Ist Kanada zum Land extremer Ungleichheit geworden? Einige glauben das mehr als andere; satte 38 Prozent sehen Kanada jetzt als Land mit dem extremsten Maß an Ungleichheit, ein Anstieg um 19 Prozentpunkte in fünf Jahren

In Brief:

* A small elite at the top, very few people in the middle and a great mass of people at the bottom. That’s what a staggering share of the population thinks Canadian society looks like these days.
* From 2019 to 2024, we’ve tracked perceptions of inequality in a series of annual national surveys. With the help of the Angus Reid Group, we’ve amassed data from Canadians in our University of Toronto Canadian Quality of Work and Economic Life Study.
* **Type A signifies the most extreme level of inequality: a small elite at the top, a few people in the middle and a great mass at the bottom.**
* Last year, we published our discovery of a spike in perceptions of extreme inequality. In 2019, we found that 19% thought Canada most resembled Type A; by 2023, 32% believed it did. And that trajectory continued.
* **In our May survey, a whopping 38% now see Canada as Type A. That’s a 19 percentage point increase in five years.** It’s rare to detect that much change in perceptions over such a short period.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plutocrats_(book)&diffonly=true  

Isn’t it insane that our finance minister wrote this book? Meanwhile, her policies along with the rest of the Liberal party have done nothing but expand this issue. Really makes you think about the strategies of these politicians. 

As someone who was born and raised in Canada, I can’t shake the feeling it simply doesn’t care about domestic Canadians any longer.

It’s consistently underscored that we’re relying on immigration to solve wherever problems the political class are focused on. So the idea of supporting actual Canadians and goals like “equality” no longer seems to be the focus.

The promise of Canada providing a positive future has all but evaporated before my eyes. Forget “inequality”, it feels like betrayal and deceit. A lifetime of following the rules, working hard, only to end up fighting immigrants for basic services and opportunities because the power class want more workers.

I can’t shake the feeling that if I were born a decade later and in the Punjab, that Canadian leaders would be more interested in my future. So “feelings of extreme Inequality” is putting it lightly when they’re seen actively sabotaging our country and providing opportunities to newcomers rather than properly supporting our own citizens.

*Edit*: To be 100% clear. I hold no ill will against “immigrants” or anyone from Punjab. But I do have massive fucking issues with our immigration policies and our economic addiction into it. It’s time for rehab, because this isn’t working.

Michelin star restaurants selling $200 per person dinners have month long waitlists while there are more people sleeping on the street than ever before. yeah it’s never been this bad

I think things have undoubtedly gotten worse, but travelling around various countries, we are probably still at or near the top in terms of equality.

Globalization is breaking down, we can’t expect the lower class to have the same quality of life. Of course, the Liberal leadership not focusing on growing the pie is not helping the upper middle class either.

I think the Americans are at least doing that better, and tons of upper middle class Canadians are moving.

Believing in something is different than something actually happening

There’s those with money and those without.

Until we decide in a different system than the capitalism that drives an insatiable level of consumption then there will always be a ridiculous labor gap.

Unions bad right? It’s not just Canada. Most of the world is poisoned by this.