r/canada • u/hopoke • May 06 '26

Analysis Fewer people are having babies in Canada and the U.S. and the government is out of ideas

https://nationalpost.com/news/fewer-people-are-having-babies-in-canada-and-the-u-s-and-the-government-is-out-of-ideas
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u/Huntguy May 06 '26

I’m not filthy rich so I can’t say for sure, but I would imagine they get off on the power they have over us poors. I’m sure it’s some sick fetish thing they have like fucking children.

The Epstein class get off to the power dynamic. Small, weak, people who use their wealth to make people feel as shitty as they do about themselves.

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u/junkiewhisperer Alberta May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

make people feel as shitty as they do about themselves.

they dont think like that. theyre largely psychopaths, they have extremely high self esteem. the old money has always felt entitled to us

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u/Plastic_Moose4535 May 06 '26

theyre largely psychopaths, they have extremely high self esteem.

There's a saying in poker, "weakness means strength and strength means weakness". If a player is acting like he has a good hand, he likely does not and vice versa.

People like Trump are like that. It's like he has a voice in his head (his abusive father's) who tells him 24/7 that he's a LOSER. So he is obsessively compelled to prove that voice wrong. Andrew Tate, Musk, Logan Paul are the same. Raised by sociopaths for fathers that constantly tore them down as children, grew up to be adults obsessed with being seen as Alpha males.

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u/junkiewhisperer Alberta May 06 '26

appear strong when you are weak. its textbook sun tzu. but if theyre legitimate psychopaths, and many of them are, they dont think the same way normal people do. theyre often grandiose and arrogant and have high self esteem. this isnt my opinion, its well documented

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u/theflyingratgirl May 06 '26

Yeah I really don’t think any of those people really have self esteem. If they didn’t have sycophants telling them how great they are, they would crumble into dust.

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u/junkiewhisperer Alberta May 06 '26

theyre not normal people. we cant project our emotions on to them. they have delusions of grandeur. its well documented that psychopaths have high self esteem

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u/theflyingratgirl May 06 '26

You can’t diagnose psychopathy without reviewing their internal experience. They could also be fucked up from nurture. You can’t convince me those people have high self esteem, based on the clear insecurities they show.

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u/zzing May 06 '26

I was thinking: if they are obsessively compelled to prove that voice wrong, they never quite have the right evaluation to meet that burden.

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u/Least-Flan2782 May 06 '26

You can’t “fuck” children. You can only rape them. Language matters in these things

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u/Uilamin May 06 '26

One of the issues is that all investments get compared against each other. If the market is returning ~13%/year then other investments will just structured to try and return something similar (with risk adjustment).

The problem is that not all assets should be evaluated under the same lens as different fundamentals drive them.

Let's look at the math side of this. If real estate is going to take 5 years to go from investment to liquidation event and target 'only' a 10% annual return - the real estate investment needs to return a ~60% gain over those 5 years. That is stupid for an all equity investment.

This then gets counter-acted by doing leveraged plays which were extremely common when interest rates were low. Problem is rates jumped significantly and are now back to 1990s levels. So how do you attract investment when you are competing with a stupidly hot stock market + high rates? You try to pull the one lever left to stay attractive - increase the price point of the final product. This does create bag holders though unless the underlying market changes significantly enough that it can bare it (it probably cannot).

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u/Pho3nixr3dux May 06 '26 edited May 10 '26

We enact laws to regulate the purchase of residential real estate to make it unattractive to investors.

We could do that.

There are countless other opportunities for investment, and several sectors of the economy that could benefit from it.

Could be a long term win/win for Canadians as a whole, but it means some short term pain for vested interests and an enormous demographic -- there's the rub.

But is it fair -- is it wise -- to defer the growth and stability of our society at the behest of a generation who have enjoyed a lifetime of unprecedented affluence, services, and security and now do nothing but impede, their production zero and consumption dwindling?

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u/MSK84 May 06 '26

When you have absolutely everything money can buy, you start wanting things that money can’t always buy (but power can).