12-07-2023, 04:01 PM
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/13252307...-this-mess
"Some change was definitely needed back then. Forty years on, we must evaluate what worked and what didn’t.
The results are stark. We find ourselves overworked, unhappier, unhealthier, lonelier and more unequal and divided as a society.
Enough time has passed that we can now state that poverty, inequality and pollution aren’t bugs – they are in fact features of the system.
With our own election less than 100 days away, is anyone questioning this broken “business as usual” economy and proposing to install a new operating system?"
Time for change. Surely one of that lot can summon up the needed courage.
"Some change was definitely needed back then. Forty years on, we must evaluate what worked and what didn’t.
The results are stark. We find ourselves overworked, unhappier, unhealthier, lonelier and more unequal and divided as a society.
Enough time has passed that we can now state that poverty, inequality and pollution aren’t bugs – they are in fact features of the system.
With our own election less than 100 days away, is anyone questioning this broken “business as usual” economy and proposing to install a new operating system?"
Time for change. Surely one of that lot can summon up the needed courage.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)