Comments on: The Daily Blog Open Mic – 2nd April 2025 https://thedailyblog.co.nz/the-daily-blog-open-mic-2nd-april-2025/ Read the Other Side of the Story Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:23:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Greywarbler https://thedailyblog.co.nz/the-daily-blog-open-mic-2nd-april-2025/#comment-325121 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:23:12 +0000 https://thedailyblog.co.nz/?p=202316#comment-325121 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/556943/when-500-million-people-in-china-change-their-spending-habits-the-world-feels-it
…But “garbage time” is also making room for younger and middle-class Chinese to redefine success and contentment. With good jobs, luxury goods and home ownership now harder to attain, a generation is questioning what matters most in a changing socioeconomic landscape.
From Prada to ‘living light’
Only ten years ago, many in China’s middle classes were chasing big dreams: they bought homes and designer brands, and sent their children overseas for schooling.

“Getting rich is glorious,” former leader Deng Xiaoping once said.
Many Chinese fully embraced this idea. According to a 2021 study of millennial consumption habits, 7.6 million young Chinese spent an average of 71,000 yuan (NZ$18,100) on luxury goods in 2016, approximately 30 percent of the global luxury market…

I think we need to follow Chinese wisdom instead of searching for what is swept under the rugs and beds of USA soap box soothsayers.

]]> By: Greywarbler https://thedailyblog.co.nz/the-daily-blog-open-mic-2nd-april-2025/#comment-325120 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 07:57:27 +0000 https://thedailyblog.co.nz/?p=202316#comment-325120 This has been going on for over a decade. Presumably if the Maori hapu living in the area could have taken the matter to a joint iwi Maori committee which had the power to control such matters, it would have been slowed down then properly organised so there was a suitable site properly managed as there appears to be a need for one. At present they are put in a stream that is drawn from for drinking water!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/illegal-animal-dumping-in-far-north-raises-water-contamination-fears/VNF4I4XID5CY3JZG7EMBH422JY/
For the past 15 years, illegal dumping has taken place at as many as 12 sites in Ruapekapeka Rd near Towai.
Residents told Bay of Islands-Whangaroa Community Board member Roddy Hapati Pihema the issue was long-running and needed a solution…
“Some are still using the water, but it’s not advisable,” Pihema said.
He said the stream was the only source of water for many residents…

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