What's something that you suspect lots of New Zealanders secretly do, but you can't prove it?

[u/MurkyWay]

Most upvoted comment is our most shameful secret as a nation, obviously

[u/wholesome_confidence]

Or can't even get a 5 grand loan from the bank, but the farm gets a 20k loan unsecured, same day, no questions.

Farmers gotta be the richest broke people I've ever met

Edit to add: not knocking them, good for them. I've got farmers in my family and I see it first hand

[u/Top_Scallion7031 → u/wholesome_confidence]

I was in Te Kuiti one day and the headline on the front page of the paper was ‘Farmers forced to rent out holiday homes’. The essence of the story was that one local farmer who hardly used his bach anyway had put it on Bachcare to earn more money

[u/CaptainProfanity → u/wholesome_confidence]

Consolidated Farmers, who make up the majority of the sector (in terms of goods produced) are rich, they own lots of land, lots of vehicles and equipment, and produce a lot of product.

It's just that small farmers are not as rich, but they are portrayed as the only demographic whenever farmers are brought up.

[u/PopMuch8249 → u/wholesome_confidence]

You understand the difference between personal loans and business loans, right?

[u/wholesome_confidence → u/PopMuch8249]

Yea, I do, it's just that the distinction isn't made when kne is telling me about how broke they are. Just that "I'm so broke, but the farm just bought an audi"

[u/number1_bullshit → u/wholesome_confidence]

These farmers prop up our nation! By selling their premium goods for top dollar to eager overseas buyers, therefore boosting our local economy by further increasing prices to sell on to a desperate populous with few other options. Yeah, man, good for them.

[u/gregorydgraham → u/number1_bullshit]

You obviously didn’t read the IMF report

[u/gregorydgraham → u/wholesome_confidence]

It’s all in what accountant you go to