tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763366316092865103.post9001062981132656872..comments2023-08-26T01:09:07.337+12:00Comments on Reflections on Auckland Planning: Auckland's Dispossessed GenerationJoel Cayfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18333945842340425946noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763366316092865103.post-86602801365468620592017-04-26T11:37:53.581+12:002017-04-26T11:37:53.581+12:00Your article could easily have been written by Kar...Your article could easily have been written by Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels, which is not for one moment to be taken to mean that I dispute your analysis. What you have chronicled here is simply one of the mechanisms that have evolved for the purpose of polarising wealth. It was inevitable. After Prebble/Douglas and their successors transferred all of the publicly owned infrastructure into Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15694492852111589110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1763366316092865103.post-22292164517249355482017-04-25T18:34:37.429+12:002017-04-25T18:34:37.429+12:00Yes ... for the price of a Kiwi house, outsiders (...Yes ... for the price of a Kiwi house, outsiders (immigrants and others of the "investor class" principally) ... get more than just the house. <br /><br />With few if any other "Charges", by purchasing a property, investors buy into existing (largely paid for") infrastructure, they join a highly desirable society that provides for their children's (hugely subsidized) Larry Mitchellnoreply@blogger.com