How Did New Zealand Become Rich? - VisualPolitik EN

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Title	:	How Did New Zealand Become Rich? - VisualPolitik EN
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As New Zealander I find it extremely annoying that we have had previous governments that have screwed up the economy and taken us from one of the wealthiest countries in the world to middle The current government also have overspend and been corrupt Hopefully in the future we can get back on track
Comment from : Michael Atkinson

Natz 🔥🇳🇿🔥🇨🇳🔥
Comment from : River of Stars

Peter Thiel a 'legit bloodsucker' 💯💀🩸
Comment from : River of Stars

I've lived in NZ since 2007 and actually became a citizen in 2016, renouncing my US citizenship It is indeed the best country in the world in which to live, and the natives ALMOST speak English! BUT, if those other countries in Europe and South America try to replicate our road to prosperity, I do not think it will work The difference is scale: there are only about 5,000,000 Kiwis, and those countries you mention have dramatically larger and more diverse populations They also have large cities and urban populations and their attendant problems, which would make many of the proposed reforms VERY hard to implement Think about it: Madrid has 30 more people than our whole country, in one compressed area! So, all you other people, come here and enjoy the great weather and the fabulous countryside and the safe and friendly atmosphere Even move here, if you qualify (it's not too easy), but don't think you can easily copy the changes that have made this country great!
Comment from : Rusty Turner

Mans got no idea what nz is like lmao
Comment from : Jesse W

A few people here have mentioned that there is a housing crisis, which there is and homelessness which is also true However, the main thing is that there are many people here working towards sustainable solutions so the future is not as bleak as they might realise The government is now funding the Housing First model to go out and find homeless people and people living in emergency housing and to put them into warm, dry, safe, permanent homes If this is something that really concerns you, you are welcome to come and help us I got my job by googling homelessness in NZ and going from there The housing crisis is also real, but there seems to be a growing national consensus (especially among the younger generation), that the government needs to honour the treaty that was signed in 1840 by most Maori tribes and the British Crown One significant change I hope to see in the next few years is that regulations will be freed up to allow residential homes to built more easily on collectively owned Maori land as well as the vast tracts of council owned land in Auckland which is currently being used for a small minority to play golf (and is being subsidised by tax payers to the tune of millions of dollars every year) The answers are out there and we're continuing to move forward I just wanted to offer up a positive (but realistic) take on some of the genuine concerns expressed below
Comment from : Jason Penny

My favourite county to visit ie India and lastly New Zealand in Jesus Christ name Amen 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 by Steve Irungu Jermaine
Comment from : steve irungu

No blacks equals success, wealth, and no crime!
Comment from : Ddd

Hhmm, the discourse has shifted a bit in 5 years I'm sure there is plenty to criticise about the way things were prior to the monumental changes that came about in the 80's and 90's However, I hope we can zoom out and look at the bigger picture to see what the results of those changes have been on a macro and micro scale - stagnant wage growth for decades when compared to the rising cost of living and property prices, a widening gap between the nations wealthiest and poorest, erosion of the middle class, further concentration of wealth, influence and power in the hands of an elite few, declining biodiversity and a collapsing natural environment Definitely need a more nuanced analysis of the policies enacted by the 4th Labour and 4th National Governments, a deepdive into the immediate short term benefits vs the long term trends which are seen today as largely detrimental would be great!
Comment from : Ari Lewis

easy john key stole trillion and hiding it away under billionaires
Comment from : Peter YO Kahuii

Unfortunately the Labour government has gone out of its way to bring back Moldunism (state control of everything) The state service has increased, health and education results are terrible Literacy rates have fallen to 70!!! I have to get private health insurance because I can't even get into a public hospital and why would even want to go to one! Doomed to repeat our mistakes over and over again
Comment from : Kiwi Busa

Yet look at NZ now we have no govt assets all owned off shore the banks all off shore billions a year sent off shore NZ now in more debt than ever thanks to Jacinda more child poverty abuse than ever before more suicides more homeless families living in cars Price of housing still 10x incomes And govtbringing more regulation on our farmers and taxed than pre 84 Also Rodger Douglas got rid of tradeschool so early 2000s we had what's called leaky homes And I could hit you with way more facts that show you that the Liberal way hasn't worked out for Joe average The only positive is NZ being the last country to be settled wether that's Maori 800 yrs ago or Birts 250 yrs ago
Comment from : Colin Cameron

MAn this video really reminds me how lucky i am to live in New Zealand, could be a lot worse places to be eh?
Comment from : Harry Hines

What a joke! The market at less cost? Why did auckland end up with a main electric cable blow-up and had no backup, no building of the secondary cable to the central city- yes, the works planned were CAN-CELLL-ED by the privatised company! model by market clowns in control Businesses had no power for months!brWe have a auction system at the wholesale end for electricity- just as what Maggot-Head Thatcher installed for you bitches in the UK- yes, cheap and efficient isn't it?brJesus mate, your b****/b needs a complete rewrite!
Comment from : Snow Hare

You know, the pine forests are owned by the Chinese Hell, the country doesn't even make tissue pulp anymore- it's imported The dunny rolls are made here by one company, but that's not nz owned and they WERE going to close that!
Comment from : Snow Hare

Aotearoa New Zealand went from the 3rd highest GDP in 1950 to the 50th ranking GDP Our economy declined from Neo Liberal policies in the 1980's where all state owned assets were hocked off on the cheap to the business roundtable
Comment from : Aotearoa Actual

NZ was never rich and will never be rich
Comment from : Dan King

As a kiwi who went through this change I can tell you it was painful and you have really only caught the better of it all NZ is a great place to live but they have been trying hard to ruin it all with this woke crap imported from USA
Comment from : Michael Christian

It's just a bloody shame creeping americanism is infecting our land I wish that crap would stay inside their wall!
Comment from : Stephen Cruickshank

This is an eye opener Thanks for the info I think the US could learn a lot i am from Texas
Comment from : alan kemper

This didnt age well
Comment from : Jonathan Kelly

Extremely misleading Before Rogernomics and Ruthanasia, and before the 1970s, New Zealand was one of the richest and most egalitarian countries in the world It is now average among rich countries, it is certainly not as wealthy as Australia
Comment from : Shahid Khan

It's easy, you just have to sell all of your land and sea assets to foreign investors
Comment from : Snivy

Oh how quickly things can change brThe current left wing government and its bureaucrats are determined to have more control over all aspects of the economy again, because they think they know best
Comment from : LoncotoroLivin

nice
Comment from : Nini Rema

are the chinese buying the houses like here in australia
Comment from : fred smith

They are becoming rich by NZ immigration scambr Taking loads of money from stident and denting entry to country
Comment from : TUMBAD🙂🙏

i feel like the clips shown make nz look all sunshine and ranbows its not all ways the case
Comment from : Jack Conlan

Venturing into the financial market investing without the help of a professional trader and expecting profits is like turning water into wine, you would need a miracle, that's why i invest with Mrs Mary Maxwell, her investment strategies are high yielding
Comment from : David Chris

Australia off the sheep's backbrNew Zealand on the sheep's brBacklol
Comment from : Bethy Mears

NZ one of the most ideal countries in the world because they are humble enough to admit mistakes and learn from it ❤
Comment from : Nor-ain Pangcoga

A role modelbrWell you should have seen brWhat they done to our brMarino's
Comment from : Bethy Mears

New Zealand is a great country, but stay were you are in the world, we don't need to increase the population, that would kill it's personal touch
Comment from : Waka Waata

cómo ha cambiado Fonseca desde la última vez ya hasta presenta los videos en inglés
Comment from : Jorge Sepulveda

Yeah for sure But raise the damned hourly rate to a minimum of 26 an hour And drop the damned price of fuels to below 150 NZD
Comment from : T3H11 3LL1S

As a KiwiNZ is the best place in the world to liveregardless of economics
Comment from : Dan Windsurf

Police will knock your door if you have a different opinion than jacinda ardern
Comment from : Vignesh N

You are very truebrWe do not corruptbrWe do not cheat to succeedbrWe are friendly peoplebrHonest and truebrWe are number 1nark on this planet so watchout
Comment from : Spider Mek

El pelon en español habla con acento español y en ingles habla con accento ingles, grande johnny sins
Comment from : Slurpii

this guys a fkg a@#hole and a paid stoogewouldn't know a truth if it slapped him harddon't bother listening any further
Comment from : rawiniah

No it's another fake news vlogg, cut it out you DEMONS!
Comment from : Liza Henry

We have a gov that panders to chinayou a bullshit artistfuc off dickhead
Comment from : Ken Tonge

NZ is rich if you live in the top 1
Comment from : Thomas Dellabarca

it will be cool if ubsolf made a AC game about this?NZ
Comment from : syntaxz

Hahaha this is our country your talking about mate Your research is a bit up the fuck though unemployment and inequality run rampant here🤔🤪
Comment from : Luke Peita

You are almost right but not quite Thinking you might be a goof
Comment from : Frank Melkert

This country has a desire to give money to the lazy and tax the hard workers
Comment from : Andrew Wards

capitalism!!!
Comment from : Benikio

What we need to realise , we live in the best country the world Once you grasp that concept , make it happen
Comment from : Ron Miller

I've heard wages dont go very far in NZ
Comment from : alex lanning

Nz slowwwww Sureeeeeeeee smarttttttttttttan an safeeeeeeeee
Comment from : Pee Tak

A far bigger question would be: How did NZ vote in Jacinda Ardern, their Communist Prime Minister ?
Comment from : susette mclachlan

He real needs to research more Helen Clarks government was forced to buy back Air New Zealand, (private Air New Zealand went broke) Bought back Kiwi Rail after investors ran it down Started Kiwi Bank to compete against the Australia banks which were previous sold to Australia Don't mention the privatization of power We had the cheapest in the world before soldbrHelen Clark's government had implemented a lot of other things that still operating today, that have not failed
Comment from : Marty

Sad that such a rich country is forgotten on half of all world maps
Comment from : Enoch Lam

Our education system is working fullbr In the 80s several of our universities were in the top 200 worldwide Now thiers only one
Comment from : Johan Meischke

What a load of crap, even the white people here can't afford to buy a house
Comment from : Justin Tyme

Fkn bs
Comment from : Peter Gardner

It was not all roses during that transition The best way to explain is like the UK when they shut down the mines A lot of people were not happy They knew it needed to be done, they weren't happy with the way it was done
Comment from : murray crichton

Im a kiwi and this is just rubbishpoeple talk so much rubbish on utubei left home 30 years ago and things are a lot worse auckland is the 4th most expensive city in the world😎😎😎😎
Comment from : Chris Taylor

when I eat 2 roasted chickens and you eat 0 chicken , the average chickens eaten by each of us is One ! you are well served !
Comment from : arni sls

They have two multi purpose boeing 757s that can be configured for that but is mostly used for military transport
Comment from : Colin Sutherland

Lots of miss information The Rogernomics era of neoliberal so called reforms has left terrible scars on NZ society and ecology and it still continues to this day The NZ landscape is an ecological disaster The apparent beauty is almost entirely based on invasive weeds and very damaging exotic fauna It is a con job This eulogy for Rogernomics is not shared by all The inequities are far worse today The abuse of the environment by farmers who captured the regulatory institutions as a result of the gutting of the civil service Education levels are actually not so great The local school board model just mean the rich got richer and the poor schools got screwed The opening up of the boarders has meant that there is now almost no industry in NZ The only industries left are tourism and agriculrure which has an insatiable appetite for low wage workers who change bed sheets and serve coffee or pick apples or milk cows Vast numbers of low wage immigrants have been imported The brain drain of the 1980s is more like a brain tsunami now brSo , although NZ has managed some things it has done it at great cost Some of the apparent benefits are really a sort of Ponzi scheme which creates benefits now but expects the next generations to pay dearly
Comment from : Andrew Paterson

I'm glad I'm in NZ but things are corrupt asf here They kill our children, our old folk with no regard for the law or human rights If you pop up too high they'll take you out and the taxes just keep getting ridiculous And don't get me into the conflicts of interest in regards to politics and business They are constantly poisoning us 1030 is dropped on us at around 25kg per hectare It keeps increasing yet the pests are still rampantmost of them are sitting in the beehive attempting the fleece as much money for themselves as possible The list is endless at how corrupt our govt is We have pedophiles involved with the running our countrythe personal crimes and silencing of the people is endless by these criminals
Comment from : Kathleen McKay

The British annexation of Aokealoa was illegal because of the fraudulent treaty of waitangi which did not involve Aokealoa Kānaka Maoli Sovereign because the missionaries christian islanders had slaughtered them
Comment from : Aokealoa Kanaka Maoli

They got rich by slaughtering between 15000 & 18000 Aokealoa Aboriginals with muskets and pillaging its natural resources & land
Comment from : Aokealoa Kanaka Maoli

Instead of actively engaging in the reason why New Zealand's economy started to collapse throughout the 60s and 70s, a large part being our largest export products were wool and sheep meat, the former's price crashing somewhat to do with the movement towards synthetic fabrics globally and due to some of the major purchasers of New Zealand wool (like the US armed forces) having less demand for it, and a another large part being one of our largest trading partners entering the EEC and decimating our export industries, both of which - when in conjunction with rising oil prices during the shocks in the 70s - led to the New Zealand Dollar crashing in terms of purchasing power globally and thus we weren't able to buy foreign goods which our standard of living relied upon any more, this video propagandises for largely rejected economic visions and analyses of the 1980s and early 1990sbrbrThe large levels of taxation and government regulation had been in effect from the First Labour Government in the 1930s and onward, and those self-same built the robust economy of the late 50sbrbrThis is libertarian garbage which ignores that the deregulation and privatisation of the economy in the mid-80s to mid-90s caused New Zealand's standard of living to continue to fall for all but a few until the late-90s when reaction started to change course again away from Rogernomics and RuthanasiabrbrThe amount of people in poor households - taken as earning 60 of the median income or less - went from 9 of the population in 1984 to 23 in 1994 ( archivestatsgovtnz/browse_for_stats/snapshots-of-nz/nz-social-indicators/Home/Standard20of20living/pop-low-incomesaspx)brbrIf anything, the cautionary tale of New Zealand in the 60s and 70s is that it was an economy reliant on too few trading partners exporting too few products and was thus beholden to fluctuations in both the trading partners willingness to conduct business with them, and the prices of those few export goods It was diversification of both these things rather than deregulation and privatisation which started to reverse the crashing living standards
Comment from : David Parfitt

Kia ora Visual Politik EN, thanks for the video, I know it's really old, but I just wanted to mention you got a series of things wrong in this video and it is pretty concerning, Aotearoa did not benefit from NeoLiberal Politics in the slightest our dept rate did not drop after it was introduced in 1985, it just became privatised, in fact it doubled in the same year and kept doubling until 2017 when the coalition government began to reintroduce some of our Social Democratic laws As a result of neoliberal politics in Aotearoa we had one of the highest child poverty rates in the OECD, unemployment tripled, we have the highest suicide rates in the world, we are facing a housing crisis we previously weren't and we are now facing a meth epidemic
Comment from : Michael Pudney

How did New Zealand become rich? The settler population fuelled on a belief of racial superiority stole and confiscated everything they saw fit from the indigenous population
Comment from : Hemopereki Hoani Simon

For the record, there are many people ( this obviously includes children and elderly people) who live in abject poverty
Comment from : Gitano Espana

NZ is not rich we get robbed and now we have a watch in power telling us all the covid bug is real, but we have a rising star defender who is standing for the free world Billy Te Kahika, you should interview him!
Comment from : StGammon77

Its still evolving - new ideas & approaches to Maori issues Before it was exclusive of maori & now it's changed slowly to being inclusive of maori - providing more resources for development
Comment from : Werimu Mauriohooho

I love New Zealand 😀😀😀 Greetings from 🇨🇦
Comment from : Wes Sudol

The government let too many people into the country and caused a housing crisis
Comment from : M Laffey

In actual fact, during the Labour governments of 1984-1990 (David Lange being Prime Minister, and Roger Douglas of "Rogernomics" fame being the Minister of Finance for most of this time) unemployment more than doubled from over 100,000 to well over 200,000 Not big numbers by world standards, but we only had 32 million people here at the time brbrThe election campaign of 1990 was unusual as it seemed that neither of the major parties wanted to win - things were so bad that no-one wanted to clear up the mess By the time I left for the UK in late-1991, the Jim Bolger led National government had destroyed worker's rights, and admitted that unemployment was at 24 !!! When I returned in late-2006, things had improved so much, it was hard to believe it was the same countrybrbrThe John Key/Bill English led National governments of 2008-2017 were much loved by economists etc, and did get the budget back to surplus - but at huge social costs Their main idea for economic growth was to allow immigration to run rampant and not spend anything on infrastructure - house prices going through the roof making it impossible for people saving for a house deposit to ever be able to catch up, crowded roads hospitals schools etcbrbrHere we are in 2020 Many of us only have jobs because of a government wage subsidy paid to Covid-19 affected businesses - but the subsidy will end about a month before the election And of course, due to the effects of Covid-19, many tourism related businesses have already folded and those that are left will depend on NZers traveling domestically - a difficult situation given job insecurity, low wages, & high costs in NZ
Comment from : Leon Theaker

Thiel is pronounced as an aspirated "t", not a "th"; ie, like in "Thailand", not in "think"
Comment from : tstcikhthyss

So many wrong facts please if your interested in New Zealand ask me I'll see you straight I lived through these times
Comment from : Tom nz

BS mateyNZ aint rich, low wages for majority, health care really sucks, vote left or right nothing changes except for the wealthy!! and yes corruption does existand high rates of teen suicides Its the same shit in a different year now And of course multi nationals dont pay enough tax! Fact Too many immigrants now hence homelessness is apparent en mass Templars rule the 5 eyes!! NZ butter and exported foods are actually cheaper to buy in Londinstan than here
Comment from : simple simon

OH nO, miNiMUM WaGEs!
Comment from : Чувак

How did NZ get rich?brSimon : "They were already rich" brIt's called colonial money 👀
Comment from : Rich Sly Fly

Load of crap I left for Queensland 30 years ago Best move ever
Comment from : spig Stig

Any other Kiwis here?
Comment from : Endkiller 7

Straight up BS Neo liberal policies have sold NZ to Australia and meant bailouts of banks, the railways and the national airline Nope not a capitalist utopia
Comment from : Sebastian Morrell

I just looked up Purchasing Power Parity GDP for New Zealand compared to the rest of the world They are #32 and have $42,000 per capita, which puts them BELOW Spain and most other European countries The US is #10 at $67,000 High wages are not that great to have if your prices are also extremely high, thats why one needs to look at Purchase Power Parity when comparing countries wages and standards of living Simon only reads from a teleprompter what some one puts before him and mostly it is not well researched
Comment from : Derek Marlowe

It has some nice scenery but Auckland is lackluster and rather boring Otherwise there are only a smattering of small towns and once you get out of town most of the roads are gravel and so there is really nowhere to go when you get bored with the small town you live in You can go hiking or camping but that gets old after a while Simon talks about how high the salaries are but, as usual, he has never been to most of the places he talks about and thinks he is an expert New Zealand prices in store are at least double or triple the US prices I shopped for some sports clothing and a simple T shirt was $68 and shoes were double what I usually pay The country is a long long way from everywhere except Australia and it can cause feelings of isolation and depression for many who move there
Comment from : Derek Marlowe

I'm a Kiwi who has lived in two other countries and have visited many more I'm glad I live in NZ again now, especially under the Covid-19 crisis NZ has a lot going for it Comparatively we are a less corrupt, better educated, freer and fairer society than most, but the gap between rich and poor is getting wider, and we're not as green as we advertise Our tax system was simplified and our highest income tax rate is now 33, but we have a Goods and Services Tax (GST) of 15 on almost everything We need it, because most of our social services, including universal healthcare, and infrastructure are tax-funded NZ is a social democracy, a free market economy with a social bent, and generally a great country to live in, but like every nation it's better for some than others, and there is always room for improvement
Comment from : Margaret P

Misleading video clips You would think those protests related to what the commentator was talking about, but I suspect they relate to protests again rugby tours and Maori land protests I don't recall any economic protests of that nature
Comment from : Margaret P