What a totally insightless statement.

You out your finger on the problem there...

The difference between Henry Ford and todays greed-driven idiots is that Henry Ford wanted to keep things working long-term. If that was good for his workers, so what? While that was not the goal, he did not mind. Todays rich greedy scum feel offended when something is good for workers.

A very simplistic and incomplete view. How do you think people can pay when they buy that widget? Right, you did not think about that little aspect. What a fail.

How very fascist of you. Yes, the fascist model of society is a possible solution. Short-term. Because it does not lead to a stable society. In fact, the actually implemented versions needed to dispose of tons of useless people by way of war and death-camps to keep things somewhat stable and some fundamentalist (quasi-)religious cult-like organization. You really want that?

Exactly. What we are going to is that a somewhat small part of the work force will be in high demand (mostly STEM people that are good at what they do), but only a small part of the rest will have jobs. It is a novel situation. Most leaders are hard at work to try to ignore it and some are trying old recipes (like war or religion) to deal with it.

I agree to that analysis. The point is not to stop the job loss to automation. The point is what to do with the effects and that does include two critical questions:
(1) How are the jobless going to live decently enough financially to not raise up and destroy everything?
(2) What are jobless going to do with their time so that they do not raise up and destroy everything from sheer boredom and desire to have an impact?

At this time, both (1) and (2) are unsolved. (1) because of unfettered greed, stupidity, arrogance and some scum that has to get even richer when they are already rich beyond all reason. (2) is unsolved because we actually do not know. This is the first time the human race has encountered this issue. When it happened to some
"high class" groups in the past, they mostly became self-destructive.

Yes. While LLM-type AI will probably not cause a job apocalypse (it looks more and more problematic every day and the business numbers basically have zero chance to work in the foreseeable future), automation and things like simulation and design software are drastically reducing the need for manual labor and that is an ongoing and successful process. It is also a slow process, which is probably why the not-so-smart majority are trying denial as a coping strategy, with predictable results.

We need to face it sooner or later: Only talented people are going to have work in the future. Education can enable these but it cannot create them. Whether it is STEM graduates that are actually good (!) at what they do or tradespeople that are. Obviously, some service and entertainment jobs will remain, but these will not make a large difference. Now, how do you design a society where something like 50% or more of the population is basically not employable? You cannot go back to the old model where women got no education and stayed at home. You cannot imprison them all. You cannot just give them an UBI and let them rot (an UBI with a decent level will be necessary, but not sufficient). You cannot kill most of them by doing large land-wars (which was the historic way to get rid of an abundance of unruly men). You cannot make them into a cult and have them pray away their lives, because that does not work large-scale.

So, what to do? Interesting times are ahead, no doubt.

My take is this is a lie by misdirection, used to keep certain loud nil wits quiet. There is no way Carney does not know the abysmal economic numbers and the horrible external dependencies of nuclear power. Also, maybe they want one or two reactors to build up a nuclear weapons capability in case the US goes completely down the drains.

Found one of the fools this hallucination is designed to impress. Apparently quite successful.

This is the actual problem with nuclear power. And by the time it comes around, the people who made the decisions have already safely moved elsewhere or into pension.

My take is this is to keep the dumb, but loud nuclear fabois quiet. Give them something imaginary that they are too mentally limited to recognize for what it is.

Probably just some magic thinking and maybe some political tactics. I do expect the Canadian leadership knows quite well that nuclear power makes no sense whatsoever at this time and that SMRs are worse and entirely unproven. But note the timeline and that it is all SMRs. Make the right type of contract, have the first SMR deliverer not perform, point out that the projects are not needed anymore, and the financial damage stays quite limited.

Correct. Breaking is entirely irrelevant to this discussion.

If something breaks, it's on me. This is about companies being able to take something away that isn't broken at all, at any time they choose, without any refund.

For any other item that'd be theft and would land them in jail.

You see, there is one thing that is called "propaganda". It is what you have eaten up. Then there is another thing called "reality" or "actual intent". It is something entirely different.