I really think you just solved generations of inequality right there.
do you think it’s a good idea to pay beneficiaries just enough to keep them in poverty, but wave the carrot of a few more bucks if they have a kid but take the benefit away if you have a partner?
do you think it’s a good idea to then let beneficiaries rack up thousands and thousands of dollars of debt for not paying rent and then let them pay it back a dollar a week out of their benefit, this keeping them a prisoner to the benefit?
do you think it’s a good thing to be born in and grow up in a town with zero job opportunities therefore fast tracking yourself to the aforementioned?
do you think it’s a good thing to be born in a gang household and resign yourself to being the same sack of shit as the other gang members in the house poisoning their communities with drugs, beating their kids to death or raping and beating up the women ?
do you think it’s a good thing to be comfortable and feel safety and resignation in being a statistic of shitty health outcomes as spoken about today?
do you think it’s a good thing to resign yourself to
probably winding up in prison just because everyone else you’ve grown up with and stuck around is?
do you think it’s a good thing to have the weight of te pati maori the media telling you dirty david seymour wants you dead and is trying to take away all your rights, even though the prime minister has said IT WILL NOT PASS*
or do you think perhaps it’s a fucking god send to get the fuck out of here away from all of that and have a decent crack at living a good and full life?
you will ALWAYS be a product of your environment.
there’s a reason kiwis seem to thrive once they leave NZ.
*remains to be seen.
