Canada

Cna we please severely limit what investment companies can do?

Investment companies should not be able to buy hospitals, farms, houses, schools, sports teams, infrastructure, parks, forests, transit and transportation companies, pensions, saving funds, none of it.

A structure where an investment company can help a person to buy a farm and build something up while paying off that investment company within a reasonable time for a reasonable cost sounds fine, but we already have banks and it's hard not to make those squeeze us.

So fuck off with investment companies, let them burn to the ground. They should be prohibited altogether

This is happening with hospitals in the US.

It's happening with vets, it's happening with restaurants, with contractors, utilities, with anything and everything. Anything that can be bought, will be bought, and it will be squeezed relentlessly.

The rich will not be happy until they've wrung every cent of value out of us, and even then they won't stop. They can't stop. They don't even understand how they could stop any more than a tumour might understand why it shouldn't grow uncontrollably/.

Slowly returning to feudal share cropping

They misspelled "utterly fucked over for corporate profit."

edit: Real estate is now unaffordable for an entire generation - thanks to "investors." They'll not only do the same to agriculture, but consequently to agricultural products. Expect to see artificial shortages, increased prices, declining quality, and occasional outbreaks of horror (the current discrepancy between Canada and the US for H5N1 will be erased, for instance).

But it's all worth it in the end, because some billionaires will get incrementally richer.

Makes sense this is how capitalism will grow - once you've refined and streamlined things as best as possible and maximized your market, your next way to continue to grow is to buy up more companies (or farmland) or expand their operations into more sectors so line goes up.

Seems like we need to figure out a way to prevent this from becoming a race to the bottom in terms of quality (and a race to the top for company profits), or turning into mega-corpos only.

This started way back in the 2000s and has snow-balled the last 10 years. And it's not just farmland. There are investment funds of the rich who are buying up forests and vast tracks of land around the globe as investment properties for long term holding.

Small(ish) farming operations have been disappearing for decades. It's just accelerated now, with greedy investors caring more about a cash grab than the fact farms feed us all.

This kettle is going to overboil so hard and fast...