The Daily Blog Open Mic – 15th June 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird Bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
I have the feeling unproved, that Auckland University of T is compromised from the point of being a NZ centric citizen-assisting helpful institution. This is the latest info I’ve seen and is comparing us to 1970 figures which seem better than presently. So what are they advising us to do now? Is there any good industry or business left that neoliberalism hasn’t upended, cheapened and ‘deared’ at the same time? And who benefits from changes at a gross and net level?
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/14/nzs-economy-is-not-underperforming-by-accident/
For decades, reports from the Treasury, the Productivity Commission, the OECD and others have told a consistent story: our economy grows by adding more people and more hours, not by producing more value per hour worked. But the International Monetary Fund’s April report, released online this week, New Zealand’s Productivity Challenge, offers a sharper and more unsettling perspective. It suggests we are not just underperforming but actively backing the wrong kinds of firms.
The report’s overarching finding is familiar. New Zealand’s GDP per hour worked has steadily slipped behind that of comparable countries. Once on par with Scandinavian economies in the 1970s, we now produce around 40 percent less output per hour than Denmark, Finland, or Sweden. While those countries have lifted productivity through sustained investment in innovation-led sectors, New Zealand has relied more heavily on labour force expansion and inward migration.
Immigration is one of our thriving income streams, so what do they find wrong with that? Sociologists at Massey Uni think it is a good thing – without quibble I think.