Posts by BenWilson
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BTW, Russell, Preview button seems to have become the Post button. If you're reading this, I pressed preview.
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Too right on the weather. The choon that sprang to my mind as the sun came out, an oldie but a goodie:
"One of these days, you're gonna rise up singing
Spread your wings, and take to the sky"- Summertime, various artists, Ella Fitzgerald being my favourite.
And I also took to 2 wheels and just went a-rambling. It feels like a great weight has been lifted, to be honest.
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I felt uneasy about Alec's comment, but mainly because it contained a sizable grain of truth as far as I'm concerned. The only union I've ever been in was when I worked at McDonald's as a teenager, and a fat lot of good that did me. I find the idea quite difficult to accept at an emotional level because I've always, always wanted to strike my own bargains. Collective bargaining really doesn't appeal to me personally.
This leads to an inflated sense of how easy and natural bargaining for oneself is. I tend to forget that a heck of a lot of people working even on something that seems as glamorous (to me) as The Hobbit are coming from easily exploitable positions of weakness.
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Ross, surely he could sue whatever company he was employed by, though.
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The most obvious way I can see to definitely get fresh fruit and veg eaten more is to issue vouchers for them. But when you put it like that, as food stamps, suddenly it doesn't sound like such a good thing. It is, however, the effect this proposed exemption is dreaming of.
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I submit that the odds are considerably better than those for winning Lotto.
Furthermore, in a free society, people are allowed to buy Lotto tickets.
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Most people can't eat that kind of stuff.
Yes, but they might value it nonetheless.
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If we lose The Hobbit, it won't help NZ actors. No actor is going to be forced to work on it. Every actor who appears in it gets face-time in something that will be seen by millions of people.
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What timing. Bernard Hickey is tiring of the kool aid.
I've been noticing similar conversions amongst former ACToid acquaintances, and this predates the recent scandals. Laissez-faire has never been popular during depressions.
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Poorer people spend more of their money on food, so this change would make more difference to the poor than the rich.
Do they buy a lot of fresh food though? It's always more expensive, for the obvious reason that it's better, and it doesn't stay fresh for long. I think people in the middle would be the only ones who might change any of their habits over this, and even then I'm very dubious - as Russell pointed out in the post, price of fresh fluctuates annually many, many times more than even 15%.
As always, the people who will benefit most in absolute terms will be the wealthy, who always buy fresh, always have, and always will.
Seriously, if this is about poor people eating, the better way is to drop income tax at the bottom, increase welfare. Then they can decide if everyone else's ideology that they should eat fresh whether they can really afford to or not should apply to them. Or spend it on any one of a thousand other things that money can buy and fucking the tax system can't.
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