Of course young Kiwis are fleeing NZ – why wouldn’t they?

This country has become the Land of the wrong white crowd and the only solutions the political Left have are virtue signalling identity politics that only alienate while the Right sells endless selfishness.

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The Westpac TV advert reminds all children that the only way you will get a house in this fucking country is if a mythical Yeti turns up and builds it for you.

I say this to young NZ – flee!

NZ is a user pays society that has dumped any pretence of egalitarianism. Your student debt locks you out of home ownership and the broken housing market only benefits speculators while crushing first time home buyers.

The neoliberalism in NZ has rigged the game against you.

Wages have been suppressed by de-unionising the workforce, subsistence living and poverty are the norm and public services have been endlessly eroded.

Flee.

This country has become the Land of the wrong white crowd and the only solutions the political Left have are virtue signalling identity politics that only alienate while the Right sells endless selfishness.

Flee.

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Our suicide rates speak of a dark treacle at the heart of our nature that whispers dark truths we never want to hear.

Flee.

We have built our economy on the sandcastles of hyper tourism, exploiting migrant workers and International Student Language School scams.

The secret to our economy is stealing Māori land and never paying it back.

Flee.

Run from the failed experiment of neoliberalism that is New Zealand.

We have failed ourselves and our blunders shouldn’t blight your futures.

Flee.

The Big Tech Tzars have manipulated our collective fear, ego, anger and insecurities through social media in a way that has led to the largest psychological civil war ever launched against one another.

We are but meat bags secreting hormones addicted to dopamine rewards for fat, sugar, salt and sex in a cultural landscape of individualism uber alles where we sing sweet secret lies to ourselves to make sense of a world around us that is frightening and in constant entropy.

Meanwhile, the planet burns and every aspect of our existence is monetarised for big data to sell us more stuff we can’t afford. We are alienated and anesthetized by a consumer culture that keeps us neurotic and disconnected. Our work, our existence, every move we make are all built to suck money to a minority class that sits above us while under neoliberalism, globalization, financialization, and automation, our existence as individuals has only become more disposable.

Flee for we are a Nation of cursed hollow men with no memory and no vision.

Flee.

We will see you home when you realise the planet is burning. May your shock at how bad it is spur you to wake this moribund political corpse on this Shaky Isles.

Fly you fools.

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56 COMMENTS

  1. Wages have also be suppressed and housing costs sent into the stratosphere through mass migration… but who cares about the facts, right?

      • True. Look at the proportions of those native-born populations living overseas relative to ours. A real outlier. So you are saying the primary negative impact of mass inward migration is on housing costs?

      • Both Canada and Australia extract their respective mineral wealth hence their economies are much stronger. We could do the same.

    • Spot on rough beast and the size of Aussie can cope with rampant migrant increases, we simply can’t without significant investment and that simply wasn’t done under Nationals ponzi scheme.

  2. The quicker things get worse the better. Change only occurs when it needs to.
    The solutions are waiting.

  3. The problem is flee where. Australia is a mirror image of us only with higher wages and poisonous spiders. The USA is a cesspit of ignorance, violence and repression. Europe is one button push away from annihilation. The world that was open to us young privileged boomers to wander at will is closed and dangerous.
    Stay.
    Stay and fight.

    • if upcoming generations can’t afford housing current speculators are in for a nasty shock when they come to realise their ‘nest egg’, ‘value’ is only what something is sold for on the day and if no one can buy?

    • Exactly, we are heading into a period of global instability with black swans and grey rhinos to spare. Super bubbles and debt crisis, likely stagflation, food, fertiliser, energy and commodity supply shortages, demographic collapse in the ‘advanced’ economies, breakdown of globalisation and a geopolitical reshuffle with a return to closed trading networks, often in conflict with each other, in addition to impacts of climate change.

      Potential outcomes could include a switch to burning far more coal for energy (re-carbonisation), european neo-colonialism in north and western africa to direct resources north not east, about 1-2 billion deaths mostly from famine. Trade route disruption, militarisation, conflict, war, nation states collapsing, refugee crisis and more.

      Even if that’s wildly pessimistic and only a tiny fraction comes to pass, being in a country that is physically distant from conflict zones with the ability to provide the basics like water, food and energy for it’s population is not a bad thing.

      I don’t disagree with Martyn’s view but advising young people to flee seems to contradict a belief of global shocks becoming the norm and in the benefit and inevitability of ‘Fortress Aotearoa’.

    • Agree with all that Peter H. Go as a tourist by all means but live here in Aotearoa.
      It is the best place if you can make the money stretch. Most do.
      Poverty and Low pay is not confined to NZ. Theres’s lots to work on but ultimately
      this is a great country. Hungary looks swell, would like some of that over here.

  4. We fled Ross for Hokitika. We fled Hokitika for Greymouth. We fled Greymouth for Christchurch. We fled Christchurch for Sydney. We fled Sydney for London.
    The streets of London were paved in gold.

    In another part of the cycle we fled the streets of London which were paved in shit to the dreams and hope of the gold in Ross.

    • Of course Mudflap, normally a PM would stay home and join the neighbourhood watch group.

      Five Houses were shot. Clearly not ok but slight difference.

    • Oi Mudflap
      Be fair here Flapper – no PM plans their/them/its/his/her trip around probable shootings! That’s ridiculous crap Muddy! Shootings can happen anytime – and now they do everyday. Because they can! The problem is three-fold for me: 1. Our judicial system is somewhat fucked. Judges are just too soft. Our sentences are too lenient. What is a life sentence…oh it’s 10 years. 2. Our poor cops are total underdogs without guns – remember Indiana Jones vs the massive sword in Kairo? Koster watch that scene again and again and fucking arm your cops – with assault weapons!!! We need to give instant respect to our cops, not sell them out. 3. We sit there with thumbs up our arse while AUS unload their 501s. We should say “Ocker, you are not fucking landing that plane anywhere in NZ. It’s our airspace, Fuck off!” Just for some icing on the cake, wouldn’t it be nice if Potatoe and SoftKost got sacked. They just dish out the love to the crims.

  5. NZ has lost its attraction. A narrow rentier class has gained control since 1984 that seeks to exploit its own people to make unearned profit and capital gain. This group are our central planners. The private foreign banks, The user pays crowd who know the price tag of everything but not the value! ” There’s no such thing as Society! ”
    The government colludes with its masters by refusing to levy a Capital gains tax and further taxes such as a financial transactions tax to redistribute to lift poorer kiwis. Student loan debt and the housing casino market mean young people have to work like dogs and still can’t get ahead. If they get a massive soul destroying mortgage they still in debt at age 70!
    This neoliberal F.I.R.E sector class uses its power to drain income from increasingly indebted and high-cost labor and industry. As per inflated by the economic rents extracted by this class under the system of financialized monopoly capitalism that now prevails throughout the West.
    We could house our homeless by issuing credit from our reserve bank to build them but we rather enrich moteliers to house these 4th class rejects. The attitude?
    We’ve screwed our own people and society to enrich a clique of rich wealth hoarders who won’t share and own the government!

  6. You forgot to mention the increased crime and unsafe streets. Flee before you get caught in the crossfire.

    • Well if you flee to Australia don’t assume that gangs shooting at each other doesn’t happen there. It’s not like the 501s here didn’t learn their trade somewhere

    • When I lived in Oz, I thought that every where I lived, Brisbane, Mackay, Townsville and Airlee Beach, to be more dangerous than anywhere I have lived in NZ.

      Acts of random and spontaneous violence were endemic, and often committed on unsuspecting passersby. Australian men treat women terribly, I know we have problems in this country, but jesus they are fucked over there.

      So if you are fleeing NZ because you don’t feel safe? Wait till you get there…

  7. Its definitely becoming a shithole, but the the questions remain:

    What kind of shithole?
    Who is responsible for making NZ a shithole??
    And which droogies are on the pay roll???

  8. Wow. Pretty grim: “The end of the world is nigh”.

    But yes to “Your student debt locks you out of home ownership and the broken housing market only benefits speculators while crushing first time home buyers.”

  9. I think get mandatory voting first then reverse back to just prior to roger douglas wriggling out of Labour.
    roger handed our paradise over to plutocrats and they’ve exploited our largesse and our trust to make themselves multi billionaires. It was at that point, that everything went udders up. Tits and all.
    Compulsory voting would work, I’m sure of it. I know that, that process would be very curative.
    But how to galvanise the AO/NZ voter into making voting mandatory?
    Hire an actor. That’s what you do. Pay them well. Get them to read a scrip that we could all be involved with writing. Just look at this blog? I mean, it’s awesome. No, seriously, it is.
    The Daily Blog. Love it, hate it or fear it, it’s where we can come and have our opinions heard, read or however way you’d like to put it. Where else can that be done? RNZ? TVNZ? The brain farting, shit spattering, commercial-media, brain-washing-the-rabble babble?
    Corporate Business interests own us currently. We’re owned. They own us. What’s more worrying is that those corporate interests are themselves owned by bigger corporate fleas off-shore.
    You guys should follow Russell Brand too. His opinions are bloody interesting and his team are very well researched. I can see The Daily Blog reaching out to Russell Brand. Russell Brand has 5.6 million subscribers. He has reach and influence.
    ” The definition of madness is to keep doing the same thing while expecting a different result. ” I should know.
    Our kids are leaving AO/NZ because, like us, they fail to act.

  10. From those I have seen over the years chasing greener pastures, they either wound up returning with little to show for it or living a life little different from here.

    It shouldn’t be news to anyone that we live in a globalised world, often lauded as some great achievement for some reason–great for the wealthy–as for the rest everywhere will be a slight variation of the same.

    Most who heed the call to leave for better opportunities will end up being disappointed.

    Another example of the disjointed narrative typical of “news” media nowadays. For two years, almost continuous stories of the plight of those citizens unable to return, now with boarders being relaxed, seemingly a clamour to leave.

  11. The Opportunity party’s idea of a universal basic income of 70k for everybody over 18 is making more and more sense to the masses. Then u don’t need about 10 govt departments. No Superannuation, No ACC, No work and income.etc…even the ACT party may grow to see the benefits of A UBI…and why would u go to Aus where they detest kiwis..when u could get a UBI.

  12. Agree with every point Bomber makes, except for the advice to flee, because, as so many others point out, there is no place to flee to. We’re altogether on a ship which, having sailed a pre-determined neo-liberal Capitalist course, hit an iceberg some years ago, and is now only kept afloat by stuffing steerage passengers, and steadily more from second class too, into the cracks. Until we storm first class and take their wads of money to caulk the cracks, we’re dead passengers waiting.

  13. Looking forward to your analysis of the new McDonald’s ad Bomber, about how McDonald’s has been there for kiwi families over the years. It really just tracks New Zealand’s obesity pandemic!!

  14. Jacinda, half in tears with emotion, tells all of America on Colbert Show that we got rid of guns. Huge applause from the audience.

  15. Here’s a novel idea!? How about some decent achievable policy(s0 to solve all of the Crisis?
    Poverty
    Housing
    Homelessness
    Health
    Terrorism-Crime
    Health
    Corruption/Bureaucrats
    Inflation
    Mission Creep in NZ’s war against Russia.

  16. I’m currently on holiday in the UK. I notice that a brand new brick and tile 4 bedroom house with all the modern gadgets and underfloor heating can be bought for less than half the price of my wooden shack in Auckland. This in a country with a population density over TEN TIMES higher than NZ!
    My mind boggles at the incompetence of successive governments in NZ that lead us to this point.

    • A
      What’s the size of UK govt and bureaucracy in relation to population? Is it ten times bigger than here? I bet not. So there is your first clue. In fact UK has about 550,000 and we have 430,000. It’s fucking ridiculous how big our bureaucracy is. We are all just working to pay for our massive public sector and all their perks…no longer to move the country forward. Can’t wait for Seymour to light the blowtorch.

  17. Professional and working people are fleeing because they see no hope in NZ – all the political parties no longer see Kiwis or expertise as the answer, but more consumption of neoliberalism with a side of Maori Nationalism.

    Those who are woke, crims and high needs stay in NZ because no other country, apart from NZ wants to have high needs overseas people partaking from their welfare system, so high needs Kiwis can’t get out.

    NZ policy says, we welcome foreign high needs and fringe groups who are ‘persecuted’, we will raise taxes, lower wages and make everyone else compete and pay while our government woke and hanger on’s cheer them on and virtue signal against their own identities – maybe part of the mental health problem?????.

    Race division is everywhere in NZ and now to virtue signal in the echo chamber of Russian/Chinese propaganda paid for by neoliberal billionaires mostly US based, the white woke in NZ complain about how to get rid of the other white people (for being white, even though they are white themselves, go figure) and blame them for every problem that we didn’t use to have in NZ before the woke/neoliberals pushed through their race based agenda.

    Can’t see much remedy to this problem because the left are just as fucked up as the right now.

    The unions gave up on the workers and now promote unemployment and migrant rights instead, as it’s an easier market with loads of money/members to be made.

    Seriously do the woke Pakeha (many woke commentators including on this site) really go home at night and say to their kids, it’s all your fault, delete yourself as some nice non white person should be living in this house/country instead of you – because of your colour you are to blame for the housing and health shortage we never used to have?

    Most people including Pakeha in NZ are multi ethnic but inspite of that, the woke who some of the biggest mouthpieces, are mostly pakeha or English who virtue signal and make a living off blaming their own ethnic groups for all of NZ woes. Maybe if they fucked off themselves we might have a fighting chance to go back to NZ’s formally egalitarian society.

    Instead the media woke messages seems to be for professional and working class Pakeha to fuck off to OZ and let NZ become a nation of liquor store, takeout and minimart owners. This seems to be NZ’s cultural revolution, small business is our new glorified peasants who have little education but high consumption and can compete against the other woke favourite group Maori and Pacific Islanders.

    Now we have an overload of minimarts and takeouts with the ram raids of Kiwi poverty showing the two idealised groups warring as well as the gang members warring.

    What an amazing society NZ has become with woke/neoliberal thinking and essential skill/scam immigration making the woke and neoliberals richer. Sarcasm.

    No wonder people are mentally ill trying to work it out and the youth are killing themselves. Every day there are messages about being the wrong colour, being the wrong race, being the wrong gender and that’s part of the individualism sweeping the country and making people here feel bad about themselves and blaming others – many of those who were born in NZ and lived here most of their lives being the biggest targets for the woke bullies.

  18. In Auckland the idea that there is a shorage of new builds is a myth, there is and has been plenty of new build housing being built, the problem is that it costs so much that NZ’s people who 60% seem to be on some sort of subsidy due to low wages, can’t afford the 3 bed, 2 baths, no gardens on offer for 1 million $$.

    Like Kiwibuild, the new builds have added more problems, with another neoliberal – woke-marketing joint venture, that failed to solve the housing crisis because you can’t solve poverty with trickle down and committees led by woke identity signalling and adding another 165,000 people into NZ residency, plus unlimited visas to come and think it will work.

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