If technology is so irrelevant - why did we not have woman's suffrage 10,000 years ago? Why did it all arrive pretty much all at once, in most places in the world, in the immediate period of the Industrial Revolution?
New Zealand was considerably more remote and less developed than the USA or Britain during this period. It was literally at the far side of the planet, isolated and lacking even basic communications, travel or institutional infrastructure. In this light ...
I think you will find it relates to complaints from Turkish people about the flood of Russian propaganda they're seeing.
Hitler comparisons usually skate on pretty thin ice - and this one is no exception. Yet there is a lesson to be taken from it, that Hitler's monstrous rise to power was not just due to the Nazi's historical revisionism and invoking of racial superiority - ...
In other words you know perfectly well the point I was making - but you choose to pretend otherwise. As for the rest of your quote wall - yeah we knew all of this here at TS over a decade ago. Over time I've seen variations on this same conversation that ...
Don't know. And I don't have time for intellectual dishonesty.
Your argument is blind to the impact of technology on culture. Over and again we see technical progress opening the door for social change to follow. Now this does not discount the important work of those who had to advocate and sometimes struggle for ...
Because we incentivised property investment, Again I have good news for you. If you don't want to compete with everyone else in the property market - as I suggested at the outset you might want to consider building a new house.
Knowing how to interpret the snapshot means we have a fairly good inkling of what the next snapshot will look like, don’t you agree? Yes and no. From what we know across all creative domains, that over time the Pareto Principle seems to inexorably apply. ...
I meant that if you think owning your own home is cheaper than renting - then you have every chance to undercut your landlord.
Britain was having full censuses by the time New Zealand was getting settled. New Zealand held it's first census in 1851, but it only covered non-Maori who had a permanent 'household'. And while a census might well be useful for determining the size and ...
@Incognito Yes - and both collateral and future earning potential are typically a function of time. And both change as the years pass by. A 20yr old may well have a modest personal collateral - and a highly variable future earning potential. A 60yr old is ...
If instead this cartoon was addressing say - the ranking of academic paper cites, or income earned from the arts, or sporting achievement - would it look much different?
The most important factor not captured by that cartoon is - time.
How does a renter save for a deposit when the growth in house prices is outpacing inflation, wage increases don't meet inflation and 30+% of their weekly income is spent on rent alone? Now you are asking the right question. Why is property so expensive in...
Good news, go to this website: https://qv.co.nz/ Type in the address of the home you are living in and this will give you an idea of the market value. If as you believe your landlord is nothing but a tax-payer subsidised parasite, you should have no ...
Landlords don't charge less than a mortgage, they charge as much as the 'market' can support. Wonderful!. So as I said above - pop down to your local friendly bank and explain this to them. Let us know how you get on.
This is the kind of absurdity you get when you view history through the lens of the present. The question you have to ask is - by what practical means could you determine who was eligible to vote? Because even today we strictly control this with electoral ...
If you decide you want to go to a concert the night before - when all the tickets were sold out two months earlier - then maybe paying a scalper a premium is your only choice. But a landlord charges you less than what it would cost for you to buy that ...
It seems a bit more complex than this. In their own words: https://ngaitahu.iwi.nz/our_stories/charitable-status-tk78/ There is an argument to be made both ways, but in general it seems that if profits can be shown to be used for a 'charitable purpose' ...
Now I am confused. If your landlord is providing a house you could not otherwise afford to live in - exactly who is the parasite here?
they are prey for parasitic landlords.. I understand. If you are so unahappy about your landlord you should apply for a mortgage and build your own house. Problem solved! Happy to help.
On one hand you have not pointed to any actual TMP policy you would support, and on the other you say you approve of them becoming part of a coalition govt. More than a whiff of wishful thinking going on here.
No, I don't support return of all conservation estates to Māori tribal control. Good - I appreciate that. I am old enough to have encountered the last of the old NZFS bushman culture, Maori pig hunters and possumers, and even that archetypal rogue Barry ...
Don't generalise the aims of Māori as a race from TPM's policies. True - and I fully understand that. But the logical corollary of this is that being opposed to TPM policy does not automatically imply someone must be racist. But otherwise this looks like ...
A very good article - thank you. Our situation here in NZ is different in many respects, but the underlying story of an unravelling social cohesion is not dissimilar. And in some ways Ukraine is perversely fortunate in having an external force to unite ...
Not to worry - I'm sure the paying guests of the local iwi will have no problems.
Same here. A close mate in Brisbane who strongly identifies as Maori has nothing but visceral contempt for this separatist irredentism. So much so it isn't a safe topic of conversation. But I do accept that n=1 does not make for useful electoral ...
I think the presumption in your question is that either the Greens or TMP could provide the numbers - then I would choose Green. Frankly neither prospect fills me with joy - just a case of least worst. Both parties having somehow managed the remarkable ...
While I agree with some of your sentiment, esp re the hat, it would be a mistake to underestimate the serious intent behind this. We don't have to look too far to see this same 'decolonisation' agenda playing out: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/...
I think the big strategy is to leverage the Treaty as far as they can, then ditch it in favour of an argument for full political and economic tribal hegemony based on their interpretation of the UNDRIP.
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