Predatory capitalism is exploiting people based on a medical condition that they were probably born with. Extracting profits & making people terminally indentured. “Make us profits, or die.”
Not too different from how capitalism treats workers.
This philosophy that people need only exist to make profits for capitalists also factors into why Conservatives see education as a commodity that they would rather be privatized.
To them money not spent in ways that benefit the rich is money wasted.
Because Alberta diverts almost $300 MILLION per year FROM public education to subsidize elite private schools—to subsidize the rich—there is less funding to support your child. (See linked thread below.)
Albertans have been conditioned to accept this instead of being outraged
The diversion of tax money to from public education to subsidize the rich is why Alberta public schools have some of the highest school fees and highest bus fees in the country. 🧵👇
When funding was given out for covid supports, elite for-profit private schools like Webber Academy received hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars in subsidies.
Pollution remains unhealthy around #Calgary due to ongoing wildfires in the mountains.
Climate change is real. The fact that events like this happen almost every. single. year. is frightening. What kind of future are we leaving for today’s children?
The term eugenics was coined in 1883 by British explorer and natural scientist Francis Galton. Alberta and British Columbia passed laws that created eugenics programs, in 1928 and 1933 respectively.
2,822 Albertans and over 200 British Columbians were sterilized through these programs. In 1937 Alberta amended its Sexual Sterilization Act to remove the need for informed consent for sterilization.
Supporters of Eugenics made assumptions that Canadian society could be improved by encouraging reproduction among certain groups — particularly Anglo-Saxon Protestants — and discouraging or limiting reproduction of other groups.