This is the best take I’ve seen yet, with the benefit that it’s literally already been done.

It’d be interesting to see what would happen if they tried to mandate this now, but I’m sure it’s already too late.

My own family has looked into living wills after the care of my grandfather in decline, some of it at home. That may be something for you to look into to help anyone who would become responsible for you in such a situation.

I would argue that caring for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s is a specialized skill set, and that most people don’t have those skills but become forced into situations that can lead to elder abuse and devastating mental health consequences.

There is no way this is true NOW.

When I grew up in the 90s this was the case, I lived in a household with a chronically ill parent and was told this by healthcare providers. That’s why I used the word historically, but obviously I should have been more clear.

In BC, flu shots have historically only been free for those with health issues, those who live with them, and I guess the elderly probably. BC always left working ages adults with no recorded health issues out to dry as far as I can tell.

Edit: HISTORICALLY guys!

If this is from one of those phone surveys, then the only people answering the phones and actually doing them are boomers. Highly suspect numbers.

I don’t know anyone that actually answers those surveys, even the people that initially pick up the phone.

I think they did for a while and then changed to someone else shitty again.

And while I was still working out of a truck a few years ago, the mcD’s coffee went to shit again, so they changed yet again, but for the worse. But for that brief time, McD’s did have the best cheap takeout coffee.

This project looks like a jump up from Seattle’s various tiny homes villages (Nickelsville, Othello, etc), which are around 120sq.ft each and don’t have running water, if I recall. Those are considered temporary housing, but this is a like a next step up.

Curious how these ones interact with building codes, etc, being more permanent.

Either way, people who haven’t frozen to death, been stabbed, or OD’d have more options for recovery and moving forward.

Arguably, under a UBI system people will not be pressured into jobs they aren’t good at or hate just because those jobs offer the wage they need to live. Demographically, “female-coded” jobs are undervalued, so I can see how a UBI would help level the playing field there especially.

I can think of many times I’ve wondered why the hell a coworker is doing this job when they suck at it and seem to hate it. I’d love for those people to have the option to just get out without potentially parking themselves and their family at the food bank.

I’ve started to pay more attention to Costco’s “price per unit” entries on those tags, I just wish that other stores that have lots of comparable items side-by-side would do it.

The time to worry about recruiting and training young tradies was about a decade ago. You can’t make a bunch of kids into 10+ year skilled journeymen in 3 or 4 years, and unless employers are forced they’re going to continue fighting over the most experienced employees and leave the apprentices to rot without an opportunity to be trained.

Industry and government should have taken this seriously when it was brought up years ago that there was a big generation drop-off in most trades, but it looks like someone tossed that mess down the later-tube and now, it’s later. They should have been mandating mandatory apprentice ratios in workplaces years ago, instead of letting apprentices be used as labour and then fail their exams due to not being taught their trade.

Same for me, I think I had a short sickness EI claim automatically converted them clawed back, but because of the time gap involved I just couldn’t figure it out until now and figured that some money must have got dropped in my account without me noticing.

Did they end up clawing it back?

I was confused that I got a CERB clawback warning, and had it clawed back, but then I realized that I applied for sickness EI for something unrelated during covid. It isn’t worth it for me to try and track it back, especially when blinking the wrong direction is liable to get me locked out of my Service Canada account for some reason.

I just can’t even get angry about the ineptitude anymore, or even disappointed. Disappointment implies that I expected better, which throughout my apprenticeship of dealing with them I learned never to do.