Letter
John Tons, it's not 'problems' that are wicked
Like “free markets” and “artificial intelligence”, problems themselves aren’t living human beings, they can’t be “wicked”. That would be ministers and mandarins.
Dr Kennedy got the top PM&C job by dueting with Dr Chalmers. Singing the Langton Crescent ballad of “net zero, budget repair, inflation fighting, million jobs, rising wages”, while delivering their million-plus migrants, carefree expansion in non-market jobs, and declining living standards for punters.
A South Seas island with stable government, endless energy resources, and easily managed borders, ought to have low power prices, reasonably affordable housing, and negligible population-pressures. It amuses the elite to inflict the opposite.
— Stephen Saunders from O'Connor