If Shamubeel Eaqub, economist, could change one thing it would be, “We need to increase the amount of our welfare payments, and we need to make them less conditional”.
Do you agree? What is your vision for NZ, or what would you change if you could heading into a post Covid world?
If I could change one thing, it would be the largely-unspoken belief in "wealth creation". We do not create "wealth", we extract it from the biosphere using the energy available directly or indirectly from our local nuclear fusion reactor (the Sun). Wealth creation is a destructive cargo cult. There's nothing wrong with hard work and the entrepreneurial spirit, but when that morphs into selfishness, beneficiary bashing and tax avoidance it becomes divisive and destructive.