(07-05-2025, 03:09 PM)zqwerty Wrote: How NZ's bank rules make life for ex-prisoners even harder
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5601...ven-harder
Not altogether helpful, if they don't want people to re offend
(07-05-2025, 03:10 PM)heisenberg Wrote:(07-05-2025, 09:12 AM)king1 Wrote: you don't feel like we as a society should bare any responsibility for that?
Colonialism explains it in a crude way, but it was the actions of successive governments between then and now that has shaped society over the last couple of centuries... and we still seem to be perpetuating the same behaviours that caused this problem we have in the first place...
these people were waging war on each other long before europeans turned up and some of them still do
Really - "these people?"
Did you forget that our ancestors also waged war on each other?
https://medium.com/war-stories/the-inhum...74db96b010
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)