It definitely has shortcomings, but I genuinely hope the fixes will not result in rolling back the program completely.
My IBD is relatively well-managed, but on bad enough days even I'll gravitate towards some not-so-sunny thoughts.
Offering MAID is not a solution to societal ills. But it’s just straight up evil to say that people can’t kill themselves to escape a bad life because it would make you sad to think about.
A society that encourages people to off themselves because they are a burden doesn't sound nice to me. I think anyone should have the choice (legally) to end their life, but it would be gross if people actually started talking about how that would be good for everyone else.
How much productivity can one expect to transfer from young people to old people if the total fertility rate is too low? Surely the cracks start to appear when there are 2 old people for every 1 young person? Absent sufficient automation, of course.
Typically, this causes asset price inflation, where the government tries to keep the most active voters (old people) happy, and to do that, they try to keep old people’s purchasing power from diminishing too much. And since older people have more assets than younger people, it effectively results in a transfer of the fruits of the country’s productivity from young to old.
I don’t know how accurate a picture the media and the rhetoric on the internet paints, but this seems to be a growing issue in Canada, at least from changes in their real estate prices relative to income.
At the end of the day, people who don’t work need people who work. But people who work don’t need people who don’t work. Presumably, if people who work never received anything in exchange, then they would not be incentivized to works.
And so the implied contract is people work now and give to people who don’t work, and in exchange, in the future, they will be the people who don’t work and receive from people who work.
But if there will be fewer people who work in the future, and not sufficient automation, and people who work now see perhaps their parents getting less than they expect, and they see TFR trends, and put two and two together and realize they are not going to get what they put in, then they may choose to opt out of this contract.
The way Canada operates me reminds me of people I know who have poverty mindset. Spending money on longterm investments seems unthinkable here
I think it's a side effect of politicians only really caring about the next election cycle. Any investment that won't pay off before the next election is sidelined
That people with terrible quality of life have the option is a good thing. It should be available for full autonomy.
I just don't want a case of any pressures to get euthanised, whether from family or society.
Much preferred to, say, ættestup: https://youtu.be/DwD7f5ZWhAk?si=WjwnN7cZC1h7TcJU