It’s a mark of just how bad things have got that both Labour and National are at last promising to do something about the supermarkets. Minor parties are offering interventions too, including state-owned shops.
A short opinion piece on how neoliberalism has affected the NZ economy in the late 20th C.
I might have got the wrong end of the article, but I thought the point of the article was that the state should play a much larger part in essentials. State run infrastructure, state housing, state run services, perhaps state run grocery stores.
While I support and agree with what you’re saying around how there are parties that are going for large scale change in ways that would benefit the country, I am not sure any are explicitly calling for what is talked about in the original post?
I might have got the wrong end of the article, but I thought the point of the article was that the state should play a much larger part in essentials. State run infrastructure, state housing, state run services, perhaps state run grocery stores.
While I support and agree with what you’re saying around how there are parties that are going for large scale change in ways that would benefit the country, I am not sure any are explicitly calling for what is talked about in the original post?