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The good life

By / 23 November 2009

So apparently the thing holding NZ back is our number 8 fencing wire attitude, and a terrible tendency to settle for the good life. Apparently a number of slackers out there are happy with a lifestyle of bach, boat, and BMW and don’t continue to reach their full potential. Our economic growth is suffering. The article in the Dom Post was also discussed on national radio

Bach, boat and BMW? Can anyone say out of touch?

Moreover, I would need some evidence that faster economic growth would result in a more equitable society rather than making the rich richer and poor more marginalised before I accept it as a Holy Grail.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment. The articles I heard and read today seemed to accept economic growth as a good in and of itself without talking about anything mediating it, or even talking about the goal of growth and whether that goal could be achieved another way.

I found the tone of these articles totally bizzar. There is so little talk of ‘enough’ or being ‘content’ nowadays. Surely the last thing we need is an attacks on some residual of ‘enough’ in the kiwi mentality and branding that as the thing holding us back.

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