Public Address | Cafe | Polity: Lady luck smiles more than we think

JessicaRose

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:31:12 +1200

Kind of a tangent on the topic, go to about 26mins through, and you see how people have no trouble copying and improving other peoples ideas. But get VERY upset with people copying theirs, or ideas they come to think of as their own.
And how detrimental this is to…

Andrew C

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:46:28 +1200

I always liked Michael Lewis' Princeton speech where he makes the same point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiQ_T5C3hIM

Robert Urquhart

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:11:14 +1200

As another who is only in the comfortable position I am due to positive fortune, I like to take as one of my guiding principles a slight modification of another well-know saying: “Be the luck you want to see in the world”.

Life is absolutely not “fair”, the very concept…

Kumara Republic

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:18:48 +1200

Do I blame those who have decided to invest in property? – to be honest, no, and the urge of some to call these people names such as 'generation rentier' doesn't help the debate one iota.

Do I think Auckland needs more intensification?, hell yes (and those who oppose it…

Kumara Republic

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 23:52:06 +1200

Lazy thinking about their own life can lead people to embrace lemon-mouthed arguments that rich people are rich because they deserve it and for no other reason; sharing the fruits of success is immoral and should be stamped out; people who aren’t successful must therefore be lazy; and so on.…

Sacha

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:36:03 +1200

A lucky family will have the contacts and resources to get the help they need.

I'd call that fortunately wealthy and with strong social capital, rather than lucky. Lucky is striking the right agency or case manager or policy change for your needs at the right time.

simon g

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:12:07 +1200

I liked Liam Dann's piece as well. Nail on head, really. As long as there are enough of us with a stake in the status quo (which rewards us personally and fails the country at large), and no vision beyond it, then our poll-driven politicians aren't going to change much.…

Joe Wylie

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:41:43 +1200

In the disability world luck and love definitely play a part. For a disabled person life will be a lot easier if you are lucky to have the love of someone eg a mother, to advocate for you.

Personality and appearance certainly counts, for good or ill. A certain agency…

B Jones

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:46:59 +1200

Especially people who have bad luck. It's much easier to deal with a cause that can be avoided than just having pulled the short straw, especially when short straw distribution is uneven. Having some sort of narrative directing things is much easier to process than a whole bunch of things…

BenWilson

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:11:59 +1200

@B Jones: Yes! Even people who have bad luck often don't want to acknowledge the huge part it plays – because that disempowers them, makes them feel they can't fix it.

B Jones

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:26:01 +1200

"Shit just happens" is a kind of disempowering philosophy, even if it's fundamentally true a lot of the time. I can kind of get why people reject a luck hypothesis in favour of one in which their actions or inactions play a starring role. It's one of those quirks of…

Hilary Stace

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:42:47 +1200

In the disability world luck and love definitely play a part. For a disabled person life will be a lot easier if you are lucky to have the love of someone eg a mother, to advocate for you. You will be lucky to find good services and supports when you…

llew40

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:22:58 +1200

Your assuming thats what they want. Or do you know for sure?
There are other ways to consider future generations you know

Good point. If they are anything like their parents they may well decide that roaming and living elsewhere is perfectly fine. And all strength to them. I guess…

andin

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:10:24 +1200

enable us to offer our kids a better chance of being able to get their own foothold in the Auckland property market

Your assuming thats what they want. Or do you know for sure?
There are other ways to consider future generations you know

most MPs seem to be property…

Moz

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:05:59 +1200

Heh. I was born white, and male, into a family that both valued education and was well equipped to deal with my personal oddities. For the most part (family history of what I suspect is now Aspergers, at the time was hyperactivity, and before that was PITA). Oh, and family…

llew40

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:53:59 +1200

Nice piece Rob

With regards to housing, like Liam Dann, I'm one of the lucky ones. We bought a house in Mt Albert 12 years ago, and have subsequently seen it more than triple in value in that time. While we've not gone out and used the equity in our…

andin

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:52:26 +1200

good helpings of dumb, blind luck.

can come over my way now… pretty please…
I aint got the “accident of birth”, workin’ for me.
But dont ask me to put on those ridiculously lensed specs.
I prefers me beersie goggles

HA nearly wrote google then
Dont matter anyhow… these would-be…

Hugh Wilson

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:50:29 +1200

I read Liam Dann's piece this morning and thought it was a pretty honest assessment of the situation – I for one know many people who 'got in' just before AKL prices really started moving, and some of them happened to moved back from OZ when they were getting 1.30:1…

Public Address

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:50:29 +1200

Discussion from blog post.