Moana - Luxon interview

[king1]

food and water are necessities - how many jobs and hours worked are choices determined by lifestyle factors eg wanting to maintain the existing lifestyle, in face of rising costs.  But either way, give them all a break, let them have their day off...

No when putting food on the table or paying rent requires someone to work 60 plus hours a week or 2 or 3 jobs that no longer is a choice.

of course it is, every aspect of the food, the rent, the table, one has is a choice, not always particularly palatable and a lot of people do it hard, but it is still a choice.   Some will work 80 hours for a better lifestyle, still a choice... At the other extreme, living in a tent in a camping ground to save money is a not very nice choice...

Everyone is too quick these days to externalise their problems and make it someone else's fault... 
Am I starting to sound like a Nat supporter?

[Wainuiguy]

No when putting food on the table or paying rent requires someone to work 60 plus hours a week or 2 or 3 jobs that no longer is a choice.

of course it is, every aspect of the food, the rent, the table, one has is a choice, not always particularly palatable and a lot of people do it hard, but it is still a choice.   Some will work 80 hours for a better lifestyle, still a choice... At the other extreme, living in a tent in a camping ground to save money is a not very nice choice...

Everyone is too quick these days to externalise their problems and make it someone else's fault... 
Am I starting to sound like a Nat supporter?

Spoken like a true champagne socialist.

[king1]

of course it is, every aspect of the food, the rent, the table, one has is a choice, not always particularly palatable and a lot of people do it hard, but it is still a choice.   Some will work 80 hours for a better lifestyle, still a choice... At the other extreme, living in a tent in a camping ground to save money is a not very nice choice...

Everyone is too quick these days to externalise their problems and make it someone else's fault... 
Am I starting to sound like a Nat supporter?

Spoken like a true champagne socialist.

lol, that might be true if I were a socialist...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

A choice is still a choice, even when it is a truly awful one. I know this because I have been in that place several times.

[Oldfellah]

The real choice will be made on election day 2023

[Oh_hunnihunni]

And the Greens still won't get in. But I'll vote anyway. Because it is my choice.

[Magoo]

i choose not to participate
im holding out for anarchy, or perhaps a benevolent dictatorship.