Victor Villas

mostly inactive, lemmy.ca is now too tainted with trolls from big instances we’re not willing to defederate

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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • just need to update it to also regulate the flip side

    “just need to update it” is not that simple, because if legislation forbids price adjustments in all directions it’s effectively dictating the price of the service, which is hard to defend in court. It was only justifiable to forbid cutting driver earnings because the assumption is that the company has other ways to compensate.

    Why bother trying to protect Uber “consumers” anyway? If people want to make use of an exploitative service, they should pay a lot for it. Let Uber be priced out.











  • I appreciate the Tyee squeezing every possible angle against this but…

    trading partners take the threat of climate change seriously and use carbon tariffs to punish other countries they see as free riders

    The US and they would be happy to see the carbon tax go away, so they don’t have “communism” nearby, and we know that “trading partner” for Canada means mostly the US. The odds of Canada getting sanctioned for backtracking a 1 yr old tax is negligible.

    This is addressed in the article (A greening American leviathan), but I won’t be holding my breath. Even if carbon tariffs has bipartisan appeal for now, let’s see what happens when the time comes.