“Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies”.
NZ Post use Fleetwood Mac’s anthem as a gentle cheeky Christmas TV advert all about telling little white lies to make Christmas a secret.
More on that in a second.
Bernard Hickey reflecting this week on how the mass immigration policies our free market capitalism has locked us into an infrastructure doom loop…
A record-high net 44,730 New Zealand citizens left the country permanently in the year to the end of September, Stats NZ reports. They were more than replaced by an also-record-high net 163,570 non-citizens arriving permamently, but mostly on temporary work visas.
Our ‘Churn and Burn’ economy of a housing market-with-bits-tacked-on that is fueled by record-high migration, low investment and rising residential land prices is churning and burning faster than ever. The escape valve of young New Zealanders with skills and connections jumping on a plane to Australia is working better than ever, but it’s creating new negative feedback loops of more staffing stress in health, education, construction and transport. These in turn squeeze the economy’s ability to raise productivity and real wages and increase desperation for yet more temporary migration, let alone address the core of the problem: insufficient and brutally expensive housing for renters and buyers.
The ultimate exit valve in this pressure cooker is the poorest renters under the most stress falling into homelessness and food poverty. Our nation’s ‘Churn and Burn’ dashboard is now full of blinking red lights, including:
- record-high outward migration of our best-trained young people to Australia and elsewhere at a rate of 200 a day;
- record-high inward migration of 585 mostly young workers on temporary visas who live under a cloud of uncertainty and in constant fear of exploitation and deportation without equal or free access to our welfare or health systems;
- Auckland house prices bouncing strongly again at double-digit annualised growth rates, given its population is growing at a rate three times faster than new homes consented, some of which just replace existing homes, rather than adding to the total stock;
- use of food banks having risen 165% to 480,000 per month since early 2020, the NZ Food Network found in a survey this year as the most stressed renters in the world can’t afford food; and,
- the number of households formally registered as homeless rising 9% to 25,284 in the nine months to the end of September, including almost 500 who said they were living in their cars, five times higher than five years ago.
…our nation is built upon exploiting a low wage economy.
NZ’s free market capitalism sees labour as a trans national cost and brings in cheaper workers from overseas and exploits them as ‘contractors’.
Bringing in exploitable workers, providing them with no security and then allowing them to vote seems like a really stupid idea.
We see this flawed immigration policy undermining our infrastructure and exploding on our streets.
One of the issues rarely highlighted in ram raids is that you have angry damaged Māori/Pacifica youth attacking exploited migrant workers while European New Zealander’s grasp their pearls and scream for paramilitary policing.
Let’s get back to that NZ Post TV advert.
Because the middle class woke have stolen all the political oxygen for their virtue signals, their woke dogma is the prevailing lens from the Left and the problem with making identity the only lens you see the world through, you become the problem not the solution.
Why are all the couriers in those NZ Post adverts Indian?
You can’t ask that question because intersectionist wokeness demands identity above all else and asking “Why are all the couriers in those NZ Post adverts Indian”, will get you cancelled for thought crimes.
The reason of course as to why so many couriers are Indian is because they are the ones most exploitable by NZ free market capitalism.
This isn’t a race issue, it’s a class issue!
These Indian workers have been lured to NZ to be exploited by ruthless contracts which exploit them for our low wage economy.
This entire business model of importing desperate workers and exploiting them as contractors is about to erupt next year in Court as domestic couriers being abused fight NZ Post’s new plan to slash them all from rural delivery services to gain more overseas workers!
The way we can end exploitation of migrant workers is by making every international worker a compulsory member of a Union so that they can be collectivised and their conditions strengthened but the whole low wage economy is reliant on that exploitation so of course the solution of universal union membership will be ignored.
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“NZ’s free market capitalism” is the western world’s free market capitalism, at the very least. As such, mass immigration is a common issue all throughout the western world. Why, why do our pollies adopt these common goals when a good deal of us – everywhere – finds them troublesome.
Who is really pulling their strings…we don’t need an answer – we just need to put a stop to it by pressuring our politicians to act for us for a change. Sooner, rather than later, we will wake up.
“The reason of course as to why so many couriers are Indian is because they are the ones most exploitable by NZ free market capitalism.
This isn’t a race issue, it’s a class issue!”
Indeed!
And after their families have sacrificed savings, mortgaged land, begged, borrowed and stolen in order to get their kids what they’ve been told is a ‘good education’ at some shitty PTE.
What amuses me most, is that we then go begging for a “free” trade agreement. I’d have thought by now all those policy boffins at MFAT, MBIE and elsewhere would have realised Indians (in India) really don’t like seeing their fellow countrymen and women treated like shit – even though some of them in NZ are prepared to pull up the ladder Paula Bennett style.
And not just NZ Post, ANZ Bank, UBER and elsewhere in the gig economy.
It’s taken a bloody long time of MBIE/The Labour Expectorant to start taking exploitation seriously, and even as they do, they’ve been in large part responsible through idiotic, facile policy advice to Munsters (often based on copying it from elsewhere in the Empire).
“so of course the solution of universal union membership will be ignored”
Really? I reckon the solution is to agree that a population of 5 million is the max the environment can afford when primary production and tourism are almost the only source of overseas income.
Then without the immigration companies would have to invest to increase profit through productivity, salaries will rise and the young will stay.
Unions reps could stand at the airport and sign up arriving workers but they don’t. And if they did it would be in their interest for more immigration.
The immigration issue is only one facet of the complete abandonment of responsibilities that characterizes our political classes.
We’re not training our people anymore.
We’re not building enough.
We’re not taxing enough to maintain core services like health.
And our delinquent political classes dare to show their shameless faces in public.
Tiger food the lot of them.
The root cause is always the same….as simple as Maslows law…food and shelter.
When people can have a secure place to live ,and enough food to eat,everyones…better off.
I’ve read that a good many consider immigration in parts of Europe a “failed experiment” but I haven’t been there to see it with my own eyes or talked in depth to those with a view. Mind I get the feeling immigration in Europe consists mostly of refugees fleeing trouble and seeking a new start. Angela Merkel was strongly criticized for opening Germany up to Syrian refugees some 5 years back – setting an unwanted precedent – but from recent accounts the Syrians have integrated well. Germany may not be the best case study. After all it is the powerhouse of the EU economy and can easily absorb migrants.
NZ is a different kettle of fish. Yes we do resettle a few refugees, but only those UN approved (other than a relatively few asylum seekers). Ours is an economic model. Labour or National it makes little difference to the settings. Treasury sets these with an eye to growing the population for future tax intake and the funding of NZ Super. Yes, on the face of it its all about meeting current labour needs, some semiskilled or unskilled, much legitimate but some rather dodgy, but 20 years hence the kids of many of these new immigrants will be the new professionals. Especially those that have educated parents. Evidence from Aussie suggests the kids of migrants (and refugees) who do best are those with educated parents. Its already happening. The kids of those immigrating in the late 90s and early 2000’s – before the explosion’s in work / work to resident visas – have largely done pretty well from where I’m sitting.
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