The world economy is showing to be more fragile than once was thought and solutions will have to be found that go some way to mitigating the likely outcomes.
I haven't any better ideas than anybody else but at least here I have an opportunity to say something about it - and some, I have already said.
Every economist will have an opinion as to why we are at where we are at but I have a bob's worth to add.
We hear about this thing 'productivity' and how workers will have to up their productivity to be competitive. Well that may be so but the very highest paid on this earth produce nothing - or nothing tangible.
I'm talking about theentertainment industry (mainly). I include the lot - movie and tv stars, sports stars, music stars. These people do entertain and that has a value but much of their wreath comes from sponsorship - by wearing a label for whatever. And the product they wear is made cheaply in some third world country and sold at huge profits throughout the world. To me this is not real economy.
Unfortunately too many of these stars are big on ego and image and weak in the cranium department yet the impressionable [in hordes] try to emulate them. Generalizing is a bad thing and there are exceptions but a good example are the socialites that strut like looney chickens with miniature puppies in their handbags and wear high heels to PD!
The overprices people in CEO position is also a mystery to me - that Telecom guy on 7m? Tut. So who cares if we can't buy the best in the world? this could develop into a rant.
The world is a big place and the trend is for a global economy end I know economics overlaps diplomacy, but I question if we really need to involve NZ heavily into the global economy.
At the local Shell service station I bought two pies for lunch - well that's not healthy I know, but it was early and there were no sandwiches. Anyway these pies were made in Australia. I have nothing against that country but why was there a need to put these pies in a container and ship them here when we have an industry that makes the best pies in the world? Pies!
Why is all our nation's packaging made of plastic when paper could utilize our long suffering forest industry - even those wildling pines? Natural vs Synthetic and renewable resource vs nonrenewable. Is that too simplistic?
There are rules here in good old NZ for almost everything, but how come you can buy a cardboard box with a few packets inside of four cracker biscuits and a piece of cheese sealed into plastic and foil. The packaging is worth more than the product. You cart the box home then you have to pay to dispose of the packaging - makes no sense to me.
I haven't any better ideas than anybody else but at least here I have an opportunity to say something about it - and some, I have already said.
Every economist will have an opinion as to why we are at where we are at but I have a bob's worth to add.
We hear about this thing 'productivity' and how workers will have to up their productivity to be competitive. Well that may be so but the very highest paid on this earth produce nothing - or nothing tangible.
I'm talking about the
Unfortunately too many of these stars are big on ego and image and weak in the cranium department yet the impressionable [in hordes] try to emulate them. Generalizing is a bad thing and there are exceptions but a good example are the socialites that strut like looney chickens with miniature puppies in their handbags and wear high heels to PD!
The overprices people in CEO position is also a mystery to me - that Telecom guy on 7m? Tut. So who cares if we can't buy the best in the world? this could develop into a rant.
The world is a big place and the trend is for a global economy end I know economics overlaps diplomacy, but I question if we really need to involve NZ heavily into the global economy.
At the local Shell service station I bought two pies for lunch - well that's not healthy I know, but it was early and there were no sandwiches. Anyway these pies were made in Australia. I have nothing against that country but why was there a need to put these pies in a container and ship them here when we have an industry that makes the best pies in the world? Pies!
Why is all our nation's packaging made of plastic when paper could utilize our long suffering forest industry - even those wildling pines? Natural vs Synthetic and renewable resource vs nonrenewable. Is that too simplistic?
There are rules here in good old NZ for almost everything, but how come you can buy a cardboard box with a few packets inside of four cracker biscuits and a piece of cheese sealed into plastic and foil. The packaging is worth more than the product. You cart the box home then you have to pay to dispose of the packaging - makes no sense to me.
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