For any law enforcement who may be reading this, I meant “dear CEO”, not dead. But once again, I can’t edit it on mobile. This post is not a death threat. Please don’t arrest me.
🙋Well - it does fit perfectly with your theme of Lux-flakes & the like being dead "inside"? 🤔 I don't wish any of them DEAD before their natural time, but I do wish those with no empathy & humanity GONE from influence, now & into the future 💯
the problem is being dead gets them out of power, so there’s some genuine upsides other than them just not being alive anymore. But in Luxon’s case I doubt his replacement would be any better…
🤭Confession - I HAVE bought stuff via Amazon when I have exhausted all suppliers in Aotearoa for an item I needed to fit a specific niche, and I don't feel at all guilty. The ones to blame for bad employment practices are those in charge - we could still have nice things & treat workers ethically. 🤷 & I am sick of the "either/or" mentality of these people - including telling us we can't have a Dunedin hospital completion (after MILLIONS have already been spent on it) because then we would have to miss out on essentials we want -?? like tax cuts for the tiny minority of people in Aotearoa who are landlords?? Or hugely expensive roads for the districts represented by minority govt MP's?? 🤬
The thing with living in under unethical capitalism is the only way to abstain is to disadvantage yourself, and it’s a competitive system. You can choose when to do this, and how much to do it, but it’s practically impossible to do it all the time or even most of the time. And it does take up a lot of effort to try, effort that would more effectively spent through (for example) supporting unionisation protection laws and the like (if you were in the US). Personal choices aren’t meaningless but it’s easy to think they’re making a greater impact than they are.
One of those systematic things where individual choices will just never do enough, I think, without an existing movement to feed into somehow.
Likely he also feels he must act on behalf of the Landlords. All those Wellington CBD rents and property prices put at risk would probably keep him awake at night!
Likely he also feels he must act on behalf of the Landlords. All those Wellington CBD rents and property prices put at risk would probably keep him awake at night!
For any law enforcement who may be reading this, I meant “dear CEO”, not dead. But once again, I can’t edit it on mobile. This post is not a death threat. Please don’t arrest me.
🙋Well - it does fit perfectly with your theme of Lux-flakes & the like being dead "inside"? 🤔 I don't wish any of them DEAD before their natural time, but I do wish those with no empathy & humanity GONE from influence, now & into the future 💯
the problem is being dead gets them out of power, so there’s some genuine upsides other than them just not being alive anymore. But in Luxon’s case I doubt his replacement would be any better…
🤭Confession - I HAVE bought stuff via Amazon when I have exhausted all suppliers in Aotearoa for an item I needed to fit a specific niche, and I don't feel at all guilty. The ones to blame for bad employment practices are those in charge - we could still have nice things & treat workers ethically. 🤷 & I am sick of the "either/or" mentality of these people - including telling us we can't have a Dunedin hospital completion (after MILLIONS have already been spent on it) because then we would have to miss out on essentials we want -?? like tax cuts for the tiny minority of people in Aotearoa who are landlords?? Or hugely expensive roads for the districts represented by minority govt MP's?? 🤬
Enjoy your trip 👍
The thing with living in under unethical capitalism is the only way to abstain is to disadvantage yourself, and it’s a competitive system. You can choose when to do this, and how much to do it, but it’s practically impossible to do it all the time or even most of the time. And it does take up a lot of effort to try, effort that would more effectively spent through (for example) supporting unionisation protection laws and the like (if you were in the US). Personal choices aren’t meaningless but it’s easy to think they’re making a greater impact than they are.
One of those systematic things where individual choices will just never do enough, I think, without an existing movement to feed into somehow.
Confession: I don't know who Jassy is either!
You have a pretty good excuse, Tui, you didn’t even know Seymour was evil until last year!
haha Sapphi Touche!
Finally … my ‘comment’❗️
https://substack.philpin.com/p/was-he-any-good
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnquigginblog/p/in-their-plaintive-call-for-a-return
Luckily, reality has a progressive bias
Likely he also feels he must act on behalf of the Landlords. All those Wellington CBD rents and property prices put at risk would probably keep him awake at night!
Likely he also feels he must act on behalf of the Landlords. All those Wellington CBD rents and property prices put at risk would probably keep him awake at night!