#guyonespiner — Public Fediverse posts
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"We've had 4 or 5 decades... of an economic system that says 'don't worry about concentration of wealth, eventually that will flow down, everyone will be better off', and a lot of people are going, '... that's not what we're experiencing, the cost of living is getting more, we're feeling more marginalised economically, our jobs are less secure', and they want something different"
#ChrisHipkins, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=529f222f-cd18-45ae-9a52-39bfda42b320
Bang on, but ...
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"I think the Green Party in Britain has adopted your wealth tax policy. But the centre-left Labour Party is not going to do that, are they."
#GuyonEspiner, 2025
I don't want to pick on Guyon, but this is a classic example of news media defining 'centre-left' as 'whatever the largest liberal party says at any given time'. You'd think the NZ Labour of the 1980s would have showed them that's not a meaningful way to define it.
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"Not that commercial. I think it used to drive the record companies crazy, and I think that's why I never really fit in, in the music industry."
#DonMcGlashan, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/30-with-guyon-espiner/story/2019016171/don-mcglashan
Intriguing! Because as a teenager I perceived McGlashan's band The Muttonbirds as quintessentially commercial pop music. Right up there with Crowded House, some of whom also came from an avantgarde background (Split Enz), and who also had some quirky songs (Chocolate Cake).
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"If I'm really frank, for me [capitalism is] a growth in society in which wealth is accumulated in particular at the top, and less so at the bottom, and it depends on the theory of that wealth being redistributed through ... trickle-down ... It's also a way that our society - probably quite recently - has swung more towards."
#BarbaraEdmonds, #NZLabour finance spokesperson, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=a2e309c8-38d9-4597-b028-855766e58d9f
Video here: