To paraphrase the Beatles "they get high with a little help from their friends"

This is another of those "things that I would like but are pretty unrealistic." If the goal is to cut down on beef, the price would either go up drastically or we'd put farmers into something less lucrative and just import our beef.

Regardless, the public, of whom many if not most eat beef, would be furious. I struggle to see a government that could pass this and last an election without having this overturned by the next government rather quickly.

That being said, it'd be nice. But nice in the same way that everyone being vegetarian and not wearing sweatshop clothes would be nice.

Fair enough!

I'm still not sure I get this. Is it just odd for them to be looking at a hangnail?

That's a pretty bold leap. I'm pretty confident the guy screaming removed**removed on the street has bigger problems than the lack of free transit. (Also, if you've ever take a skytrain you'll notice how payment is rather optional for most folks with issues.)

Tourists bring in a boatload of money. I'm not even sure how you would enact a mechanism like this... A BC toll taker at every port, airport and land crossing? How much are we charging to pay for that, that somehow doesn't hurt tourism industries but also completely subsidizes our use of public transit?

I love public transit, think it's important but this seems more one of those "things I would like but don't seem particularly feasible."

(Also, if you've ever been on the N20 or even BLine and watched a mentally unhinged man threatening women, children, non white people or other vulnerable people, well... Not wildly sure I want to drop the barrier to entry to zero. I can be a scary looking dude and have had to use that at least 3 times in the last year as someone experiencing mental issues went off on a quiet brown guy, a woman and some teens respectively.)

Which is pretty huge and mostly discretionary.

I do abstain from beef. Which is difficult as hell as I rock weights at the gym and beef is incredibly protein efficient. But it's the least I can do. So I eat a boatload of chickpeas and chicken.

My smartphone is a shitty ancieng refurbished one as that's the most ethical I could find.

I haven't bought sweatshop clothes in years. So yeah, my fashion sucks as it's mostly thrift shop but I dont feel evil. (Though, my boxers are falling apart and it's getting kind of desperate. Sadly, because other people don't give a shit there are very few ethical underwear options.) Similarly, every piece of non electric furniture in my place is second hand, except for my bed frame.

Gave up on cars more than a decade ago. Finally got a second hand one but bike, bus and train almost everywhere.

I've taken a 30 - 40% pay cut to work in the non profit sector. Which makes it unlikely I'll ever buy a house but my work helps put kids through school.

My individual decisions don't make a difference but it's like voting. If others lived similarly, the world would be significantly better. We can all do better, it's just harder than whining about billionaires online.