The Daily Blog Open Mic – 7th June 2023
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Who owns me now? My communications device is changing hands again.
Apparently but I am confused.
Was Gummint, then Telecom, then Telstra, Vodafone, then briefly One NZ, now Infratil. I think I’ve got it right. Pass the parcel but every stop unwraps a layer and loses respect from the customer. And this is said to be what brought about the push to privatisation – because some wealthy businessmen had to wait 3 months to get a new connection at a time of great change in communications. We weren’t keeping up with fast-moving world business. It sure is fast and slick. Some of us are still running behind the bus.
Link https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/491474/infratil-to-take-full-ownership-of-one-nz-in-1-point-8b-deal
As government is less interested in helping the people it is supposed to serve and looks to tech and machinery to do its work which is now replaced by planning urban spaces, designing cycleways for fast moving between gig jobs etc. there may be a need for citizens to team up and provide services for each other. Catching rats with their keen dogs for instance.
https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-rats-scrat-urban-ratters-dogs-raven/42807764
Am U on the job or not? I think yes.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018893433/massey-university-staff-told-to-clear-buildings-rat-traps
Axe that red tape by introducing a fiddly diddly little bureaucrat that gets in the way of getting anything done. Sounds unlike Axe or is it the real deal of what to expect from Seymour et al as we get the light-footed dancers prancing round on our political stage and sticking their high heels into our legislation. Do what we say or we’ll punch your lights out@!
Gordon Campbell has been thinking about it on Scoop.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2306/S00007/on-red-tape-and-nicky-hagers-regal-reward.htm