Yes, I agree with all of this That we need to start measuring 'growth' in a more nuanced and multidimensional manner. I see the first aim in this measuring should be to account for environmental and social costs - so-called 'externalities' at the time of ...
Interesting notion. You believe humans will stop exploitation of the environment, plants, animals and even humans, before extinction occurs? The moa, dodo and trawling for orange roughy as well as hypoxic lakes and carbon at 412ppm (and a multitude of ...
I wonder what a tax trade-off of GST on food for a tax on capital gains will do? (a la the Key & English - income tax & GST trade-off)
Thanks - will look that up
Yep, I'm not seeing the downsides. I'm seeing problems if we don't address the social and cultural upheaval, for sure and humans are a bit shite at this - regressing into nationalism and all the other isms, but it can be avoided. Compare for example ...
A fair primer - but he's still talking within the economic growth model, not beyond it - does he have an alternative paradigm - and does he have it in writing, rather than video format?
One of the better opinions about decling global population I've read - obviously because it fits my world view. However, there's a lot for those who still believe in the economic growth paradigm to think about - it doesn't demonise 'over-populated poor ...
we aren't good at planning ahead here Exactly - a capitalist economic model, based on private enterprise providing for a diverse population, only when it can make $$ doesn't work as well as a social democratic model that plans for its people's needs. Some...
Because the planning is done by the local govt (and they're very good at it) the state has planned and built well ahead of need, despite rapid population growth.
"if the private rental market is working well, and is providing affordable accomodations, then there will be a lot less pressure on the housing system as a whole, including social housing." It's the other way aound in Vienna. The social housing market ...
You write as if there is only one option. There are others, and Vienna's social housing system operating since the 1930s, tweaked in the 1980s to include private developers competitions to build masses of mixed housing, is very hard to beat in terms of ...
I live in inner city Wellington too. I walk to work and have to step on to the road frequently due to over-full footpaths. Cycling is far too dangerous for me right now, but sometimes I see more bikes than cars on my walking commute. I can't wait for the ...
I'm crediting or blaming the brightline rule https://www.ird.govt.nz/property/buying-and-selling-residential-property/the-brightline-property-rule
Still present but inactive on FB and LinkedIn for family/work. But that's all. I dont't really see the standard as "social media" in the same context as Ad seems to - and it's comments like their response here that are one of the reasons I rarely comment ...
I thought the savings were because the government could borrow at better rates than local councils and not a subsidisation from other councils? For councils with higher future costs the savings are going to be greater that for those with that wouldn't have...
I found it was time to leave Twitter - the comments were getting far too much. Anyway when Musk bought Twitter I saaid I'd stay as long I was helping him lose money, but he now says he's breaking even, so on two counts was time to leave it to the ...
Except they're not honest about anything. Have you seen their MPs? There's a reason they've been told to stay quiet. Seymour has no stance on social issues, he just sees the way the wind is blowing and goes with that. I doubt any of them can keep up. You'd...
I know what she means. You should see how my my hands scared I am writing what I'm thinking. I'd NEVER be able to get up and say what I thought in front of her, or transactivists - positions are so entrenched I don't feel there is much space to say "I see ...
I understand your view. It's difficult when there's a clash of rights - especially around safety. I still believe we can get this right for all, but right now change to the detriment of women and trans people is happening while women are looking towards ...
Sorry it it read badly, - I thought I'd addressed the parts of what you said in separate clauses - bad style not bad faith.
"Who is saying that KJK is on the side of leftist women?" - No-one afaik, I'm saying exactly the opposite - I don't understand why leftist women would support KJK. "LWS is more than KJK." - Yes. But if I were them, I would not be associated with KJK - ...
"... I suspect it's that fascism is the worst wrong, she's GC *and works with the far right..." This is my view fascism - and the grifting - (but I don't agree with the last part of your sentence - some behaviours can never be justified). In an attempt to ...
I thought so too. I love a bit of context around a big, big concepts.
I largely agree with your point about pākehā insecurity. I don't see Morgan Godfrey's musings as pandering to that. I like the way he's situated mātauranga māori as something more than, but included in, western scientific concepts.
Morgan Godfrey's musing while mowing the lawn are worth reading in this context. https://twitter.com/MorganGodfery/status/1634686779482853376?s=20 ... western knowledge is normally separated and categorised. that’s as true for science as it is for, say, ...
It might be a bit cynical - but generally when I see something prevocative like this these days, I assume it's a deliberate plan to create social media noise. I must do some researching on it, but it just seems so like the Bannon-type messaging, I think ...
I think it's worse than that. I think KitchenAid is being utterly cynical in creating content by manufacturing outrage. Most feminist (I would guess) aren't interested in that ad existing - not because its a transwoman fronting it, but because it's so ...
Is promoting a women's place is in the kitchen super acceptable now that Dylan is a [hashtag] Kitchen Aid ambassador? A whole generation of feminist work to fight for women to be accepted as fully-capable humans broken on a marble benchtop.
The common characterisitic of those leaders that didn't slaughter their own people is a strong democracy. How far do you think the apparently English-speaking Trump would have gone if the US democratic process was any weaker than it is? However, democracy ...
Strange how Willis didn't mention she went to Kings to finish her education. She's only 2 years older than Uffendell so could have had something to say about the culture there. https://www.magzter.com/stories/Womens-Interest/Australian-Womens-Weekly-NZ/...
Well put. We are a long way from the Vienna model indeed, and the Greens policy won't bring us any closer. I also noted that the Greens policy was working with the status quo rather than attempting to change it. I do think, however, that a rent ...
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