Even if we limit ourselves to homes within city limits (so we aren’t talking about backwoods cabins, here), Canada has about 6 empty homes for every homeless person.
The problem isn’t a lack of homes, the problem is an excess of “investors” looking for a labour-free income stream parasitized off of the backs of the working class.
This CBC article claims that in 2023, in Alberta Canada, a box of 50 9mm rounds cost $13 retail. That’s $0.26 a shot. Multiply that by 7 billion and you get $1.8 billion.
I assume Alberta Canada is not the cheapest place to buy 9mm rounds, and that if you were buying 7 billion rounds some kind of economy of scale would kick in, and that you could get a better price even just as wholesale rather than retail. Oh and that’s Canadian Dollars. But that’s still an upper bound.
$1.8 billion dollars is more than I have, but is not more than anyone has.
Toronto is Canada’s largest city, and is the 4th largest city in North America. In 2025 they spent about 1.8 billion Canadian dollars of their budget on “Community and Social Services” alone. That’s child services, fire, paramedic, parks and rec, shelters, that sort of stuff.
I’m not advocating for shooting every human on Earth, but for the cost of parks and shelters and ambulances for a single year in the 4th largest city in North America, we could make that happen.
It would destroy a lot of other parts as well. I would have to bet a number of these people still work some sort of job even if part time, babysit for family members, still provide something to their community in a way.
Sadly there are a lot of people who do believe measures to depopulate would be a good thing.
Well, euthanizing 1/3 of the population would certainly help alleviate the housing crisis…
Even if we limit ourselves to homes within city limits (so we aren’t talking about backwoods cabins, here), Canada has about 6 empty homes for every homeless person.
The problem isn’t a lack of homes, the problem is an excess of “investors” looking for a labour-free income stream parasitized off of the backs of the working class.
“The cheapest thing in the long run would be to shoot all of us”- an old professor of mine
Seven billion bullets are not cheap.
But we’d never have to feed or house anyone again
This CBC article claims that in 2023, in Alberta Canada, a box of 50 9mm rounds cost $13 retail. That’s $0.26 a shot. Multiply that by 7 billion and you get $1.8 billion.
I assume Alberta Canada is not the cheapest place to buy 9mm rounds, and that if you were buying 7 billion rounds some kind of economy of scale would kick in, and that you could get a better price even just as wholesale rather than retail. Oh and that’s Canadian Dollars. But that’s still an upper bound.
$1.8 billion dollars is more than I have, but is not more than anyone has.
Toronto is Canada’s largest city, and is the 4th largest city in North America. In 2025 they spent about 1.8 billion Canadian dollars of their budget on “Community and Social Services” alone. That’s child services, fire, paramedic, parks and rec, shelters, that sort of stuff.
I’m not advocating for shooting every human on Earth, but for the cost of parks and shelters and ambulances for a single year in the 4th largest city in North America, we could make that happen.
It’s the federal government so we would somehow manage to pay about three times market price for them
We’re running an experiment on this new product, Soylent Green… Interested in participating?
It would destroy a lot of other parts as well. I would have to bet a number of these people still work some sort of job even if part time, babysit for family members, still provide something to their community in a way. Sadly there are a lot of people who do believe measures to depopulate would be a good thing.