Politics 🗳️ NZ Politics

[wizard of Tauranga]

Many businesses don’t survive without employees

Are you self employed? If not, why not?

 

[Worried2Death]

Employees don’t create wealth, businesses do.

Capital creates wealth usually, whether owned or borrowed

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Capital creates wealth usually, whether owned or borrowed

And where is capital invested (don’t say housing)?

 

[Worried2Death]

Are you self employed? If not, why not?

What if he's a surgeon or nurse employed in a public hospital, why would he be self-employed

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

What if he's a surgeon or nurse employed in a public hospital, why would he be self-employed

He’s not

He’s a tradie will low barriers to entry!

 

[Worried2Death]

And where is capital invested (don’t say housing)?

Invested in endeavors that accrue more capital?

 

[marv.]

Israel Adesanya is the biggest housing developer in the country at present. Or was recently anyway?

really??? doesn’t surprise i guess, as far as income goes, it even makes sense if that’s the avenue.
i only know about the others because i have a property manager in common who really isn’t supposed to say these things but then when that renters group put that “attack your greedy landlord, here’s everything they own” website online it was all available to see.

 

[Noitall]

Businesses create wealth and employ employees to do that work.

Yes, employees HELP create the wealth.

Many if not a majority of businesses don’t make anything without employees. That’s why so many do all that they can to hold onto the good ones

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

really??? doesn’t surprise i guess, as far as income goes, it even makes sense if that’s the avenue.
i only know about the others because i have a property manager in common who really isn’t supposed to say these things but then when that renters group put that “attack your greedy landlord, here’s everything they own” website online it was all available to see.

Sport stars… Not smart enough to hide it through trusts aye…

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Many if not a majority of businesses don’t make anything without employees. That’s why so many do all that they can to hold onto the good ones

Anyway, you make 1 widget and work harder/ smarter and makes 2 widgets your wealth has doubled without the beneficiary next door losing.

In fact with the extra tax take, the beneficiary ends up winning as well.

 

[marv.]

Sport stars… Not smart enough to hide it through trusts aye…

hahahah. well.
i think you’ll find the names harder to find now.

 

[Noitall]

Are you self employed? If not, why not?

Yes I’m self employed. I’d rather source my own work than give an employer half my wage like I used to

 

[marv.]

hahahah. well.
i think you’ll find the names harder to find now.

you can however still search property addresses, and up come all the names of directors of companies.
assets aren’t too hard to find from there.

 

[Worried2Death]

Anyway, you makes 1 widget and works harder/ smarter and makes 2 widgets your wealth has doubled without the beneficiary next door losing.

In fact with the extra tax take, the beneficiary ends up winning as well.

Easier said than done when you're competing against huge economies like PRC making 1000 widgets with near slave-labour rates flooding the markets with widgets

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Easier said than done when you're competing against huge economies making 1000 widgets with near slave labour rates flooding the markets with widgets

If we’re going into a full blown economics thread, each country needs to focus on its natural advantages.

Our widget is a cow and we buy another one and double our milk production.

 

[Worried2Death]

If we’re going into a full blown economics thread, each country needs to focus on its natural advantages.

Our widget is a cow that we buy another one and double our milk production.

But we sold the cows to China so they can breed them and make their own milk powder. What now?

 

[Noitall]

really??? doesn’t surprise i guess, as far as income goes, it even makes sense if that’s the avenue.
i only know about the others because i have a property manager in common who really isn’t supposed to say these things but then when that renters group put that “attack your greedy landlord, here’s everything they own” website online it was all available to see.

Sports stars invest very wisely. Richie McCaw and Dan Carter invested in retirement villages

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

But we sold the cows to China so they can breed them and make their own milk powder. What now?

Be like Australia and open a mine and sell raw materials to China. So they can buy our premium grass fed milk.

 

[Worried2Death]

Be like Australia and open a mine and sell raw materials to China.

Do we actually have their mineral wealth? We have coal, what else?

 

[miket12]

Or the govt just provides grants like for the insulation. A grant is essentially taking your own tax and giving it back to you in a roundabout way.

But I question if there is the will to have mass household solar systems? The generators don’t even pay market rates for regeneration back fed into the system which could also help.

From a govt perspective (also owning 51% of the major generators), wouldn’t large scale mass production of power generation for everyone be superior and cheaper (per unit) than small scale individual solar.

Some quick maths.... 60,000 rental properties at a grant or tax rebate set at a maximum of $8,000 per dwelling is $480 million.

By comparison, the Harapaki Wind Farm, in Hawkes Bay, cost $445M to build and can provide enough power (wind dependent) for 70,000 houses.

Geothermal generation is cheapest in terms of the capital cost per household fed power with the Te Mihi Power Station in the Wairakei Geothermal field costing $623M to build in 2014 but it serves around 160,000 homes so the cost per house was just under $4,000 per house.

The Onslow Scheme for providing additional generation capacity was estimated to cost $15.7B when it was scrapped. Given there's just over 2 million households in NZ, that's a cost of $8,000 per household for what would have essentially been a large back up generator.

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