u/No_Entrepreneur_580

Last night I made a post asking if people actually cared about inequality, quality of life, and the rising cost of living in New Zealand. Turns out a lot of people do, and many are worried about where this country is heading.

This isn’t just about “taxing the rich.” It’s about having systems in place so people and organisations can’t exploit others while ordinary people struggle more every year.

For starters, there should be 100% transparency around all publicly funded money. If taxpayers are funding something, they should know exactly where the money is going..We also need to go back to separating public and private interests properly. No one should be making millions off essential assets and services people rely on to survive — power, electricity, food, and housing should be treated as necessities first, not endless profit machines.

We need a proper vision and hope for the future again. We need to come together and remember that ordinary people are the majority, not the very small number of people making this country far worse than it could be.

I know this is a divisive topic, but can someone explain why more people aren’t talking about the growing wealth gap in this country?

I was reading an article about wealthy Australians moving here because New Zealand is becoming a bit of a tax haven for them. It just made me wonder — are people oblivious to what’s happening, do they not care, or have they simply given up trying to think about it?

This isn’t me trying to be some stereotypical “lefty” either. What people don’t realise is that if the gap keeps growing at this rate, eventually even the middle class will get crushed. History shows that when too much wealth and power ends up concentrated in a very small group of people, the rest of society starts falling apart.

Healthcare gets worse, housing becomes unaffordable, poverty rises, younger generations lose hope, and ordinary people end up competing harder and harder just to survive.

I honestly think this is the elephant in the room in New Zealand politics. Governments keep talking about growth, but growth for who? Because for a lot of average Kiwis it feels like life is getting harder despite working just as hard, if not harder, than previous generations.

I’m not saying there needs to be some literal revolution, but I do think New Zealanders have become too passive about where the country is heading. At some point we need serious conversations about housing, tax, wages, infrastructure, healthcare, and long-term planning instead of constantly kicking problems down the road.

Otherwise NZ risks becoming a country where only the wealthy truly thrive while everyone else slowly falls behind.

I sometimes wonder how a lot of our urban planning was signed off in this city. Today I was getting off at Lincoln Road in Henderson. The bridge has been recently redone, and at two intersections, cars were cutting one another off, blocking each other, and I saw a couple of near misses. What I want to know is: was any modelling actually done when building this infrastructure upgrade? Because whoever designed it really fucked up lol.

Also, with Westgate — are they going to build that bridge at Northside Road behind Costco, or are they just going to leave it and let it take an hour to get from Westgate to Massey during busy periods? I don’t know about you, but with the new Kmart going in, this is only going to get worse.

I say get rid of the idiots who are in charge of designing this stuff at the moment. Bring in people who can actually design better infrastructure and urban planning