
Originally Posted by
scumdog
So... when our dollar is worth jack-shit and our cockies are then making so many Kiwi pesos per US $ how do they win when all the gear they need has to come from overseas..like the US...where the product costs so any more Kiwi peso??
Firstly not all the gear they need has to come from overseas. We have a fantastic agricultural manufacturing sector here.
Secondly there are only 150,000 people involved in agriculture..... and still producing the majority of our export receipts. They would have to spend an awful lot of money to exceed that which the rest of us collectively spend. How many of us earn even a single brass razoo from overseas. We feed off each other.
Therin lies the key to future wealth and glory. Concentrate on those areas of endeavour where we have a world wide comparative advantage. Forget about trying to compete in labour markets with third world countries. Bill Birch's Employment Contract Act... FFS who wants to compete with the $2 a day 50% of the world earns? Buy our stuff on the best markets not just from NZ.
Oh wait, isn't that what the Fourth Labour govt. brought in. The problem was they left out a vital ingredient in the formula for success and that is reducing the population.
Oh wait, isn't that what Winnie wanted?
A population of 1.5 million people is large enough to reap the benefits of economies of scale and small enough to avoid the disadvantages of dis economies of scale. The ratio of producers to consumers increases and the country booms.
Imagine half the cars and trucks on our roads. Half the cops...
NZ would be a bikers paradise.
The fishing would be a hell of a lot better too.
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