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Avoid success at all costs - Simon Peyton Jones

According to their website, https://www.opportunity.org.nz/free_public_transport

For starters, moving to universal free fares is a 10% funding increase, not a 100% one. We already fund around 90% of the cost of public transport from taxes and rates; fares only cover about 10% of operating costs (or roughly $300 million a year on a $3–$4 billion system). Fully free public transport is about getting the most out of the money we’ve already invested into the network.

Free public transport is what Qiulae Wong (The Opportunity Party leader) said in the interview below.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1b9PP7FZL1E

I guess it makes sense since the public already subsidises roughly 90% of the entire network?

Edit: Small correction. TOP says free public transport. What Labour announced is $20 cap. Not quite the same.

Update: It worked!

Funny how they have this accessibility button at the top now. All it does is to disable colours and some animations.

I wish more public websites were designed to work without JavaScript. I can’t imagine older adults with legacy devices enjoying this website at all.

Thanks for sharing. I wasn’t aware. Also, TIL Hbomberguy.

The fact that people view housing as an investment opportunity is a policy failure; there are tax incentives among other things. The system only stays afloat if there’s a constant influx of new people joining, and we all know there’s a name for it - Ponzi.

Thanks for sharing. Looks like the cuntdown site is still up. I’ll give it a go next time I’m shopping there. I find their app annoyingly slow at times.

There are also lite and html versions:

• https://lite.duckduckgo.com/
• https://html.duckduckgo.com/

Neither has AI enabled.

Thanks for sharing. It’s great to see many of the options are under AGPL/GPL. My faith in humanity has been restored!

What we need is a mandatory public register for lobbyists.

https://www.transparency.org.nz/blog/industry-code-of-conduct-for-lobbying

However, lobbying in Aotearoa New Zealand is unrestrained and opaque, with neither professional standards nor a public register of lobbyists and the clients they represent.

Thanks for all the hard work!

I didn’t know there were so many different frontends available for lemmy.nz. What a pleasant surprise! Enjoying the Photon one so far.

P.S. Awesome video too!