We are no longer the 1960's. So for those people who do not have job security in the gig economy or for those who need to travel for work or change jobs and locations frequently for career progression, home ownership may not be possible or suitable or desirable. If you can withdraw money to get a house deposit, why shouldn't they be able to withdraw their kiwisaver money early to get money for a tenancy bond, to buy investments or a business just as those who want to buy a home can?
Kiwisaver was for retirement savings, not rainy day savings. If it becomes rainy day savings employers won’t want to continue contributing to it, nor would the government.
Very unfair to try and change the rules like that to a long term commitment like Kiwisaver, once people have committed to it.
Combative language is typical of bullies. Trump uses it all the time. It is generally used to deflect from the lack of actual message.
Same as the repitition - working on the basis that if you say it often enough it will become a truth and stick. Trump uses that all the time also.
What all bullies have in common is the use of power to satisfy one’s own psychological shortcomings. Each time a bully moves against someone weaker, they feel better about themselves for an instant. But because that feeling doesn’t last, they do it again and again. Sometimes the bully appears to lack insight into their own behavior (unwitting bully), but more often the bully does know yet elects to ignore the moral and ethical considerations by which the majority of people are bound. The rules don’t apply to them. Or they have projected so much self-hatred on the other that they truly believe that those they are bullying deserve exactly what they are getting. https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/adult-bullies/
Originally Posted by artemis
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