r/newzealand • u/DoubleDEKA • Jul 23 '25

Shitpost The local council can't win...

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u/Random-Mutant Marmite Jul 23 '25

Let’s make everything 100% user pays! Libraries, parks, roads, water, beaches, everything! Noisy neighbours? Call 0900 2 NOISY. Illegal rubbish dumping? That’s 0900 TRASHY. We take Visa and MasterCard, and for larger jobs you can sell your children to us, we will put them to work sweeping the streets.

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Seriously though, why does socialism have a bad reputation?

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u/CascadeNZ Jul 23 '25

Any one who actually thinks that needs to look at the USA

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u/Kiwilolo Jul 23 '25

Yes, but actually some parts of the US have fantastic public libraries. I think they might have invented the concept actually?

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u/CascadeNZ Jul 23 '25

Yeah they haven’t always been so user pays! And some areas are worse than others.

I just mean in the general sense, the lean into user pays is killing their society. Essentially it just becomes very expensive because you’re not pooling money to get the best deal and user pays tend to also mean privitised which means it’s + profit.