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.
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’.
Thanks for resharing. Good info. But its impossible to convince certain mindsets about the randomness of success. Society keeps insisting on and glorifying the myth that any individual can exceed on their own merits alone. Its utter BS. So much of what we currently deem as success is more about luck and prevailing currents than it is about individual competency
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.
Personally as a public servant and seeing the incredible wastage across two govt depts and out of touch national offices in Wellington stuffing themselves with more and more highly paid advisors over the last 5 years while contributing zip to the Frontline I am praying for more Wellington job losses.
No, New Zealand has a hustling grifter in the role of PM.
And master negotiator as honed by his M&A experience
"Let me be clear: I'm wealthy, I'm ‒ you know ‒ sorted." Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
Nothing more to say really.
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.
Follow the money. The getting people back to the office IS ONLY about building owners, office, retail and hospitality are just rent payers.
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’.
Holy crap I didn’t even know Amazon’s CEO did the same thing. Bad fucking look, Luxon.
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
Thanks for resharing. Good info. But its impossible to convince certain mindsets about the randomness of success. Society keeps insisting on and glorifying the myth that any individual can exceed on their own merits alone. Its utter BS. So much of what we currently deem as success is more about luck and prevailing currents than it is about individual competency
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He’s a mouthpiece for capitalism, not a leader.
I don't even think it's genuine capitalism. I think it's paternalistic feudalism.
@Cristina THIS !!!!!
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.
Commercial landlords did donate 500k to the National Party so of course everyone needs to be back in the office.
The biggest inept micro manager I have ever witnessed.
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Luxon isn’t the CEO. He’s the evil Robber Baron.
Personally as a public servant and seeing the incredible wastage across two govt depts and out of touch national offices in Wellington stuffing themselves with more and more highly paid advisors over the last 5 years while contributing zip to the Frontline I am praying for more Wellington job losses.
As an ex public servant I totally agree but the cuts will never be to those people.
Yip- been there, earned my stripes and got out ASAP.