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Why Socialism Suddenly Sounds Attractive (A Property Developer's Honest Take)
13 September 2026

Why Socialism Suddenly Sounds Attractive (A Property Developer's Honest Take)

The John Kenel Show

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More young New Zealanders are looking at the housing market and deciding the system's rigged. In plenty of ways, they're right. I've been building houses for over 20 years and I've benefited from the way things are, so I'm not here to tell anyone they're wrong to be angry.

The question is whether the fix being offered actually fixes it, or makes the same system bigger. In this episode: why the anger is rational, what actually failed (and why "free market" is the wrong name for it), who a bigger state actually suits, the Vienna question, the developer question, the tax question, and one test you can run on any policy before you buy it.


 


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