Ah yes. Presumably there would be records of exports and records of sales to local retailers (as well as records to e.g. places that can foods), there must currently be enough information recorded to know where food ends up. So probably isn’t that much overhead to have this process.
Makes sense.
Since NZ produces way more food than we consume, how would that work in practice? Are there models for this in other countries we could follow?
When you talk about a targeted subsidy, the farmers would receive this regardless of if their product is sold in NZ or overseas? Or would there be some apportionment of subsidy based on how much is sold locally?
I have mixed emotions over all this.
To start, I agree, flat taxes are regressive and a bad way to tax people.
However, NZ gets a lot of tourists and GST is an effective way to collect money from them to fund the things they use. You could say just tax them directly, but I think a $1000 entry fee would put off many tourists that otherwise would come here and happily pay that much GST in their spending.
We also have no true capital gains tax. Without this, GST is practically the only way we get tax from the ultra wealthy, right?
So instead we could leave GST alone and provide subsidies to make fresh food cheaper, but that seems to also be making the system more complex by balancing tax collection against subsidies for the same thing, and also creating a whole chain of questions about where the subsidies go. Do we give them to potato farmers that then get pressured for cheaper prices from the duopoly, who don’t pass along the full discount and end up subsidising their profits? (This will likely happen with removing GST too, but we won’t have to work out which farmers get subsidies and which don’t). If we subsidise farmers then we also subsidise overseas consumers that they sell to.
So do we just hand cash to supermarkets to make certain products cheaper? This seems more complex than just removing GST.
I have no view on what’s the right thing here because it seems complex and like there might not be a right answer. But I am curious how subsidies would work in practice.
I searched up her name, and found it listed on the Free Speech Union website saying they helped her lodge the suit. That explains some things.
https://www.fsu.nz/blog/who-else-would-stand-up-for-the-silenced
Yeah except for the people around you trying to work as you jibber jabber 😆
This will depend on your work. All my work is on the computer. Showing someone something is as easy as sharing my screen (and this might even be better, as I can draw on it).
And I don’t agree online meetings are useless. All of my team work from home most of the time, and we work out how to make that work.
Having half the group in the office and half joining remotely I think is the worst of both worlds.
Ending Canvas 2025 post here: https://toast.ooo/post/8424341
Timelapse here: https://sc07.tv/w/vqMefweU6w6LMZenbJHWoV
A map of just the Lemmy.nz users and the pixels we placed (unfortunately that leaves off a few many people here):
Sorry I didn’t see all your hard work before @[email protected] when I was tagging the others!
Might be worth having a look at this list of banking app compatibility: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/
Oh, everyone’s talking about drama/fun with Hungary that I missed. Writeup copied from redjard in the canvas general matrix room:
(edited out as it’s now posted here)
Really cool. There are more images in this previous article, and in the report (pdf warning).
In your article they talk about it being a ‘waka tuitui’ - an old term for planked waka that had been stitched or lashed together.
Any attempts to find out more about this just lead back to other articles about this find. I’d love to see even a picture of what a similar craft looked like.
Awesome job everyone!
If anyone wants to see it IRL it’s here: https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=211&y=347&zoom=10
Good efforts from @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], and I’m sure others (it’s a bit hard to tell except randomly pulling up the details to see who placed it (long press on mobile, shift+click on PC).
Done, just like that!
Any other ideas or do you know of other projects wanting a hand? The canvas is looking really good!
Let’s do it!
Do these look like gumboots?
Perhaps here, at 198, 356?
Maybe! If we have a template. Something like the yellow boots here but black? Maybe with a red band?
I’m heading to bed now, but it’s looking good!
Canvas ends 4pm tomorrow. Perhaps some touch ups to do tomorrow depending on what happens overnight.
Tomorrow, if it’s still intact, I’ll probably try to fill in some more background around this area of the canvas with some colour or spread the blue, to try to make it look less empty in the gaps between different projects. If anyone sees projects worth contributing to I’m available for hire (as much as I can be on a work day, anyway).
Oh sorry didn’t see the gumboot suggestion. Think we can still fit that in somewhere?
I spent ages buying games on steam with Bitcoin years ago. They dropped it when transaction fees got bigger than the game cost (I don’t think they ever supported crypto other than Bitcoin, and that was through a specific payment processor that took the Bitcoin and gave Valve real money).