Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to Bart Janssen,
The entire middle class had time, even the poor had more time.
Yes. Clay Shirky's 13-minute TED Talk about cognitive surplus is worth a watch.
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to BenWilson,
Since the idle rich are where the lion’s share of the most important ideas, art, science and other high level goods have come from historically...
Says more about who defines history.
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Leverage. Hey our whole financial system is based around gifting money to banks. :)
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
They will lend against savings and less risky financial investments - like mature economies do. Not just against houses.
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to BenWilson,
so that debt deleveraging can happen without catastrophic consequences
With so many small business loans secured against houses, NZ really has to grapple with this one.
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Notes & Queries: Paul, in reply to David Herkt,
I'm not an employee, an abstract 'carer', I'm a person. Paul is my friend
Admirably clear. And rare.
It was filtered through me. You didn't get Paul, you got my experience of him. Paul is much, much richer than I made him.
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The great range of being human is frequently made narrow and mean. We are bigger than what we usually see. Being human is a wider range than is represented. Selfishly, Paul has made me a better person and for that I thank him.
Totally. Thank you for shining a light on that.
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to Angus Robertson,
because we are smaller and a much riskier investment
though we've been reliably lucrative for over a decade now
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Speaker: Generation Zero: Let's Grow Up, in reply to Russell Brown,
Heck, even a change in government is more likely. One willing to change our fundamental economic settings away from investing in houses rather than productive export-earning enterprises. Wonder how much longer young folk who haven't left the country will continue to prop up their grandparents' flaccid fantasies?
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Hard News: Media3: We have much to discuss, in reply to Stephen Doyle,
only 13
Middle-aged at the time, then
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Hard News: Media3: We have much to discuss, in reply to The Ruminator,
link whoring
please do