we're framing this moment the wrong way as a blunt job cuts exercise, rather than a once in a generation chance to improve citizen services, grow new export businesses out of public sector expertise, and build a proper New Zealand digital service to set standards and avoid another decade of technical debt.
On this 250th birthday of the United States, the bill that would allow Mother Randall to be compensated is languishing in some congressional committee somewhere. Bills for black reparations for slavery have sat collecting dust for decades, but people convicted for their roles in January 6 came way closer to official government sanctioned redress than anybody in those groups. So, who counts as having been harmed by the state?
most of the ones I talked to you say tax us more because we need more capital to run our businesses, and it's been a stranglehold on that because of our obsession with property.
With the US more than 50 years behind China in critical mineral supply and grid infrastructure built on systems designed a century ago, they examine where the real bottlenecks are and how to move faster.
While countries like Australia, Singapore, the UK and the US have long term coordinated manufacturing and industry four point zero strategies, New Zealand has shelved its industry transformation plans and still doesn't have a clear view of what kind of manufacturing base it wants in.
Without a coherent industrial strategy covering energy, skills, investment, and R and D, we're effectively putting headwinds in front of our most productive exporters rather than giving them a competitive advantage.
Singapore enacted policies to clean up their waterways, and they were really, really successful. So all of a sudden, instead of having waterways that were filled with filth, we had waterways that were filled with fish. And from the otters' points of view, they were feeding troughs.
When infrastructure doesn't work for people, it hurts the family. It hurts her home budget money out of her rent or child care. And so for me, it was that that moment where it really crystallized when the fundamentals aren't working. People on the margins pay the dearest price for it.
The speed of which AI is changing we're not adapting our society fast enough... the biggest issue confronting our country today and other countries is the speed of which this change is occurring is society moderating that fast enough?
