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No, New Zealand has a hustling grifter in the role of PM.

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Sep 25Liked by Sapphi

And...possibly it's sudenly hitting home that rents for all that office space and retail space might fall and even property prices themselves!! As every good neoliberal knows, this will bring about the end of civilisation.

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Follow the money. The getting people back to the office IS ONLY about building owners, office, retail and hospitality are just rent payers.

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Sep 23Liked by Sapphi

👍🏻

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A longer comment will be forthcoming but meanwhile similar instructions emanated from the ‘office of jassy’ .. with a lot more reaction .. because clearly Luxon doesn’t have the pull of someone who ‘runs a large shop in the US’.

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Holy crap I didn’t even know Amazon’s CEO did the same thing. Bad fucking look, Luxon.

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Just dropping this link in here .. an entire post that all started here as a comment …

https://substack.philpin.com/p/was-he-any-good

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It’s not about the coffee. It is not about the cafes.

It’s the building owners. FOLLOW THE MONEY!

Nat have scored an own goal by destroying retail in Wellington, and the property developers will enforce rental on the business owners till the day they close or move.

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He’s a mouthpiece for capitalism, not a leader.

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I don't even think it's genuine capitalism. I think it's paternalistic feudalism.

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👏🏾💯👍🏾🤬

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Luxon isn’t the CEO. He’s the evil Robber Baron.

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