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The worst people online are having a meltdown over the NDP's new leader. Here's why
(rachelgilmore.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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Stock values would plummet. Stock values of the exact corporations that have spent 50 years practicing regulatory capture. This is something that will NEVER come from government. It is something we can only have if we build it outside government as a co-op.
But it seems even less likely that a co-op of at most a few percent of the population can prevent itself from being run out by those same entrenched interests.
I get what you are saying. Any major change will affect the status quo. I want to change the status quo. Do "stocks" even mean anything anymore now that the market is so manipulated? We need a better system, starting with owning our own stuff again. We need the government to be the people again not have a mindset like "this is something that will never come from the government". We are the government.
A good case study is the CRTC. We have the worst communication fees of any developed nation, despite having donated Nortel to the world (...), specifically because the CRTC is a plaything of the communications cartel. This has been notoriously ongoing for decades and only gets monotonically worse. If you know what to do about this situation, I'm game.