Poverty Watch 42
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The Child poverty action group this week released, in two parts, a report into the links between poverty and child abuse (Part 1 pdf, Part 2 pdf). These reports did not get the attention that they deserved, because of course the Key spying circus is in town, sucking up all the media oxygen.
The Herald managed to muster one good article on the reports, buried (so it seems) in the “Crime” section:
Child abuse policies ‘inadequately informed’ – report
New research into child abuse suggests current social policies aimed at reining in New Zealand’s high rates of abuse are “inadequately informed”.
A Child Poverty Action Group report, which analysed abuse notifications received by Child Youth and Family between 2008 and 2012, found while higher rates of child abuse were associated with socio-economic deprivation, policies which focused specifically on income levels were unlikely to be the correct approach.
In particular, results from the report questioned the focus placed on benefit dependency and child abuse by the Government’s White Paper on Vulnerable children.
The group’s convenor and social security spokesman Associate Professor Mike O’Brien … ”[Social Development Minister Paula Bennett] has made a great play about the link between people being on benefit’s and child abuse. “The critical question is…[one] simply of inadequacy of income and issues about poverty,” he said. …
“The fundamental piece is to make sure that we get a comprehensive approach to thinking about issues of child abuse rather than doing what has often happened in recent times which is grabbing at one piece…which might be of interest. …
The Green Party have also weighed in on the report, saying the Government needed to stop beneficiary bashing. “Paula Bennett has just introduced punitive welfare policies which put beneficiary families in even more impoverished circumstances,” Green party Children’s spokeswoman Holly Walker said.
“If the minister wants to start turning around New Zealand’s horrific child abuse rates she should start supporting families and implementing policies to life them out of poverty, not bury them deeper.”
Ms Bennett was unable to comment on the report as she had not received a copy.
Somebody please send Ms Bennett a copy and then ask her again next week. There was also a short piece on the NewsTalk ZB website:
New research says Government should focus on child poverty
New research is suggesting current government policies aimed at clamping down on high rate of child abuse, are on the wrong track.
A Child Poverty Action Group report has found benefit income does not appear to be related to rates of child abuse. … It’s found while higher rates of child abuse are associated with socio-economic deprivation, policies which focus specifically on income levels are unlikely to be the correct approach.
The report says simple solutions based on characteristics of individuals are unlikely to be effective.
It says policies should address broader issues of poverty and its relationship to demographics and peoples’ ability to access employment, housing, health and other services.
Stuff’s coverage was pathetic – a “league table” of the regions with highest abuse. The Greens, of course, put out a good press release. But as far as I can tell in terms of media coverage that appears to be that (please add further links in comments if you know of them).
Child poverty and child abuse shame our country. Here we have research which explores these issues, and shows that the government’s punitive focus on beneficiaries is misguided (to say the least). These reports deserved much better coverage than they got. I’ll cover some of the detail in the next couple of editions of Poverty Watch.
Let’s close with Holly Walker trying to get a straight answer out of Paula Bennett:
Here’s the standard footnote. Poverty (and inequality) were falling (albeit too slowly) under the last Labour government. Now they are on the rise again, in fact a Waikato University professor says that poverty is our biggest growth industry.
Before the last election Labour called for a cross party working group on poverty. Key turned the offer down. Report after report after report has condemned the rate of poverty in this country, and called on the government to act. Meanwhile 40,000 kids are fed by charities and up to 80,000 are going to school hungry. National has responded with complete denial of the issues, saying that the government is already doing enough to help families feed their kids. Organisations working with the poor say that Key is in poverty ‘la la land’.
The Nats refuse to even measure the problem (though they certainly believe in measurement and goals when it suits them to bash beneficiaries). In a 2012 summary of the government’s targets and goals John Armstrong wrote: “Glaringly absent is a target for reducing child poverty”…
The costs of child poverty are in the range of $6-8 Billion per year, but the Nats refuse to spend the $2 Billion that would be needed to really make a difference. Even in purely economic terms National’s attitude makes no sense.
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What has happened to the food in schools announced by the Nats with fanfare some months ago.
Kim Dot Com ate it all.
“Paula Bennett has just introduced punitive welfare policies which put beneficiary families in even more impoverished circumstances,”
Can someone tell me which benefits the Government has reduced? Work testing doesn’t count. If a welfare recipient gets a job they are better off. If they don’t get a job they keep their welfare, which last time I checked has not been reduced across any of the welfare payments since this Government was elected.
So what are the “punitive welfare policies” that will actually reduce money in the hand to those on welfare?
Of course work testing counts. It sucks up valuable time and energy (basically just jumping hoops) for no result.
The government should be providing full paying jobs for everyone who is capable and willing to work.
That is not the Government’s role.
Ensuring the wellbeing of all members of our society is very much the governments role.
Governments need to aim at policies that encourage 100% employment otherwise there becomes a problem with poverty and/or welfare.
So far governments have tried to deal with the ‘problem’ of welfare costs by drastically the welfare paid (’90s), forcing people to look for jobs that aren’t there, creating more stringent rules to make it harder to get welfare and easier to toss people off.
Wouldn’t it be altogether more pragmatic to focus on policies that have a strong focus on job creation instead? Stopping encouraging job losses, jobs going overseas and the importing workers would be an excellent start.
Work testing in my town is just going around annoying busy shop owners, and managers, that are getting pissed off at the time lost dealing with job seekers, day after day. who are just jumping thru hoops. You can just see it in their eyes, and demeanor, it’s like ‘again’
srylands the govt doesn’t have enough staff at work and income to work this pathetic policy.
Jobs are the answer where are the jobs you said you had a couple of high paid jobs, in reality this govt’s policy settings aren’t delivering any nett job gain except in Australia as you have pointed out before all you are doing is ghettoising those who haven’t got the skills have mental and physical health issues location issues.
Their are their are up to 400’000 New Zealanders who don’t register as unemployed who are also looking for work.
With bullying bean brained bean counters in charge you are not going to change the fact that their are no where near enough jobs!
This policy is just designed to pander to the redneck vote!
There are not enough jobs for people with low skills. That will only get worse over time. At the same time that we have thousands of people unemployed, we are importing thousands of immigrants to fill all the job vacancies. And don’t tell me we need to “retrain” the unemployed. We can do some of that. We should do more. But we need skilled workers NOW. The priority should be to help the kids who are in school now not repeat the mistakes of their parents.
The reason we are in the shit is low productivity and a raft of policies that impede growth and employment – and all these policies are the policies applauded by the left.
so just leave the parents on the shit-heap then?
That will have nooooooo effect on the kids’ achievement levels whatsoever /sarc
I agree entirely. We need a lower dollar, a government that believes in the products produced by the businesses it fucking owns (like trains) let alone NZ businesses in general, and intense investment in, yes, retraining. At a minimal start. Aggressive attacks on inequality and massive investment in education, health (especially in high-dep areas, and including dental), and real social welfare (community courses, social workers for at-risk kids and so on) are needed, too.
” (like trains)”
Trains are not competitive. Despite the best efforts KiwiRail is going down. Five years from now you will just have Wellington and Auckland metro trains. That’s it. And only them because of the large subsidy they get from motor vehicle owners and the taxpayer.
“Best efforts”? What a joke.
Trains are incredibly efficient especially in goods haulage. What is not competitive is the damage to roads caused by large trucks, but other road users subsidise that (RUC don’t cut it). But the problem is that under your neolib religion, because truckies compete with each other (and receive greater hidden subsidies), they are fine (although they have greater negative externalities). Trains, which have fewer negative externalities and greater positive externalities, cannot really appear competitive in NZ (e.g. side-by-side lines). So society gets held back because you can’t count something on your slide rule.
No you got it wrong – trains are subsidised. And dead. You work on transport policy? No, didn’t think so.
Trains are no more subsidised than trucks and busses.
An issue that periodically gets done to death here when the nats give their trucking mates more benefits.
Trains are competitive in high volume bulk haulage – milk powder, logs etc between hubs.
This has been analysed to death. Stop being stupid. If we could make trains work we would make trains work.
and so fucking sorry – I meant to say “raise GST to 17.5%” – doesn’t make the rest of the package invalid.
“This has been analysed to death. Stop being stupid. If we could make trains work we would make trains work.”
Blatant bullshit. Trains worked in 1900 and they would work now- except we seem to prefer to “subsidise” the road transport industry by billions a year.
“If we could make trains work we would make trains work.”
Bullshit. It doesn’t fit on the tory slide rule, the massive benefits are too indirect to be put into the correct line item, so slow-thinking priests of libertarianism like yourself bleed rail at every opportunity.
“and so fucking sorry – I meant to say “raise GST to 17.5%” – doesn’t make the rest of the package invalid.”
No, but it does typify the thought you put into them (and increasing a regressive tax is a nice way to fuck over more children of the poor, by the way, you soulless prick). Some of your list wasn’t immediately stupid – some here support a UBI, for example. But then you suggesting it might make some supporters take another look, just to be sure they fully analysed the math and implications.
Trains are 18 x more efficient at moving passengers 1/3 the cost to construct
Information from Tory Camoron Govt UK the Tories in the UK have stopped building Motorways because they are to expensive our Tories send clowns like you Schrilands to tell lies and spread cynicism!
“Massive investment” can’t just mean more spending. You have to get the incentives right. Eliminate subsidies. Use market mechanisms to drive efficient delivery. All the things that are NOT being done now.
Because that will totes work in education, health, and providing social workers for at-risk kids. /sarc
[cue catechism about how the market will save us all]
How can someone still believe in trusting everything to ‘the market mechanism’ when it is clear that in such a deregulated mess that we’ve created; even that doesn’t work anymore?
‘ People’ short selling, buying up stocks of commodities in large quantities and thereby creating monopoly effects and fraudulent behaviours such as the Libor and forex scandals are leading to ‘an accurate price discovery mechanism’ being as fictitious a concept as ‘an intelligent, generous-spirited and thoughtful neo-liberal.’
Eliminate subsidies? In that case the trucking industry should be paying at least 1000 times the road user charges that they are. Instead we pay for them to wreck our roads. Stop that subsidy and carting stuff between Auckland and Wellington on the backs of purebred Arabian stallions would probably be competitive. Trains and coastal shipping would hold all the advantages, except that governments are heavily lobbied by road freight and would rather see a large number of individualistic truckies than unionised rail workers or sailors.
Yes there is a bit of pandering to the red neck vote – but my point remains – this government has maintained welfare levels. If you read a lot of the slogans posted on these threads you are left with the impression that the government has “slashed” welfare. It has not.
All parties do sometimes pander to their core constituencies – doesn’t make them evil. Labour used to pander to nut job unionists in some of their policies even though they knew they were nut jobs, but they had to do it. With National there is just a different flavour of nut job to be served. But you need to look through this. The Government’s pro Growth policies are in the right direction. A lot more could be done, and should be done. But the electorate is too scared of change and the adjustment costs. And the left fuels that fear.
The unemployment problem is created and maintained by the left.
Reality check – NZ unemployment trends 1999 – 2013.
srylands is peddling a brand of economic mysticism which over 30 years has been thoroughly discredited. It is a mysticism which particularly benefits the top 5% of developed countries i.e. the top 1% of the world.
Unemployment can be solved but it can only be solved in our current economic system by massive spending, massive investment and massive sales revenue.
That srylands doesn’t understand that is a massive indictment of how wrong-headed his theories are.
The current government is a left government.
@ Srylands
Unless wealth disparity is addressed, you can have as much growth as you like and it will not address unemployment, in fact the ideology that both the right and left are following is increasing welfare.
Not adjusting to the ‘time saving’ effect of technology, (such as redefining fulltime work and ensuring those profiting from this technology feel a responsibility to share their profits) means not enough jobs for everyone, not enough money for all and more welfare costs.
Those with capital have no focus on creating jobs for people, they solely wish to ‘make their money grow’ which can be achieved through firing as many people as they can, encouraging increasingly low wages, speculating on futures markets and houses etc which raises the costs of necessities for everyone else and other such unproductive activities.
Focusing on ‘efficiency’ creates more profit for the top dogs and leads to job losses and higher welfare costs.
Following low wage ideologies means more welfare costs.
Most of the above-mentioned rubbish idiocies are encouraged by right-wing or centre policies; not left ones, yet, really, who cares whether it is left or right. It would be good to get things moving in a more positive direction.
“speculating on futures markets” ?
really? Future markets are important. For those that need to manage temporal risk.
How many Kiwis are “speculating” on futures markets? Wow that is a serious problem that is affecting welfare folk.
You’re a fucking idiot. So you would be happy to limit options trading strictly to those who had a material exposure to the underlying? Go on then, because that would be one of the rare scenarios where limited forms of option trading would have real economic use.
Why are you so bitter and twisted about the world around you? It is such a hallmark of the left. Every bad situation is the fault of someone else.
I have offered a range of suggestions for reform. Most of these will be realised in the next 20 years. The left’s prescription of envy and tax and control, no chance. In 20 years we will look back at R Norman as a footnote and laugh.
BTW did you see that one of the “experts” cited as the foundation for NZ Power has come out and said it is a load of crap?
Left policies in NZ as currently formulated will condemn NZ workers to another generation of misery.
e.g. the first thing to do is abolish the WINZ machinery, and introduce an absolute minimum income. No more welfare. No more abatement no more work testing. That just removes welfare as an issue.
Then we can get on to lifting productivity and working on education and training.
It is time to quit the bitterness and bleating and – especially the politics of envy – quit moaning and get behind a decent programme of reform measures. There are plenty of successful role models internationally. Memo – Greece and Spain are not what I am talking about.
If you don’t understand why people are bitter, then you have no fucking clue as to what has been happening in this country for the last 30 years.
Memo: following the prescription of the elite banking and political cartel have resulted in Greece and Spain being in the predicament they are today. Your “answers” will take us there at double the rate.
BTW nice side step you made there to the universal income, which is a policy I support, as well as a policy of full employment.
You’re a fucking idiot, as I said. This is not an individuals problem. It is a societal problem of political economy. The individual response is relevant to themselves, but irrelevant to the core of the problem.
the gangs will love you
once again show us the evidence
“How many Kiwis are “speculating” on futures markets? Wow that is a serious problem that is affecting welfare folk” ~Srylands
It doesn’t matter whether there are large amounts of Kiwis speculating on futures markets or not the effects of such activity are global in reach.
Everyone needs to eat.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
The key understanding is this: volatility is what makes financial trading super profitable. And with the use of HFT algorithms, large trading houses can dial up volatility at will. The fact that it will destroy real economy businesses and leave people hungry on the other side of the world is irrelevant to these people.
+1 CV
And the real worry is those, such as Srylands, who promote the interests of ‘these people’, without even understanding whose interests they are propagating and what it is that they are going to create if people buy into their mindless parroting.
I can’t think of anything more stupid.
Policies to promote growth, productivity and reduce unemployment. I could list 100 but I’ll just give you some obvious ones:
Sell all remaining state owned enterprises
Remove urban land use control from local governments and pass to a new Crown entity with housing affordability as its sole aim.
Introduce a 25% CGT on all asset appreciation over CPI upon realisation of gains, with no exceptions
Introduce a 25% flat tax, and company tax rate.
Increase GST to 15%
Remove ALL import duties and taxes on all goods.
Remove all subsidies to all industries, including the film and “cultural” industries.
With the sale proceeds of TVNZ create a new public funded content provider, but with the content streamed on Youtube.
Abolish the Defence Forces.
Create a new public funder of innovation and research.
Reintroduce interest on student loans equal to the bond rate. Use the savings to massively boost university places, and higher ed research.
Allow anyone to take up residence in NZ who gas $5 million and will employ five people (with checks on continuity and criminal background checks)
Increase NZ Super age to 67 over 10 years and progressively to 70 over the next 20 years.
A guaranteed minimum income for everyone of $15,000 annually. Abolish all “welfare” work tests, and the whole WINZ machinery.
I could keep going. There is no reason why we couldn’t do this now. It would make New Zealand a better place.
Transfer all roads to a new SOE and run and construct all roads as a business (just like airports now – how are they different?)
Introduce a diversity of school types, and massively increase funding for disadvantaged children at school.
I ask that you put aside your immediate prejudices against my “right” views and think about this. It is not really a “package” because it has not been costed. But as a direction of travel, it has a lot going for it.
Wow – an apostle…..
An apostle who doesn’t even know that GST is already 15% (policy number five).
What a fucking dick.
What a fucking rude lefttard.
What hurt your feelings more – being called a dick, the rude words, or it being revealed that you don’t even know the basics of the NZ economy?
I don’t have hurt feelings – I’m just reminded that the left are generally (a) rude and (b) have no sense of humour and are (c) rude and (d) you can’t take them anywhere and (e) they are rude and (f) you can’t take them anywhere and …
and we stopped using sliderules in 1985
Great more neo liberal stupidity. Look at the socioeconomic wreckage of the last 30 years. Why are you ordering up more of the same?
It is not more of the same. None of it has been done yet.
Of course it has. Its just more of the same. Radical reform to lift more income up to the top 5%, same old tropes.
I expect that you would have no feelings, hurt or otherwise. I’ve yet to discern anything remotely like feelings in anyone who would put up such an evangelical list of Friedmanite rubbish.
Although I have no sense of humour, I do have a picture of me on a donkey, so your argument is invalid.
My “list of rubbish” will be New Zealand in 20 years, or we will simply slip down the international rankings. The bleating over “beneficiary (sic) bashing” will evolve to bleating over the remaining scraps. Kind of like a Zimbabwe with deflation and power blackouts R Norman as Associate Finance Minister.
The rich pricks will come back to their summer holiday homes for 6 weeks each summer.
That is the future that you are condemning your children to.
I just love it. Positioning yourself as the All holy “follow me or condemn your grandkids to economic hell” saviour.
schrilands your a pessimistic utopian fool
A) awwwww
B) your entire economic paradigm is a joke
C) awwwww
D) you came here
E) awwwww
F) we already know where to go
Oh, and if you’re not using sliderules any more, you can start doing economic analysis with a bit more complexity than one variable at a time.
Fucko.
you have just stolen half of acts policy and mixed it with gareth morgans big kahuna!
Missing out that we have no duties on imports already.
abolish the defence force The US would put you in guantanimo .good idea
you are an utopian with a borderline personality.
schril why would you have to bother with super if everyone is getting $15,000 what about children.
I like the idea of 25% CGT thats good but no one will vote for it except mana party supporters!
massively increasing funding for underprivileged children another good idea the left likes as well!
Increasing the cost of student loans would undermine the motivation of our best and brightest to stay in country and add value dumb idea you should know being a free marketeer.
Getting rid of our defence force would bring immediate consequences from our trading partners the US Aus would probably reintroduce trade sanctions and arrest you with any luck!
Selling off TVNZ who’s going to buy old technology look at tv3 its worth nothing!
The man is an apostle with wings. He doesn’t see what the difference is between an airport and roads! wrylands I think. Quite wry.
Srylands, you make John Banks look moderate – not an easy job. Are you perhaps an elaborate joke by a lefty with a less-than-subtle sense of humour?
I’m only going to reply to a couple of you ravings (sorry, meant to say “comments”).
1) “Punitive welfare policies” – cutting a benefit in half if someone turns down a job (never mind if the hours are impossible with family commitments, or the person is trying for something in their area of expertise);
2) Just which of the last Labour government’s policies do you think we’re designed to pander to “unionist nut jobs”? Their policy to allow new workers access to a collective contract (or let them opt out and bargain for themselves, if they so desired)? Wow! Really radical… I can see why that one was tossed out so early! Perhaps it was their policy to abolish Youth Rates and pay for the job, rather than the age of the person doing it? I know: it must have been the policy to require workplaces to allow workers toilet breaks and half hour lunchtimes…. Actually, while they dumped the infamous Employment Contracts Act, the last Labour government was pretty conservative in the field of labour law, probably because they knew there were plenty of commentators like you waiting to pounce and accuse them of being in the pockets of the unions. (So much better to be in the pockets of foreign business interests, eh Srylands?)
“or the person is trying for something in their area of expertise” ?
so an unemployed social worker can turn down a job as a call centre worker (one of those cool jobs coming from Australia) and stay on welfare?
I don’t think so.
Not busy tonight?
Or just trolling for fun?
Paul
Yes wrylands is either working for a right wing think tank, is very involved with a RW movement such as the NACT party, is newly retired with time on his hands. Or is threatened in his narrow mindset by so many differing ideas, so many that he can’t get out his flyswat fast enough. He’ll burn out, or go nuts eventually, hope it is before us.
Normally I just ignore; however, it’s dull getting to the real discussions because there is so much troll traffic sometimes.
Thankfully, peoples dreams and interests aren’t subject to your idiocy. At least, they shouldn’t be. By the way, if someone rejects your shitty job, you should try paying them more.
Because being on welfare is better?
If the private sector can’t create decent paying jobs with a living wage they can go get fucked.
wrylands
Could be even a beneficiary can do a rough cost benefit calculation. If your pay and conditions are shitty enough it may be better having a low but regular amount coming in.
Of course if the wage payment is for part-time work and comes under the cap for allowable earnings then the low-paid employee can achieve a small advance in net income before the SWD discounts their base benefit till they get less income after working than that originally received from the state.
If the employers are paying wages below that needed to provide a living then the person receiving benefits are subsidising the employer.
“you should try paying them more.”
workers get paid according to their productivity. You can’t just “dial up” higher wages by regulation.
…and ‘productivity’ involves an employer deciding how much profit they want to make and adding that in as part of the ‘productivity’ equation.
The word is profitability in common parlance, ‘productivity’ is a catch-phrase employed to cover its real meaning.
um no you are wrong.
http://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/research-policy/tprp
Treasury, the bastion of bullshit orthodox economic thinking. Great.
Oh look here is another one. It isn’t just the New Zealand Treasury. But they are all wrong. And you know what you are talking about.
http://www.treasury.gov.au/PublicationsAndMedia/Speeches/2012/Importance-of-productivity
Another Treasury? Lol mate. Lesson 1: we need to abandon uneconomic growth. Now. Any august institution which doesn’t get that, doesn’t get the 21st century.
Oh yeah and we need to return to full employment. Our real economy is missing out on billions per year of real added value by the nonsense that keeping 15% of the population out of work is responsible and helpful.
Productivity isn’t everything that matters. But it is close enough.
Only the economic surplus and how it is distributed matters. “Productivity” is a bullshit concept which ducks this question.
“workers get paid according to their productivity. You can’t just “dial up” higher wages by regulation.”
As BL implied – its time to use a Marxian approach and move some of the economic surplus out of the hands of large corporations and into the hands of workers and small businesses.
And of course, you can dial up higher wages by regulation, just as you can dial in lower wages through deregulation and off-shoring.
You must think us stupid to try and run that past us.
“its time to use a Marxian approach and move some of the economic surplus out of the hands of large corporations and into the hands of workers and small businesses.”
Yes good luck with that. It is bound to work so well for a small economy like New Zealand with mobile capital and a large common labour pool next door with 25 million people. We will adopt a “marxian” approach. Sure that will make us better off. None of our regional neighbours will laugh hysterically. They will all gape in admiration. We will be the toast of APEC with our marxian approach.
Dickhead.
I see that last comment is signed “Dickhead”
How very appropriate.
Why should we be afraid of wealthy ‘investors’ withdrawing their paper and electronic wealth from NZ? We will still have all our physical resources, our hard working people, and our real economic assets right here.
And we can just issue more currency to put all those elements to work for the nation.
BL 🙂
Because our future prosperity depends on innovation. Also severe capital flight results in rapid depreciation and a fall in living standards. The tax base also erodes. You end up with the uneducated and the welfare recipients who have no skills to participate in a modern economy and little will or energy to do anything but play pokies and take drugs.
Why am I even explaining that capital flight is a bad thing? Physical resources alone mean fuck all. Look at PNG or Burma.
But by all means – convince David Shearer to come out and say “capital flight is not important – we can just issue more currency”. See what happens.
But capital flight isn’t important. Or rather, it is easily managed. Its just electronic numbers debited and credited. Our real physical wealth remains, and we can always issue new currency to make up for any losses of NZD overseas, and continue economic activity unhindered.
It’ll let the government nationalise assets on the cheap and permanently lower house prices for everyone, as shortsighted people liquidate and leave (to where??? NZ is the best place in the world to live).
Further, where do you think people are going to put their electronic digitised “wealth”? NZ is a great place for it. Can you get more yield elsewhere? Of course. But buying into more paper assets in foreign financial markets is the equivalent of picking up dollar coins in front of a steamroller. Do so at your own risk.
Finally, you speak of “innovation” but you can’t see one inch beyond orthodox economic and monetary policy.
schrilands workers don’t get paid according to their productivity thats just more bullshiT.
Under National they get the minimum wage under act they would nothing like the korean fishing boats!
“workers get paid according to their productivity”
lol no they don’t, nothing like it. That’s one reason why wages are so low.
workers get paid according to their productivity
Thanks for highlighting that one – I was skimming the thread, but having seen that I don’t need to read anything else. Srylands is an ideologue, an imbecile or a liar – whichever, there’s no need to waste any time on them.
Doesn’t look like Bennett has missed a meal in a while.
Surprised the PC brigade haven’t caned you for that comment 😈
Me too – especially since a quick squizz at the people on the customer side of the counter in a WINZ office could prompt a person to “jokes” about how they don’t look to have missed a meal in a while either.