Posts by Sacha
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Southerly: Coming Up For Air, in reply to Lilith __,
Windfall profits are seen as a 'right' by those too incompetent to make their fortune without a friendly government ensuring a market free from fair regulation.
The only emergency for these cosseted fools would be our government doing its job, and citizens and their representatives making sure that happens. While Brownlee feels safe smugly declaring that everything will just fix itself and you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, where's the first sign of that organised insistence on decency?
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Southerly: Coming Up For Air, in reply to Lilith __,
I can't understand why Brownlee and CERA don't use their extraordinary powers to deal with the rental housing shortage.
Because that would interfere with the unfettered profits of residential property investors. Brownlee has been explicit about their interests being his priority - well, except where that conflicts with those of other corporate donors/beneficiaries further up the pork pecking order.
Where's the coordinated opposition to that viewpoint?
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
classic
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Hard News: Getting Out, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,
chicken in a basket
you may need to elaborate.
Shame I can't do that more often.
move :)
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I've started. And as you know I have more than a passing interest, so it's fascinating. Did you get to read any of my stuff yet?
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Hard News: The Very Worst, in reply to Richard Aston,
How do we "punish" people via loss of liberty and attempt to rehabilitate them without throwing them all in a bin together?
home detention?
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Yes. Forgiveness takes clarity. No matter how uncomfortable that might be for some. Still trying to set aside time to read your whole thesis. Kia ora.
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Ross Mason,
I like the idea of walking forward with a reversing mirror in your field of view. Just like driving.
Interesting how a metaphor about collective wisdom can be turned into one about individual self-reliance. Different worldviews.
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OnPoint: Some of My Best Friends are Consultants, in reply to nzlemming,
your optimism was touching
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Hard News: The Very Worst, in reply to JacksonP,
it's a pretty substantial barrier - and at least until recently it used to apply less in other areas of health. There may have been rationing but at least an equivalent service was provided by the state. Dentistry, only for children. Inconsistency unexplained given the very real health impacts.