The market is incentivized to earn money at all costs that's why we have a government with no profit motive to regulate them. Unfortunately national thinks the government is a business and should be run as such.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

Did you know that Luxon was CEO of Air New Zealand? /s

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yesn't. They might each be bad people but the market is a system that attracts bad people. We need a system that holds them in check.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 8 points 4 months ago

IMHO we just need to regulate the market to make it less attractive than interesting in productive investments.

Labor tried it with disallowing interest expenses.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Land Value Tax solves the problem.

[–] Audacious@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

The players make the game.

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 months ago

I love this meme.