Henry Ford was generally a racist and a bad person, but he understood something our current broligarchs have completely forgotten.
He said: I have to pay my workers enough to afford the products they’re building.
Give them a house, decent schools, reasonable healthcare.
If I do that, they’re not descending on my Dearborn mansion with pitchforks while I eat my caviar.
We’ve lost that plot entirely.
We have broligarchs who want to be trillionaires and they’re missing the lesson that a deeply flawed man figured out a hundred years ago.
Capitalism works, but only if people believe the game is worth playing.
Right now they don’t and history is very clear about what comes next.
Torontonians are telling me the same thing every day: the TTC doesn’t feel as safe as it used to. It’s time to restore safety and order with police at every subway station, clean and well-lit platforms, and platform edge doors - so riders can feel confident taking transit again.
It will forever boggle my mind that there exists an organisation that can kidnap 1 and 3 year old babies, kill them, parade their coffins on stage to cheering crowds of civilians, and still be considered the victims by morons in the west.
Chamberlain’s surrender of Czech territory to the Nazis in 1938 was one of the greatest strategic blunders and moral failures of the 20th century. But at least he had the “decency” not to blame Czechoslovakia for Hitler’s aggression.
To honor Metrolinx’s long legacy of incompetence, we’re bestowing official heritage designation to the Eglinton Crosstown construction. A plaque to commemorate their story of failure is being created. Unfortunately, there’s no telling exactly when the plaque will be completed.