Posts by Kumara Republic
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Short answer: no, because Main Street sees little if any of the benefits.
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And 2016 has sadly seen yet another passing - Isao Tomita.
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Access: The Meltdown, in reply to Russell Brown,
As much as my son wants more work, I do worry about him going into a workplace I don't know and trust. It's really easy for this to happen.
Gainful employment remains a biggie for us aspies. I've said it before, but an on-the-job training approach seems to work best - when you can find one in this deregulated labour market. And the advice I've been given by an ICT industry mentor is that "the reality is that without a stellar CV, connections are the best way to enter the ICT sector - it's not what you know, it's who you know." Much easier said than done for the neuro-diverse.
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Tiger parenting most certainly falls into the "DO NOT become angry with me or raise your voice" category. It's been cited as a major factor in the emergence of Japan's hikikomori.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber driver, in reply to goforit,
Now you proberly get an idea why taxi meters are set where they are, everyone needs to be able to live off the work they do, its not all about the customers getting a really cheap deal.
Especially when a lot of taxi drivers happen to be migrants who, for various reasons, can't find jobs in their chosen field.
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Hard News: Media Take: The Panama Papers, in reply to Sacha,
Astute. The people who need this govt removed the most have stopped voting.
And also because Third Wayism and Blue Dogism are so 1997.
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Polity: A short history of half-baked…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
On to of that there was the axing of many apprenticeships leading to the current shortage of construction workers.
Hell, much of the apprenticeship system itself went out the door with the passage of the old Employment Contracts Act, and NZ has been playing a game of catch-up since. On that note, for all of NZ Labour's issues, their digital apprenticeship policy is a potential deal-maker.
And now for a quick history lesson: the Irishman who gave us the term 'boycott' was a rentier in the land & property business. If enough tenants vote with their feet, could it potentially hold a pin to the bubble, even if it means living out of suitcases or cars or tents?
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It seems that the simmering Uber controversy is in danger of proving Ned Ludd right. I've come to the view that the original Luddites weren't opposed to technology, but rather they were opposed to rentier feudalism.
Specifically with Uber, far from cutting out the middlemen - ie the taxi industry and its associated red tape - Uber has basically created a new middleman of its own.
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Alfie,
Weldon has emerged from the Board meeting in Auckland.
When asked if he still had the confidence of his board, he replied, “I think so”.
Didn't Caesar remark that he had Brutus' unconditional loyalty in 44 BCE?
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
It's always the case that when a new supermarket opens, there are at least 10 applicants lining up for each advertised position. It's like the UK Tories' "Labour Isn't Working" posters from 1979, but with the political colours inverted.