In NZ we have the Public Service vs the Private Sector to generate the friction of competition.
That is a corrupted friction.
NZ is 3 huge sparsely populated Islands.
We simply don’t have the population density for free market dynamics to generate the competitive advantages that they can provide, NZ has ALWAYS required the State to step in as the foundation stone.
National and ACT want to kick that foundation stone out from under us and pretend that’s not economic vandalism.
I want to see that competitive friction to be generated by Public Service vs Te ao Māori Service!
That would be True Treaty Capitalism.
Real Aotearoa solutions.
Daniel McLauchlan is one of the greatest political columnists in New Zealand and his criticism of the Wellington Professional Managerial Class raises important questions on how the State should regulate itself during Late Stage Capitalism that the Political Left need to look at…
The dogmatic political left invests its faith in the bureaucratic state; the dogmatic right trusts oligopolistic free markets – leaving New Zealand with crumbling infrastructure and corruption
…the Political Left have allowed the self-interested Public Service and the Professional Managerial Class to push self interested virtue signals rather than structural change and increased capacity of the State!
David Seymour says the Public Service is Left wing, bullshit!
If only this was true!
The Wellington Bureaucracy isn’t left wing! It’s a self interested Professional Managerial Class who use identity politics to mask their neoliberal hands-off-do-nothing-but-build-glass-palaces fiefdoms.
Oh they do the reo, and expose their pronouns and militantly ride bikes, they are effortless in their use of inclusion as a means to dominate and control the narrative, but they are a middle class clique, not left wing egalitarianism.
The Wellington Bureaucracy is a culture war of woke middle class Identity Politics aspirations backed with State funding, they may aesthetically be Left but they sure as fuck aren’t economically Left.
To brand the Public Service as ‘Left’ misdiagnoses the disease, symptom and patient!
The real power struggle in NZ isn’t Left vs Right, it’s between the Professional Managerial Class Corporate Consultants who influence policy to maintain their dominance and profit margins vs the self serving Public Service wanting to spend taxpayer money on their latest glass palace.
The Politicians are merely a masquerade of democracy to ensure participation that generates legitimacy, but the real power is between the Corporate Consultants who influence all policy to keep NZ deregulated and the self serving Public Service who are in it for their own fiefdoms.
Daniel talks about the lack of actual competition to the self-serving Public Service and to that effect Māori Social Service Providers could easily become the competition the self serving Public Service needs while building State capacity with a Ministry of Green Works.
Public Service vs Te ao Māori Service NOT Public Service vs Private Sector
The lack of results from a self serving Public Service riddled with Corporate Consultants could finally be challenged by Māori Social Service Providers that treat everyone who comes, but in a Māori cultural setting.
That development can drive the self serving Public Service to be far more responsive and force actual results out of them.
It’s allowing regulated capitalism to inject the dynamic of competition while building State capacity.
Imagine a scenario where Iwi joined forces with the State to create a 3rd Supermarket Operator with a focus on lower costs to customers, better work conditions for workers and better prices for suppliers.
Or expanding existing community health groups that are open to the entire community but run within Kaupapa Māori.
Same with Māori schools.
You can generate the competitive friction Capitalism requires while building up the State, not denigrating it.
That would be a true hybrid system using the Treaty as the template for sovereignty and , using Iwi wealth to encode into our most important social infrastructures.
There is a vast field of new horizons opening that demand attention.
Structural deficits in the hegemony are becoming impossible to ignore economically and climate change adaptation is the only game in town infrastructure and community resilience wise.
Working with each other, Māori and Pakeha, Pacifica, Migrant is what will make NZ stronger.
Not weaker.
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