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Seeing Brooke Van Velden’s comments about why it was so imperitive to extend 90 day trials to larger companies before Christmas, I can’t help wondering if anyone knows if a specific industry lobbied for it. There are other faster, easier, more operationally constructive, less risky and completely legitimate ways to manage staff in large companies that I wonder who it is that gains anything. Are the government trying to eliminate the Temping and contracted workforce administrations so that selected employers can directly instill fear of poverty onto any group without paying the pesky fees? Is that what she means by “chance of success through attitude”? How do you sell poverty to the impoverished, and more sexy than that, how do you manage the attitudes of a fragmented workforce who are eternally in survival mode, and what place would they ever have within a stable and functional larger company? How do you reconcile the wasted/undeveloped skills resource? How is it that ACT think a successsful/large company thinks, “Hey this is great, I never even thought of just churning endlessly through people before…”.
Meanwhile, yet another barely employed Labour MP clutches their Tommee Tippee coffee cup and mutters something about how there has never been such a serious skills shortage.
ACT’s version of (modern American) Libertarianism is so stripped down it’s closer to medieval feudalism. It’s the freedom not to be free, but to freely die, minus any of the good stuff, like being against war, and recognising civil rights and freedom of thought. Here, there is only one thought allowed for your “attitude of success” – serve thy master. Had to laugh at Damien Grant’s invitation to James Shaw to see the light and join the Dark Side. Conditions for entry: wear a suit, be older than the millennial extremists that hate you. Ideal Utopian vision: UAE.
Feudalism, what’s it good for ?? Do we know? Was there one liege lord who you served and who employed/rewarded you? Looking it up,the meaning is confused – there was Roman, European, Japanese and Chinese feudalism…
This para is informative about this complex subject:
One theory about the origin of fehu was proposed by Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern in 1870,[21][22] being supported by, amongst others, William Stubbs[23][24] and Marc Bloch.[23][25][26] Kern derived the word from a putative Frankish term *fehu-ôd, in which *fehu means “cattle” and -ôd means “goods”, implying “a movable object of value”.[25][26]
Bloch explains that by the beginning of the 10th century it was common to value land in monetary terms but to pay for it with objects of equivalent value, such as arms, clothing, horses or food. This was known as feos, a term that took on the general meaning of paying for something in lieu of money. This meaning was then applied to land itself, in which land was used to pay for fealty, such as to a vassal. Thus the old word feos meaning movable property would have changed to feus, meaning the exact opposite: landed property
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples_of_feudalism
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/504511/cyclone-gabrielle-auckland-anniversary-floods-insurance-bill-at-2-point-7-billion-so-far
We can’t afford this country, it’s leaking too. Keep bailing while we find a good patch for the holes, the wounds to our body politic from the shitty financial and politcal system that we have allowed in to undermine those that sort of worked to abandon them in favour of imported rubbish of every type which is smothering us.