Bryce Wilkinson: The case for attracting foreign investment

New Zealand’s current legislative approach to overseas investment is a mess.

It is a mess because it does not focus on what is important – facilitating strong connections to the rest of the world while protecting New Zealand’s sovereignty.

New Zealand’s prosperity depends on its ability to access overseas markets, technologies, knowhow, and capital. We must compete for export markets and capital, and not just with Australia.

Ross Meurant: Smarter Than Most Of Us

By sheer chance, I encountered this fellow recently and he said:

‘One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.’

‘Like, what exactly is your fair share of what someone else has worked for?’

I reached for my notebook.  I needed to record what this fellow had to say.

‘I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.’

Hang on, I said to myself, fumbling to scribe what had been said yet not in a position to tell the fellow to slow down and wait for me.

Brian Balfour - Thomas Sowell: Social Justice Is a Blank Check for Government Power

“In politics, the great non-sequitur of our time is that (1) things are not right and that (2) the government should make them right. Where right all too often means cosmic justice, trying to set things right means writing a blank check for a never ending expansion of government power.”

This key passage from Thomas Sowell’s 1999 book, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, frames Sowell’s thoughtful analysis and rejection of arguments advanced by “social justice warriors,” or more briefly, SJWs.

Although written nearly 20 years ago, Sowell’s insights are especially relevant today, when you consider the heights of influence social justice activism has reached—especially on college campuses—in 2018.

For a blueprint to understand and refute today’s increasingly vocal SJWs, Sowell’s book proves to be an indispensable resource.