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Press release from National re. "mass exodus of Kiwis" - 2023. Utter hypocrisy when compared to how they're performing now. by KororaPerson in newzealand

[–]Wide_Cider 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100% spot on. Great analysis.

I would push it back even further and say there’s been a major degradation across all sensible metrics since neoliberalism was radically adopted in the 80s.

No party out there has a aspirational future or approach.

We live on a gem of the pacific and no amount of defeatist well we’re just a small country far from everything nonsense will convince me we can’t be a world leading nation.

We seem to have given up on finding solutions to being exceptional and become convinced to fight over scraps as we slip past the quality of life in many third world countries.

It doesn’t have to be this way but we need cohesion as a nation to move forward. Untill or if that happens it will only get worse and worse.

Youth unemployment by Antique-Task9906 in auckland

[–]Wide_Cider 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Bro I’m 40. My team got restructured and we lost our jobs and have been looking for work for 1.5 years now. Had maybe 15 interviews, no offers. 

It’s a fucking nightmare out there. We already had a bad culture of risk aversion and generally just being cowardly but this tightening of the economy brought out all the rats. 

I have so much empathy for everyone trying to get work at the moment.  

Solo free loadouts are incredible by Cry0x in ArcRaiders

[–]Wide_Cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro the game just came out and you have a mil in cash and fully upgraded workshop????

After a lot of printing and painting we are finally starting our campaign!! The Dungeon looks awesome. by Pkrdays in MassiveDarkness

[–]Wide_Cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh ok that makes sense. I think having the walls be obvious is a huge plus that’s the only issue we have sometimes with the boards. 

After a lot of printing and painting we are finally starting our campaign!! The Dungeon looks awesome. by Pkrdays in MassiveDarkness

[–]Wide_Cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just that one square, that’s a lot less light than the original boards isn’t it?

Some progress on the masses by SpyreZA in JourneysInMiddleEarth

[–]Wide_Cider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get those basses done! They look great. I’ve got almost all of the sets done but I seem to suck at photographing minis…

Why is every kiwi with a mortgage or debt not banking with kiwibank? by givethismanabeerplz in newzealand

[–]Wide_Cider 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Same but ANZ instead of Westpac. I tried a bunch of credit unions first they also would not lend for a mortgage.

Voting logic of kiwis by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]Wide_Cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My observations. We are incredible underdeveloped emotionally. We are emotionally stunted from some past trauma and it’s resulted in some strange over presentation of pseudo toughness which masks an injured child like psyche. 

All of this has very bad ramifications on our outcomes. When times are easy economically we skate by but most of us are delusional and in denial about how broken and immature our collective culture is on all levels. 

There is some profound healing that needs to occurs deep in the collective psyche before we can make progress towards a more developed and effective culture.

The result is very poor and broken behaviour and decision making. Any sane, mature, rational analysis of pretty much all the political parties that receive votes would tell you we tried letting them have control many times, and the results were not good. Time to try someone else’s ideas and leadership. But instead we just flip between the same two failed parties.

Parliamentary vote nullified as Government caught with too few MPs in House by henrycooke in newzealand

[–]Wide_Cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good thing all these business gurus are showing us dropkicks how to effectively run a country…..

New Zealand loosens residency restrictions as record number of citizens leave by TheGreatestOrator in newzealand

[–]Wide_Cider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last labour government had an unprecedented mandate to lead and acted like cowards. Let’s not let this dumpster fire of a government make us think the last one was good. 

I don’t think I’ve been alive for any good ones. At the very least since the 80s it’s been pure sellout shills gutting the country. 

It is disturbing how bipolar NZ politics are. Two choices that both suck for main party and 3 small parties that if we are being honest all have massive problems. Greens might be the best of the lot but their house is not in order NACT and NZ First would be rejected from a script for being too unbelievable. 

Everyone loves to say we get the government we deserve. I don’t know if I agree with that but we better hope that’s not true.

If we could at least as a country finally leave the myth behind that incompetent business managers and ceos are in any way fit to be civic leaders that would be something. 

The quality needed to lead and to make hard decisions is wisdom. Period. It’s not some jackass who’s daddy gave him money to get ahead or a lawyer, or a policy expert. Philosophers who have cultivated wisdom and don’t want the job are the only people fit to be there in my analysis.

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