Bit masking part of what is now CIDR was implementable since the mid 90s on network segments, it’s the logic to route packets based on CIDR that was integrated into RIP, GRIP, and BGP.

    Also, CIDR can’t alleviate multi-hop routing address exhaustion.


  • This opt out is a positive, likely carved out by litigation, in a very very negative space for privacy rights.

    It’s not, it’s less than Google used to do for these requests. In 2009, I requested my house be taken off streetview. They removed it by skipping mine and a few houses on each side.

    Then they went down my back lane, so everyone got a good look at my back yard anyway.

    Privacy today is a never ending battle, but Google started this nonsense a long time ago.