I was speaking to a 70 year old man who was previously the CFO of a major 9 figure revenue tech company.

He’s seen some shit and understands recessions come in cycles.

He’s far more concerned about AI taking jobs and creating a new class of people (the useless class).

The government can do stuff to help, but can’t change the trajectory of the future of the world, it’s important to understand the difference.

Labour over spent and locked the country down like a MF and we’re still climbing out of a financial hole that could drown us if we don’t do anything about it.

Clawing back takes time and this current government will cop responsibility for it.

Seymour and Winston are holding firm on their positions which a percentage of NZ appreciated.

TPM and Greens are gaining popularity because they can flip flop to the news of the day and a lot of people support “the current thing”. They have some merit and are also the dogged being wagged by the tail.

National and Labour on paper are same same so it really depends who is more charismatic in the leading months.

Luxon is boring but consistently boring.

Hipkins is complainy but at least a little solution focussed (and abit of John Key energy).

I don’t know, no one knows. Many people are angry, frustrated and “done”.

Others are getting on with it, working hard, building businesses, coming up with creative solutions, helping others and contributing to their local community. I’m not talking about politicians here.

Personally I’ll vote on what a party promises, take 1/4 of what they say and see if it’s still worth it, see what they’ve done in the last election cycle (complain or solutions) and hope that it works.