Each year, the New Zealand Herald’s “Mood of the Boardroom” survey offers a meticulously curated glimpse into the political psyche of the nation’s corporate elite.
A capitalist event sponsored by capitalists and run by capitalists for capitalists. The puppets, aka the government, are there to receive their instructions. Can someone please tell me how this government isn’t completely corrupted and captured, because it looks like the snow job of the century to me. What a joke. Maybe try divining the mood of the proletariat to see where they rank Luxon and his ‘A’ team. Give me strength. God save New Zealand.
I guess we have to accept that these CEO's and lobbyists don't have kids at school, or family members needing health support, no elderly parents struggling for support, don't need roads to drive on, never struggling to feed their families, with housing which demonstrates that they are "set up". All the irrelevant issues standing in the way of their tax reductions. Well done Bryce you have lifted the veil off an ugly face of self-interested capitalism. Most small businesses are more closely linked to their communities' needs and expectations and are happy to play their part locally. It seems to me that this report reflects the desire of these people for us to emulate the ugliness of MAGA. It is surprising that they didn't all wear a cap announcing this desire.
A further thought it would be an excellent challenge to identify the salaries of the CEOs of the companies in this report. This would identify just how far these people are from the average wage earner, teacher, nurse or community worker.
We should not underestimate the more subtle impact on the massive shift of international accounting firms into advising government, and overseeing their prime information sources, while also being key partners to major business.
They have the same unfettered mixed incentives as corporate lobbyists.
When they get it really wrong, as did PWC in Australia over its work with the Australian Tax authorities, it exposes the potential of organizations with mixed incentives to act in a manner which we would regard as unethical of any public servant.
It’s the “ top table’s” reductive analysis and selective woe that gives them away. Where is the ‘heart of the nation’ or the self serving smashing of so many pay equity claims in one stroke of the pen in their litany of Money Love. “The price of everything and value of nothing” is an oldie but a goody.
And yet I still needed Bryce’s explanation and shakedown of these shysters to reveal the extent of their sense of entitlement and power to dictate terms. Ngā mihi. Write on!
A capitalist event sponsored by capitalists and run by capitalists for capitalists. The puppets, aka the government, are there to receive their instructions. Can someone please tell me how this government isn’t completely corrupted and captured, because it looks like the snow job of the century to me. What a joke. Maybe try divining the mood of the proletariat to see where they rank Luxon and his ‘A’ team. Give me strength. God save New Zealand.
Great analysis. So true.
I guess we have to accept that these CEO's and lobbyists don't have kids at school, or family members needing health support, no elderly parents struggling for support, don't need roads to drive on, never struggling to feed their families, with housing which demonstrates that they are "set up". All the irrelevant issues standing in the way of their tax reductions. Well done Bryce you have lifted the veil off an ugly face of self-interested capitalism. Most small businesses are more closely linked to their communities' needs and expectations and are happy to play their part locally. It seems to me that this report reflects the desire of these people for us to emulate the ugliness of MAGA. It is surprising that they didn't all wear a cap announcing this desire.
A further thought it would be an excellent challenge to identify the salaries of the CEOs of the companies in this report. This would identify just how far these people are from the average wage earner, teacher, nurse or community worker.
Well said Bryce.
A con job
We should not underestimate the more subtle impact on the massive shift of international accounting firms into advising government, and overseeing their prime information sources, while also being key partners to major business.
They have the same unfettered mixed incentives as corporate lobbyists.
When they get it really wrong, as did PWC in Australia over its work with the Australian Tax authorities, it exposes the potential of organizations with mixed incentives to act in a manner which we would regard as unethical of any public servant.
It’s the “ top table’s” reductive analysis and selective woe that gives them away. Where is the ‘heart of the nation’ or the self serving smashing of so many pay equity claims in one stroke of the pen in their litany of Money Love. “The price of everything and value of nothing” is an oldie but a goody.
And yet I still needed Bryce’s explanation and shakedown of these shysters to reveal the extent of their sense of entitlement and power to dictate terms. Ngā mihi. Write on!
Another excellent article Bryce. How about putting your hands up to stand for Parliament?