It’s expensive to pay first world workers with modern worker rights and work safety regulations in Canada … and heaven forbid if they are unionized workers.

It’s cheaper to export the raw materials to a country with cheap labor, few or no worker laws and lax safety regulations … and definitely no unionized labor.

The government wants to build the nation … by allowing companies to skirt as many laws as possible to maximize profits and build the nation’s businesses and corporations in the vain hope that these companies will actually share their profits and benefits.

$40 for a cheap meal delivered to my door ready to eat … made by someone who doesn’t like their job, made with the cheapest ingredients, in a questionable kitchen, by a worker I trust follows proper hygiene, processed by a series of people who will take care of my food to be handed off to some guy who I trust will take care of my food as it travels to my house with everyone being paid as minimally as possible so that several companies can squeeze as much profit out of the transaction as possible.

Or I just take a few hours every weekend to make a ton of good food to eat for the entire week.

The Emperor’s new clothes

Then all of a sudden you find them on top of you just a pumpin and a sweatin

What’s he doing with his hand?

Isn’t it a vegetable?

That’s the problem! There’s water everywhere!

We need to get rid of the water!

Would it feel better if we played the song backwards?

What was I going to comment here?

Also it was far easier 30, 40 years ago to survive a bit of exploitation, especially if you were a white male.

It’s not so easy any more.

Ummmm … those weren’t aliens that were doing the probing. And they didn’t film it either.

Aliens: … oh well … I guess there’s nothing for us to do here

Leaves the solar system and never bothers with humans again

You are free to walk off the edge of our flat earth and land on a turtle

Humans: … Great idea! … Let’s find the most deplorable, selfish, psycotic, ignorant and greedy people we can find to run this new system … what could go wrong!

There’s no evidence of this happening … because all the cardboard from ancient Egypt disintegrated and disappeared leaving no trace behind.

Every system ends up becoming the same thing if you fill the top leadership with psychopaths who want to rule the world

Which now renders their site useless … I’ll go on your site to look up basic info … then go to your store to get what I want and even visit some other store or service that could give me the same product.

It’s a disincentive to want to use their site in the future.

I’ve stopped using several store websites because of this. Then when I want an actual product … I’ll call the store and ask them to look for the product for me. If they have it great, if they don’t, I’ll look for it elsewhere or figure out some other solution for myself that doesn’t involve any of their dumb websites.

I’m regressing from the internet and use people contact more and more because of this stupidity. I’m going back to the way I did things in the 90s and early 2000s where I would just use their store flyer as a guide, call the local store to ask for something and then go look for it myself because the online services today are so intrusive and needlessly complicated that its faster and more useful to not go online.

Here’s an anti-Korn meme

The sun looking at all of us in that particular position in our orbit: … aww that’s cute, they’re celebrating again, I wonder why, they’ve been doing that for a while now, silly little things

They start stocking the shelves with Christmas crap a week before Halloween now

You have to buy and prepare your Halloween gear by the first week of October and buy all your candy two weeks before Halloween because there will be little to no Halloween stuff by Halloween … and anything you can buy the week before Halloween will either be no good or way overpriced and in that week before Halloween, you have to search for the Halloween stuff among all the Christmas stuff they started displaying.