Category: Opinion
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Vaccine mandates are necessary to save lives and regain our freedoms
in OpinionThe only way to get our lives back is to get everyone vaccinated. Until then, we won’t be able to engage in recreational or work activities where there are other unvaccinated people. To live in a free, civilized, and open society requires that we all accept numerous “mandates” every day. From seat belts to traffic…
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Pick up trucks and big SUVs are a nuisance to society
in OpinionAs a person who cares about the environment, one of the things that irritates me the most is when I see huge SUVs, or big pick-up trucks polluting our air and taking lots of space on the streets and parking spaces. Even in the midst of a pandemic, with the economic uncertainty that it brought,…
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Rents are going up. Don’t blame the landlord, blame the city
The real estate market, like most markets, works on supply and demand. If there is more demand than supply, prices go up; if there is more supply than demand, prices go down. There is no legislation that can change the laws of economics, the law of supply and demand. There is no global conspiracy of…
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My friend struggles to pay the rent on time but has the money to buy a $2,500-puppie
in OpinionThere is a lot of talk about the lack of opportunity, about income inequality, unfairness in the labor market, and so on and so forth. We hear all those stories because there is a lot of truth to them. Yes, there is racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and many other kinds of discrimination. But the main…
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I am vaccinated and I support the implementation of a vaccine passport
in OpinionTo live in a free, civilized, and open society requires that we all accept numerous “mandates” every day. From seat belts to traffic lights and speed limits, to no-smoking areas. Oh, but when our collective asses are up against a deadly virus, it’s suddenly about choice? It’s about liberty? That’s nonsense. I have been extremely…
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Rage Quitting: People don’t want to work shitty jobs for shitty pay
in OpinionI see it all the time now: We are hiring, and People don’t want to work Covid-19 has been a wake-up call for people who work shitty jobs for shitty pay. It’s like an awakening, it’s realizing that life is short and you don’t want to spend it working under sub-human conditions. The ongoing coronavirus…