Online-Only Madness

2025-02-07

Canada’s Online-Only Madness: Why Are We Forced to Do Everything on the Internet?

What in the actual hell is going on in Canada? You need a job, so you put on decent clothes, walk into a business, and politely ask to submit your resume. What do they say? "Apply online." You want to sign up for a gym, in person, at the front desk, where the staff is literally paid to handle memberships. What do they say? "Go fill out the form online."

Are we serious? Are we actually saying you must have a smartphone, a computer, and internet access to do the most basic things? This isn’t just inconvenient, it’s a trap. Not everyone has unlimited data, a working laptop, or time to fight with some broken, convoluted online form that probably doesn’t even load properly.

And let’s talk about jobs for a second. If you’re hiring people who won’t even bother coming in person to apply, what makes you think they’ll bother showing up to work on time? The absolute bare minimum for a job is showing up, and we’re removing that from the process entirely. Who benefits from this?

This isn’t about convenience, it’s about forcing people into a digital system that not everyone wants or can access. It’s a lazy excuse to replace human interaction with a broken, frustrating, impersonal process. If I’m standing in front of you, ready to sign up, pay, or hand you my resume, there is absolutely zero reason to send me home to fight with a glitchy website.

This online-only nonsense is idiocracy in action. We need to push back, because this isn’t just about technology, it’s about basic accessibility and common sense. If a human can help, let them help. Stop treating everything like it has to be done through a damn screen.

This is more than just inconvenience, it’s about the right to technological impairment. Not everyone is tech-savvy, and no one should be forced into a digital system just to function in society. This is a Virtual Insanity, where technology is supposed to help but instead becomes an obstacle. The real problem isn’t technology itself, I love tech when it’s a tool that improves life. But what we have now is tech being used against us, making things harder, isolating people, and punishing those without constant internet access. This isn’t progress, it’s dystopian nonsense, and it’s hitting customers and workers the hardest.