New Zealand 2025: Envisaging the Future
March 17th, 2011Before the earthquake of February 22nd I had been working on an outline for where I saw NZ today and where I believed it could be in 2025. It’s very much a hi level view but it’s a starting point. Though things have changed since the big shake my vision hasn’t. If anything it has simply reinforced my thoughts. Over time I will flesh out the different ideas and hopefully make it more accessible to all. In the meantime feel free to think about where you believe we can be in 2025.
As Yogi Berra said, “if you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there”.
Tags: 2025, balance, debt, education, future, health, money, new zealand, sustainability, technology, vision
March 28th, 2011 at 3:16 am
To take just one of the many idiocies:
“All Work is Valued and Recognised.”
Even work that doesn’t produce anything of value to anyone?
March 28th, 2011 at 7:00 am
Andrew,
Thank you for your comment and question.
I would respond by saying that the term work suggests that it is an activity of value otherwise it wouldn’t be work. Work tends to mean human labour. There is much work that is not valued. an example being looking after children, doing house work, caring for unwell relatives. All of this work is easily substitutable and therefore simple to value.
Currently it is not valued which is the point I was making.
June 18th, 2011 at 3:02 am
You said: “All of this work is easily substitutable and therefore simple to value.”
What do you mean by “substitutable?”
June 18th, 2011 at 4:04 am
Hi Rita,
What I mean is we can find others to do the same work: nannies for mothers, nurses for carers etc. To say this work has no value or cannot be valued is clearly false.
October 18th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
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