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[Bjauck]

Suggest take Oxfam reports with a big spoon of salt. They have an agenda. They, and many journalists that create the headlines, are regularly smacked by some who compare the base data Oxfam use (from the Credit Suisse highly regarded global wealth report) with the Oxfam conclusions. And the headlines.

Credit Suisse 2018 reports show that New Zealand’s wealth inequality declined from the previous year’s 72.3 Gini points to 70.8 Gini points. Don't see that in the headlines, probably not reported at all here.

Kool-Aid.

And even if the 28% is correct, Oxfam includes NZ billionaires from the Forbes annual list. Because it supports their agenda and keeps the donations rolling in.

Sure they have an agenda. Who doesn’t? Using the same facts and information, different people offer different conclusions. So we need to look at vested interests, what has been ignored and and who pays those that offer different conclusions.

One Oxfam agendum is to strive for a fairer allocation of resources. I wonder how NZ is faring in 2020.
The world is full of vested interests and Government policy is usually the result of the most powerful and influential vested interests. Suggest we should critique those who rubbish Oxfam too.

Oxfam answers some questions:
https://www.oxfam.org.nz/news-media/...uality-report/