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Budgets are big events, they dominate the media and public discussion for days. People pour over calculators and ask themselves what’s in it for me?
What if we stepped back and asked what’s in it for a child born today, someone who will attend high school in 2040 on the 200th anniversary of Te Tiriti o Waitangi? What if we took an intergenerational lens and applied that to the choices made in the 2024 Budget?
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Grand challenges? We’ve got a few! In a recent talk at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University, I posed the question: 'what connects the seemingly disparate challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, inadequate housing, kai insecurity, and emerging technologies?'
One answer, of course, is that they’re symptoms of how we’ve chosen to design our economic system. Our real grand challenge, therefore, is building a good economy. One where the rules and incentives ensure the flourishing of all life.
