@NZMAGAMike I think these reasonable arguments to be made that especially public sector employees should never be paid more The median national wage.
If they want to pay rise, they have to improve the country's economy.
@NZMAGAMike And it's even more disgusting than the 3% because you will find that most of that text is actually coming from small and medium-sized businesses and large businesses are paying 0 or 1%.
Corporate monopolies are not the same thing as productive businesses.
@NZMAGAMike Which works out at about 3% of total revenue.
Don't worry, these businesses count on you not being amazing with numbers and being confused by statistical analysis.
@NZMAGAMike Negative gearing is the biggest theft in human history.
I can sell my honey to myself offshore at a loss.
It's actually relatively easy to get your corporate tax right down to below 10%
@NZMAGAMike Hi-Tax rate? You must be delusional.
Workers get hammered
Small businesses get hammered
Large corporations like X, Google and Facebook skate without paying almost anything.
Air New Zealand has probably taken more subsidies than I've ever paid in tax.
@RevisionistNow@NZMAGAMike@grok depends on location. I'm in Dunedin.
Our sun is not amazing but we do get a lot of wind.
And the price of solar has come down a lot in the last few years. But wind is still a really cost effective and easy to home build electrical generation.
@RevisionistNow@NZMAGAMike@grok Covid had nothing to do with the left or right. That was just our oligarchs consolidating more power.
Not much different to the war on "terror".
@RevisionistNow@NZMAGAMike@grok The truck that drove the solar panel to your house might have hit a bird along the way.
It's so important to be aware of collateral damage but it's also important not to overreact to it.
@RevisionistNow@NZMAGAMike@grok What a hilariously tunnel visioned thing to say.
Yes yes the right are smart and reasonable and a left are just unreasonable Dummies π«ͺπ€‘
@NZMAGAMike@grok@RevisionistNow Yep Eco terror on the right isn't anti-human. It's generally anti-technology so think religious groups attacking data centers.