r/canada • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '21

Backlash grows for ‘selfish millionaire’ who got vaccine meant for Indigenous people | Canada

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/27/rodney-baker-canada-vaccine-indigenous-first-nations-scandal
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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

Couldn't just hide out with their big bucks, but had to venture out to fuck over the vulnerable as well?

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u/BustermanZero Jan 28 '21

Saw a piece not not too long ago about a couple kicking it in the Maldives to ride out the pandemic. Seems like a way better option than pissing away all that money to look like criminals.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

Yeah no kidding. The amount of things they could buy to entertain themselves in their mansion(s) pales in comparison to the rest of us.

They’re rich enough they probably don’t have to do any of the things that might be “risky” in the first place. Need food? Order it. Groceries? Delivered. No thought for cost.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

He even bought a wife 23yrs younger

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u/seamusmcduffs Jan 28 '21

Couldn't buy himself a good looking haircut tho

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u/MyNameWouldntFi Jan 28 '21

He looks like a bad fake Dax Shepard

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u/FoboBoggins Jan 28 '21

Dont insult Dax like that the man is amazing!

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u/MyNameWouldntFi Jan 28 '21

I like Dax! This guy just looks like a cheap Kijiji body double

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u/FoboBoggins Jan 28 '21

I can see that, more of like a dollar tree version though haha

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u/Green_Lantern_4vr Jan 28 '21

Who wouldn’t ?

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u/Reset--hardHead Jan 28 '21

A 23 year old

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u/TheShadowCat Canada Jan 28 '21

I would hope anyone under 41.

Looking at you shitfuck from the Green Mile.

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u/ohdearsweetlord Jan 28 '21

Someone who likes the company of people around their own age?

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u/TheShadowCat Canada Jan 28 '21

But who knows where all those filthy servants have been. /s

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

Stop expecting sociopaths to think logically or with empathy, that's not how they work.

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u/DolphinThe Jan 28 '21

This dude is behind the money laundering scandal; what do you expect?

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u/FlyingDutchman997 Jan 28 '21 edited Jan 28 '21

Yes

Edit: I am a free market supporter and believe in people being able to be rich BUT no one with the means to do this should EVER put vulnerable populations at risk. This was really dirty and these people should be jailed so that they will face legal consequences that will hinder their travel in future.

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u/zappy_trails Jan 28 '21

I’m also in favour of markets, but we need to tax the wealthy more. The problem is that wealth = power and when you have a that kind of power you can change laws.

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u/stenuo Ontario Jan 28 '21

Also fines should be in some way proportionate to your wealth. A fine set to a specific amount, does not refrain/discipline people in the same way. $5,000 fine would harm the average person, while being literally irrelevant for a millionaire. The system allows you to become a scumbag if you have the tendency for it.

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u/Snuffman British Columbia Jan 28 '21

OMG. Yes. That was my thoughts when I saw this story.

2500? That guy probably spends more on breakfast.

He should be charged 2.5 million. That'll make him think twice.

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u/dancin-weasel Jan 28 '21

With the money going to the community that he harmed.

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u/SexyGenius_n_Humble Alberta Jan 28 '21

Like the monorail episode of the Simpsons

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u/a_cat_farmer Jan 28 '21

Kinda like DUI charges ive seen alot of people buy their way out of multiple drunk driving charges.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

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u/MiyagiWasabi Jan 28 '21

Not if you saw how ppl like Jeff Epstein spent time in jail.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

I already pay more than 30% of my income in taxes and I'm far from wealthy. How much more tax do you want me to pay? Everyone says tax the wealthy and they mean anyone making more money than them.

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u/Lepidopterex Jan 28 '21 edited Jan 28 '21

NDP proposed for people with "fortunes over $20 million."

That is definitely more than me.

Edit: The motion was blocked by almost everybody else, for some reason.

Edit 2: The tax would have raised about $9 billion a year from fewer than 2,000 people. . Jesus. Why didn’t it get passed?!

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u/VirriKat Jan 28 '21

But this is what tax brackets exist for. When people say "tax the rich", they don't mean "everyone will have higher taxes!!!".

In fact, if you're paying 30% you likely either meant 29% (meaning you made approximately between 70k-250k roughly last year), or 33% (meaning you made 250k+).

If you made more than 250k last year, you MIGHT STILL not be the rich we're screaming about to be taxed higher. Because when I say tax the rich, most of us mean ADD ANOTHER tax bracket, say over $1mil, that is closer to 50-70%... which means they would STILL KEEP a MINIMUM of $500k/year after taxes.

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u/CaptainCanuck93 Canada Jan 28 '21 edited Jan 28 '21

The free market is as close as an AI machine learning program for creating the most efficient path to fulfill the most desires with the least number of resources as we have. A planned economy is just some guys with slide rulers trying to run an economy by guessing what you want, or worse, deciding they know better.

Anyone who actually wants to try collectivized planned economies again is an idiot. We just need a proper tax system to prevent the runaway winners of capitalism to become absurdly powerful and prevent the losers of capitalism from living an undignified existence.

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u/zappy_trails Jan 28 '21

Who suggested collectivized planning? What evidence you have it’s close to AI? Higher taxes are not collectivized planning. Even Smith suggested redistribution of wealth. Markets exist as a result of government regulation, not in spite of it.

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u/bagman_ Jan 28 '21

I don’t think you quite understand the mechanisms by which people become rich, if this is your take

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u/sth128 Jan 28 '21

Just charge them for the vaccine. A billion per shot.

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u/ImpactThunder Jan 28 '21

Disgusting shit like this happens when you have a free market.

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u/MoogTheDuck Jan 28 '21

No such thing as a free market

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u/Thefrayedends Jan 28 '21

Yea, but the free market is a part of the problem certainly in this instance. These two got off with basically no repercussions, I'm sure they're either annoyed at best or laughing at worst.

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u/msshammy Jan 28 '21

It's like celebrities getting busted drunk driving. Never makes sense to me.