Fairly scathing
Fairly? This article doesn't pull any punches đ
Kind of like watching a Lean In seminar hosted by the ghost of Margaret Thatcher.
âWe support women,â they chorused. Just not enough to pay them fairly.
Turns out you can have it all. So long as youâre prepared to be a c... to the women who birth your kids, school your offspring and wipe the arse of your elderly parents while you stand on their shoulders to earn your six-figure, taxpayer-funded pay packet.
Some of her colleagues call her Brooke GPT. Itâs not clear if thatâs because of her robotic delivery, or because her answers usually come up short.
Itâs a bit rich to describe these claims as fiscally unsustainable when the last Budget found billions in tax relief for landlords, property speculators and high earners. Plenty of cash for capital gains, but not for caregivers.
Saving money by cancelling justice.
And then selling it by claiming theyâre doing feminism a favour by lighting it on fire and calling it efficiency. Richardson would be proud.
Its been interesting reading some of the blow-back Vance took for her language. Willis herself was not happy with the "c word" being used, nor the depiction of her "girl-maths" as a derogatory assessment of her abilities as a finance minister.
Setting aside the language used, the intent of the assessment rings true to someone who knew of Willis when she was at University (and knows people who knew her well). She wasn't a deep thinker then, and got ahead on connection and socialising with the right people more than anything else as far as we could see.
Nobody I know from back then has seen anything since that would change their opinion either. It seems pretty obvious to me that she's in a position of decision making far in excess of her ability to reason and understand what she is doing, or the long term implications of it.
But like most of her prior "work" experience she's ballooned in on the recommendation of well connected others, and mostly because she can be relied upon to unleash the magical thinking of the Atlas aligned fundamentalists.
Sounds like she was destined for politics!
what the odds of a one term gov? from across the ditch they look like some pretty cooked nutters.
but not polling that bad https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9903-nz-national-voting-intention-april-2025 (rando search result)
I think people online have a shockingly inaccurate assessment of the average kiwi. Kiwis are by and large much more conservative than people think. More conservative, more racist, more ignorant, more stupid, and more cruel than you or the rest of the world thinks.
@BalpeenHammer @quoll , not the ones that I know.
I think the bigger problem already might be that the 'pied Pipers' of industry make to many offers that can't be refused (otherwise how can people that not that long ago gave one opinion now claim the opposite,
I mean, are they nut jobs pretending to be normal or just haven't they got enough backbone to stand against orders from the top, or the money is too good - both I guess).@BalpeenHammer @quoll
It depends on income, education and living situation like everywhere in the world.
I was 2008/9 in Nz and found so many helpful people of any type, like in the gone GDR - but not today in modern countries.
Its hard to say, typically takes a wee while for Kiwis to admit the mistake, or experience the buyers remorse of a National government. Plus with the trend amongst western liberal democracy towards authoritarianism, the massive funding gap between the two major parties and the inevitable disinformation shitstorm ramping up even more around election time on Facebook where seemingly so many morons learn about the world its very much a 50/50 even if this lot get even more unpopular.
Thanks for sharing this. I hadn't seen it.
