It's our first episode!This week Aiden, Atrioc, and Doug are discussing Canadian-US relations, AI's effects on the job market, and why you maybe shouldn't cancel those plans.
Chapter 1: What are the key themes of the Lemonade Stand podcast?
From our new show, Lemonade Stand, a new podcast where the three of us talk about business, talk about tech, talk about politics. And for those who don't know, I'm Aiden. What do you do? I also, you know, I have a different... I've gotten like six phone calls as soon as we started recording. Don't worry, this is all part of the culture of business. Fake culture of business.
We're going to talk about this later.
For those not familiar, I'm also a podcaster where I talk about very similar things to this show. Definitely tune in to that one if you like business.
Hey, what are Slime's thoughts on the Ukraine war? I'd love to hear.
By the way, we need to give you guys an intro, because otherwise we're not eligible for awards, apparently. So you have to learn.
Aiden pulls us aside at the beginning. He's like, hey, we can't be eligible for podcast awards.
We're in the same place.
He literally is submitting this to the Oscars, unless we introduce each one of our, by full name, by the way, and you have to drop social security.
The arrogance of thinking we're up for a podcast-y on our first episode.
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Chapter 2: How are Canadian-US relations affecting immigration?
Introducing the AI small dick segment. Yeah, there will be that. He's got nine pages on that right here. Yeah. It's going to be fun. It's going to be good. It's going to be a good time. I think, and you guys probably agree, so I'm going to speak for you. Okay. All right. I'm going to do that a lot. Hearing someone talk about something they're really passionate about is really fun. It's just fun.
Yeah.
You guys have all the unique interests. We're going to bring our own topics and you're going to hear about things from someone.
Why don't we each say one topic that is going to happen today to give you an interesting smattering of what we might talk about over the course of the next 90 to 190 minutes.
I'm going to talk about how why Aiden is a massive flake and the damage that causes to people around him. And this is a real joking. This is actually here. So we're going to get into that later. It's called cancellation culture, not cancel culture, cancellation culture. And Aiden's at the forefront.
And now I want to talk in a lighter news. I'm going to talk about the way that technology impacts jobs globally.
Yeah, so I like that one better because it doesn't revolve around criticism of me.
I feel like the average user wants to hear more about Aiden's canceling.
We're going to kind of sandwich it. It's going to be Aiden canceling, the impact of technology, Aiden's dad, and what Aiden's dad listens to.
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Chapter 3: What is the economic impact of Canadian professionals moving to the US?
It's a huge brain drain because it's that easy. And it's just like, oh, if Google in the U.S. is going to pay you three times as much relative, you can just go, which is wild.
Canada is trying to deal with this too, apparently. So I read this article that I pulled up and this was focusing on Canadian to U.S. immigration in 2022. And from the previous year, it had more than doubled the amount of Canadians leaving Canada to go to the U.S. in that year. And it seems to be an interesting like split among like age groups and like why people are going.
There's a quote from an immigration lawyer in that article where he talks about most of the inquiries he's getting now are from young people that are like looking to move for financial reasons. He's desperate to get out. I actually tried to call the lawyer today and like ask him about like what it's like right now.
And he, and they didn't get back to me, but I called my, so my one other relative that lives in the U S is my cousin and she works in biotech and she moved to San Diego with her also Canadian boyfriend a few years ago. and I was letting her kind of break it down for me. And she's like, at the end of the day, like it just came to like money and like my profession.
And she says like all the people in her field and like who studied with her in Canada also want to the move to the U S because she gets three X her pay down here. And she pays like a comparable amount in taxes. So like financially it makes sense. And then even if she wants to go back to Canada, and I think a lot of people in her situation, it sounds like they would want to go back to,
canada one day they can save money faster to uh buy a home in in canada when they go back and so that's like her experience as someone who's already made the move right uh speaking of homes can i show this Are you going to show my actual home and my address?
Yeah, I'm going to show your home and address and your dad and where he lives. You can draw on it.
This is... Here at Lemonade Stand... I can remember this, yeah. Oh, sure. Yeah.
Here at Lemonade Stand, we have fancy telestrator technology to really make it a worse experience for the audio listeners.
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Chapter 4: How is the 51st State rhetoric influencing Canadian politics?
Well, we don't have states. We have provinces. There are provinces and territories.
Trump arguably, like, Nobel Peace Prize level stuff here in terms of uniting Canada as a people. Uniting Europe as a people, because they're all terrified now. He's uniting the world.
I mean, I've never seen a bad time historically where Europe wants to spend a whole fuck ton of money on military. I think that historically is always a good thing.
It always leads to peace.
And I think Trump's really cooking something here. Germany just had this thing called a debt break where they can't spend more than their budget. They're breaking it. It's been a long debate. They're finally easing that break to spend 500, 800 billion euros on military. They're going to start doing this militarization of Europe. And I think that's base. That's awesome. It's going to be great.
The more the merrier. This has never gone wrong before. It's never gone wrong, dude. I think when Germany militarizes, the world smiles. That's the old saying, right?
Yeah, I've heard that.
I'm not a big student of history. I just sort of go off the vibes.
I guess maybe the last thing that I was thinking about with the Canada thing is the 51st state. I can see why it frustrates people so much, and I've seen something similar with a few Danish friends about the Greenland stuff.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of shifting global economic orders?
So the one area where there is, I don't want to say I agree with him, but there's truth to what Trump is saying is like, it is not feasible for America to police the world order anymore. And that is particularly true with Russia doing what it's doing and China doing what it's doing.
And so I don't think the extreme of, OK, let's pull back from everywhere and just be internal is good, because then the whole thing collapses. But there is, I think, truth to the idea that that order can't go forever. The US is $34 trillion in debt. We cannot afford to police everything in the world. Europe doesn't spend much on military. We do it for them. Same with particularly Germany and Japan.
At some point, it's not feasible for the US to go in this direction forever. And so I think this is inevitable to an degree. It's been, what, 80 years exactly? Basically 80 years exactly of the current world order. And Trump is very explicitly trying to tear it down. But I'm not convinced that if he wasn't there, then this wouldn't be in motion. You know what I mean? I agree with that.
i agree that he's accelerating the motion a lot but that that is the motion like we we can't afford this just straight up we it doesn't it can't continue in its current i guess has to change that's funny because i mean my thoughts is uh i think that's super interesting and i like your pov but you guys talked about it like this was generous or whatever and in my mind it was like and i'm i'm
I'm like a patriot, dude.
No, I wouldn't say, I wouldn't actually call it generous. This stuff has been set up to our benefit. No, no, yeah, I agree with that.
It's self-serving, yeah, yeah. It's self-serving, and I don't think that unwinding it is to our benefit. I think you're right that as these economies, you know, China is now a bigger trade partner with most of the globe than America is.
Like, the fact that they're not stepping up to this doesn't make much, you know, Brazil is a much bigger economy than all these countries are bigger economies, and they want a bigger say, and I think it's going to shift because of that. But I think America trying to unwind it is kind of crazy because it's all helped us. It's all been to our benefit for so long.
Like the system, NATO, the United Nations. Like we say that Europe is spending too much on, or not enough on military because we're spending too much. But it's given us so much power over European decisions. Specifically like if we're like, hey, we want to build our EV industry outside of China. Let's tariff Chinese EVs. Europe just goes along with it. They just do the same thing. Right.
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Chapter 6: How has AI technology historically impacted job markets?
We do, as it comes, as we'll bring up later. Turns out there used to be way, way more travel agents, and you don't need that if you can just look up what you want to do on the internet. Hundreds of thousands lost. Brokers, financial advisors, lots of people where the internet essentially just invalidated their job. Can I just say something? Sorry. Yeah, yeah.
My dad has worked in the military for 30 years, and then he quit, and he works at a military contractor now. He doesn't really like him. He's ready to leave. He's always had this dream of being a travel agent, and I don't know how to break to him. I've told him softly in many ways, like, oh, that's cool, but it doesn't really exist anymore.
Based on what I've seen in the east part of L.A. County, if he can speak fluent Chinese, he can make a business out of it. Yeah.
That's odd.
Dude, there's weirdly a large amount of travel agencies in the east part of LA County, but they're in Chinese. They're only in Chinese.
And this is what we call retraining for a new opportunity. I see. I'll tell my dad to get started on Duolingo right now, Mandarin.
postal services dropped dramatically but obviously the internet has created an unbelievable amount of jobs um e-commerce is absolutely massive obviously amazon doesn't have a great reputation but 1.5 million people work for amazon 200k for alibaba alone millions and millions and millions across the world in logistics and delivery right like arguably every industry in the world has been touched and largely benefited from e-commerce cyber security and it this is
These are industries that are created because of the internet and computing. There's millions globally. Content creation. There are approximately 50 million content creators, at least globally, at least 2 million full-time. These numbers are very hard because so much of this is kind of interwoven.
But if you think about some of the numbers, like TikTok alone has millions of people doing it professionally. Right. So it's hard to exactly say, but the estimate is like it's at least 50 million worldwide who are making content to some degree professionally. That is wild. And that's all again, that's 50 million people who weren't doing that two decades ago.
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