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5:30 pm, September 7th, 2021 - 2 comments
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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Protests against the Taliban across Afghanistan.
https://twitter.com/NicolaCareem/status/1435133087415816192
https://twitter.com/IFazilaBaloch/status/1434513753060610050
#afghanistan protests
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/on-taliban-s-panjshir-claim-massoud-calls-for-national-uprising-10-points-101630992260970.html
"I think we're going to see two New Zealands. We are going to see New Zealanders who are enjoying the capital gains of the houses which they live in, they're going to be able to accumulate more housing and there's going to be a smaller population of New Zealand who are owning a home and owning investment properties.
“And then there is going to be a larger proportion of New Zealand that is definitively locked out, and that doesn't matter if they have a great job or save really hard. If that's what they have been born into, that's where they'll be set.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/450962/many-homeowners-couldn-t-afford-to-buy-their-houses-if-purchasing-now
James' prospect of two New Zealands distracts from our issues of living in a remote land relying for income on seaborne exports of unsustainable industrial agriculture products in an era of climate change and geopolitical instability. Concern about ability to buy and finance a home and about security of tenure in a rental and how to keep paying the rent helps keep these issues in the background.
The state building, owning and renting long term at an affordable rent would stop James' two New Zealands from developing by making a home available to anyone who can pay the rent, and free people to think and do something about the big issues affecting us all.