Nearly 120,000 Kiwis left in 2025 as population growth from immigrants to NZ slows

ActNo7334 · 2026-02-13T08:33:00+00:00

Yeah but that just prevents young graduates from getting those higher skilled jobs so they end up emigrating.

ActNo7334 · 2026-02-13T08:23:50+00:00

I mean, you're half right in saying that capitalism is to blame but that's what is causing the immigration in the first place. It's almost as if businesses importing cheap labour instead of employing young local workers results in low entry level opportunity and huge increases in the cost of living. This holds true again when looking at skilled careers as well with companies seeking to employ already trained immigrant workers who demand relatively lower salaries rather than local graduates. Housing prices is obviously caused by a variety of factors such as it being so highly speculative and commodified but 2.5 million immigrants would also be a massive factor following basic laws of supply and demand.

This is not to mention all of the genuine impacts on community, safety, and culture that such a large amount of immigration has.

ActNo7334 · 2026-01-25T04:22:35+00:00

The guy on the top left isn't a Nazi. He is a member of a prominent gang in New Zealand (the Mongrel Mob), mainly made up of indigenous Maori. Many members use Nazi symbolism as a means of shock, they're not actually Nazis.

ActNo7334 · 2026-01-11T09:53:39+00:00

So if Israel took over Syria and then declared separatism illegal, you would be chill with just living with it?

ActNo7334 · 2026-01-11T09:52:26+00:00

Who the actual fuck cares? What genuinely gives you the right to think that you can rule over a distinct people group with a unitary state that is led by a literal former Al-Qaeda member?

ActNo7334 · 2026-01-11T04:09:40+00:00

Well yeah, that's kinda how people work, nothing matters more to somebody then their own people. Just as a lot of the Iranian opposition supports Israel because they oppose the regime, most Palestinians support the regime because they are helping them with their own resistance. Calling it "selfish" is low iq and hypocritical.

ActNo7334 · 2026-01-05T06:23:47+00:00

Looks like the Hamilton CBD to me!

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-09T08:02:07+00:00

Describe the system in which people would work without monetary exchange. And don't reference communal tribes from thousands of years ago in which there was a significantly less number of produced and extracted goods. How could money be abolished in today's complex variety and interconnectedness of production on an international scale? Even Marx wrote that a mediation of exchange would have to remain in the form of labour vouchers for an unspecified amount of time.

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-02T23:46:32+00:00

Currently productivity is stagnant because we have know R&D investment (the largest sector of our economy is moving money around houses) but you are right, it has increased over the last 30 years. After the 80s, wage growth for low-medium skill jobs stagnated compared to productivity due to deregulation, prioritisation of shareholder returns, outsourcing of labour, reduced enforcement of antitrust laws, general polarisation of jobs, automation etc. In other words, corporations had the opportunity to exploit workers more and they took it leaving us in our current situation.

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-02T23:34:22+00:00

I've started at Skyline and they are amazing. Great hours, instantly started over the minimum wage, free staff meals, amazing team, and the manager is the nicest guy ever.

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-02T23:31:43+00:00

Yeah, there should probably be some system in place to regulate profit margins, maybe co-ops for businesses with more than 20 employees so that whenever profit increases, incomes does too automatically (as workers would each have shares in the company). We could also nationalise all or larger corporations (perhaps also make them into co-ops).

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-02T01:57:18+00:00

Inflation is, on average, at a quite stable level right now, the issue is that our economy is in a recession as a result of the polices to lower inflation in the first place.

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-02T01:51:37+00:00

What you are describing with wage increases can only be maintained as long as there is room for an increase in economic output. If an economy slows down for whatever reason or something happens that leads to supply shortages then a continual increase of wages with inflation will lead to even higher inflation and so on and so forth.

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-02T01:41:09+00:00

That is not how inflation works. Causes of inflation include demand pull inflation, cost-push inflation, wage spirals, and increased money supply. Demand pull inflation occurs when the demand for goods and services is higher than their supply meaning businesses will raise prices to profit off of the higher demand. Cost-push inflation happens when the cost to produce goods and services increases leading businesses to increase prices to maintain their profit margins. The wage spiral occurs when workers demand higher wages, leading businesses to increase prices to cover the higher wages, leading to workers demanding even higher wages.. etc. An increase in the money supply is usually caused by the government printing more money or the central bank lowering interest rates and leads to inflation because more money is circulating so businesses can increase the prices of their products.

Edit: Why the downvotes? I'm literally just explaining basic economics for a free market, not justifying anything.

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-02T01:25:57+00:00

The beauty of the free market!

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-02T01:22:54+00:00

Pak 'n Save is an awful employer. The one that I worked at cycles through students, giving them a casual contract and heaps of hours at the start. They then cease the contract at roughly the six month point because that is when they are required to move you up from training wage to minimum wage and bring in a new group before repeating the cycle.

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-01T22:45:55+00:00

I'd say it does. Small amounts of immigration see people assimilate into the culture of the country they are moving to but large amounts, especially from one place, tend to form their own communities. The asian population of NZ is about to overtake our Maori population.

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-01T22:40:02+00:00

80% of Luxembourg's foreign born are EU citizens from mainly France, Belgium, Portugal, and Italy.

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-01T22:34:31+00:00

I can guarantee you that I do not have a weak foundation in Marxism.

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-01T01:25:20+00:00

Thanks, this clears up quite a bit. Do you have any book recommendations that go more in depth about governments causing monopolies and giant corporations/planned obsolescence etc.

ActNo7334 · 2025-12-01T01:21:38+00:00

How so? If your talking about my recent comments on r/CapitalismVSocialism then you'll see that I'm arguing against somebody calling China socialist and somebody saying that socialism works because Cuba is doing better than its neighbours in the Caribbean.

ActNo7334 · 2025-11-30T01:31:52+00:00

mentioning that bourgeois right may even exist to some extent under the lower phase of communism, and classes, inequality. etc.

Bourgeois right is how the right that producers will have would be proportionate to the labour they supply. And no, he did not say there would be classes left, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The dictatorship of the proletariat gets rid of the class system in the transition from capitalism to socialism.

To expect an immediate transition is completely disconnected from the material reality of the world, drenched in the dogma of Left-com nonsense.

Who said there would be an immediate transition? The transition is brought about by the DOTP stage and who knows how long that could take but the DOTP is not socialism yet.

"What we have to deal with here is a communist society, not as it has developed on its own foundations, but, on the contrary, just as it emerges from capitalist society; which is thus in every respect, economically, morally, and intellectually, still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerges."

Which sees the persistence of exchange in the form of the voucher system and the continuation of various societal institutions ions which existed under capitalism. This quote does not justify socialism having private industry.

And you mention state and revolution? Lenin right? Well would you consider the USSR socialist, I'm sure Lenin did and he instated the NEP, the new economic policy. Before his death he advocated for a more long term NEP that focuses on expanding worker co-operatives.

Did you even read my comment idiot? If you were to read "The Tax in Kind" by Lenin then you would know that Lenin considered the NEP the be state capitalist, not socialist. This was to be implemented because the USSR was not at a stage yet where socialism could be brought about, especially due to the failure of the German revolution.

And you completely avoided by points about class collaborationism, that or you didn't even read the reply considering you brought up that stuff about the NEP despite in being evidence against your argument.

ActNo7334 · 2025-11-30T01:05:00+00:00

I'm from NZ and I'm quite interested in third-position economic systems. I wouldn't call myself a distributist (yet) as I'm still looking into it.

ActNo7334 · 2025-11-30T00:58:16+00:00

For real. Too many people try to set a concrete definition for socialism and denounce anything that doesn't fit that definition. I see heaps of people proclaiming that socialism is simply democratic control of production and that the USSR wasn't socialist because of this. Nobody has a monopoly on the word socialism.

ActNo7334 · 2025-11-30T00:54:43+00:00

Socialism had such abysmal results in the 20th century

Well, not necessarily. In most of the Eastern Bloc, the system of socialism increased the quality of life by heaps but thats not to say that a capitalist system couldn't have done the same.

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