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  • It may be a matter of opinion, but if a driver doesn’t have the ability to drive safely (i.e. defensively, with concern for others, etc.) without the use of the guardrails (no pun intended), then they really shouldn’t be driving.

    Driving is a skill. If it requires “hacks” or mind games, then we’re doing something terribly wrong.

    Some countries that have implemented safe street design also have drivers who know their place on the road.

    Safe street design won’t have the same effect in countries where drivers feel entitled and for which their behaviour has no consequences.

    For example, we have stop signs and red lights. Everybody who drives should know what they mean.

    But we have the majority of drivers rolling through stop signs, and quite a few ignoring red lights. You can’t really design this stupidity out. Roundabouts are not an answer when the attitude of entitlement still exists. We are just shifting the bad behaviours to another part of the road.

    And in particular Ontario, where our government would rather build wider roads with fewer safety implements, makes this challenge even more difficult. Drivers need to change their behaviour, and need to, well before we make the roads “safe by design”.










  • We shouldn’t cap income, but total wealth. That would include stocks, assets, etc.

    People should be free to make money, and if making was balanced, then taxes would apply to everyone fairly.

    To reiterate, nobody should be worth a trillion, or even a billion.

    What about property - if the market skyrockets, are people forced to sell their homes?

    The cap wouldn’t be so low that this would become an issue. Unless you’ve hoarded multiple homes worth tens of millions each… a cap would discourage that type of hoarding, too.

    What about things like the wealthy transferring their extra wealth to children or spouses? How does that play into it?

    Family wealth would be capped, just as we are often taxed or given social assistance for total family income/assets.

    If wealth was capped, then even if a family spread around the wealth, it wouldn’t be hoarding to the tune of hundreds of billions.

    Really, we could have solutions to every scenario. But the fact is, our current system isn’t working at all. It’s perhaps the worst system you could dream up, unless you were among the top wealth hoarders in the world.

    But a fair and balanced system would still have “rich” people, they just won’t be rich enough to influence elections, control social media, or monopolize any industrial sector.