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Can you expand on the "Canada is a slowly failing state" bit? It's an idea I've seen a lot in the past years but I don't fully get it, as a Canadian. How is Canada failing more than the US or European countries like Germany or UK for example?

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“As shown in research published in 2021 by BCBC (Williams, 2021a), and in the Globe and Mail (Williams and Finlayson, 2022), the OECD projects that Canada will be the worst performing economy out of 38 advanced countries over the next forty years (2020-2060), achieving the lowest growth in real GDP per capita – the most important measure of overall prosperity.”

https://bcbc.com/insight/canadas-productivity-performance-ov...

I’m not sure I agree with the idea that Canada is a “failing state” but I do think there is a significant risk that we will not maintain the standard of living we are accustomed to and that I think we believe we deserve - deserve in spite of the evidence that we’re not innovating.

Sky rocketing housing prices, declining primary industries, biggest major resource exports destroy the earth and nobody sane wants/needs them, provincial gov'ts de-fund and undermine public health care, partisan nastiness inspired by imported US culture wars crap, contradictions in interests between geographical regions, monopolistic parasitic local bourgeoisie, should I go on?

The US isn't failing. It's balkanizing. That balkanization will probably undo itself. Even if it doesn't, the ununited states would still be economic powerhouses. Not as prosperous as it was during reconstruction or the height of the petrodollar, but that's an impossible standard to hold onto forever.

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