Occupy Dunedin?

[Scuba_Steve]

That's yet another hint to those that didn't choose to work towards a good career.

Not surprising it's going over their head, though, all the advice at school didn't sink in.

yea fucking morons who wanted to become doctors, cops, teachers, vets, nurses, engineers, truckies & other useful people in society. Idiots should have all become useless greedy money grabbing corrupt 1%ers

[Winston001]

yea fucking morons who wanted to become doctors, cops, teachers, vets, nurses, engineers, truckies & other useful people in society. Idiots should have all become useless greedy money grabbing corrupt 1%ers

I'm genuinely puzzled about this 1% in New Zealand terms. So far as I can tell we don't have a lot of extremely wealthy people - but perhaps I'm naive or blind.

But assuming they exist, does it really matter? We all die eventually and personal wealth gets distributed among families who forget how hard it was to get in the first place...and spend it.

Anyway, my experience is that wealthy people look very ordinary and you'd never know about them. The ones I've dealt with are not in professional occupations: instead they have a knack, a personal ability to succeed where 99 of us would not. And sometimes their fortune has come from pure dumb luck - but they have understood how to retain it when the luck ends.

[Oscar]

I'm genuinely puzzled about this 1% in New Zealand terms. So far as I can tell we don't have a lot of extremely wealthy people - but perhaps I'm naive or blind.

But assuming they exist, does it really matter? We all die eventually and personal wealth gets distributed among families who forget how hard it was to get in the first place...and spend it.

Anyway, my experience is that wealthy people look very ordinary and you'd never know about them. The ones I've dealt with are not in professional occupations: instead they have a knack, a personal ability to succeed where 99 of us would not. And sometimes their fortune has come from pure dumb luck - but they have understood how to retain it when the luck ends.

I agree.
The top 1% in NZ aren't going to be Bankers or Sharebrokers, and those occupations don't suffer from the excesses of Wall Street anyway.
There is a propesity amongst the 99% crowd to automatically accept and transfer the propaganda from New York to a NZ context. Very naive.

[mashman]

I agree.
The top 1% in NZ aren't going to be Bankers or Sharebrokers, and those occupations don't suffer from the excesses of Wall Street anyway.
There is a propesity amongst the 99% crowd to automatically accept and transfer the propaganda from New York to a NZ context. Very naive.

gold! cheers Oscar

[Oscar]

gold! cheers Oscar

So you know who the top 1% are in NZ?
Care to enlighten us?

[mashman]

So you know who the top 1% are in NZ?
Care to enlighten us?

That's not why I'm laughing. But please, don't break with your tradition of putting words into my mouth (there's a hint)... the alternative doesn't bare thinking about.

[BoristheBiter]

That's not why I'm laughing. But please, don't break with your tradition of putting words into my mouth (there's a hint)... the alternative doesn't bare thinking about.

As long as it's only words.

[mashman]

As long as it's only words.

get out, OUT, never darken my door again you sick twisted puppy

[BoristheBiter]

get out, OUT, never darken my door again you sick twisted puppy

[Oscar]

That's not why I'm laughing. But please, don't break with your tradition of putting words into my mouth (there's a hint)... the alternative doesn't bare thinking about.

I'd rather not dwell on what other people put in your mouth, but if you want to use my words, go right ahead - yours have never made much sense.

[mashman]

I'd rather not dwell on what other people put in your mouth, but if you want to use my words, go right ahead - yours have never made much sense.

I can't get my tongue around your words...

[BoristheBiter]

I can't get my tongue around your words...

Words, first time I've heard it called that before.

[mashman]

Words, first time I've heard it called that before.

some people have tattoos of their mothers name in some funny pla

[jazfender]

So you know who the top 1% are in NZ?
Care to enlighten us?

This information is not difficult to find. Here's an article for you and the Forbes top 40 richest people in Australia and New Zealand, as a snapshot:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...-rich-and-poor

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/78/Rank_1.html

Also here's more from the NBR Rich List 2011:

http://www.therichest.org/nation/nbr-rich-list-2011/

[oldrider]

This "occupy" thing is not going to go away anytime soon, as fast as world economies deteriorate, "occupy" will grow!

Confusion, discontent, loss of respect for authority, collective and individual hopelessness will encourage Civil disorder and evolve into chaos!

99% aggrieved with someone (1%) to blame? .... Recipe for disaster.

History has shown us many times the peasants are most revolting when they are revolting .... it will not be pretty!

IMHO a bigger threat than nuclear war.

It's just nature's way it seems!