Gorgritch_umie_killa
@Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone
- Comment on Post Office Square, Brisbane 11 hours ago:
Looks lovely, but where is everyone? Is it well used by people?
- Comment on More unions down tools in Labor’s Victorian election campaign as ‘trust broken’ 3 days ago:
Please keep it civil and refrain from trolling.
- Comment on Community icon for /c/support4life - Life Support 3 days ago:
Ok cool, thank you. The reason I ask is I’m, slowly, pulling together that website for that association idea I told you about a couple months ago. I had this idea to have little drawn stick men charcters positioned in different random spots throughout the brochure website. But i’s not sure what to use to remove the unnecessary background of the paper.
- Comment on Community icon for /c/support4life - Life Support 3 days ago:
Looks really nice. How do you do that?
- Comment on Community icon for /c/support4life - Life Support 4 days ago:
The heart and two people one is nice
- Comment on Coalition says cuts to climate, housing and more would save $31b 1 week ago:
Unfortunately we can’t allow house prices to deflate too much, the nation’s private wealth and private debt are too closely tied to housing. The more we let house prices fall, the less spending capacity mortgage holders have; the harder it is for owners to satisfy the debts already borrowed.
This is because when housing deflates a certain percentage of borrowers, usually relatively new borrowers who have borrowed ‘at the top of the market’ find they are paying off a debt that is larger than the current sales value of the asset they’re laying off.
In itself this isn’t too bad, but it increases the risk of mortgage default. Housing deflation often goes along with a wider economic downturn. If mortgage holders no longer have a job things get serious with the house they’re trying to pay off quickly. It is also a psychologically painful position for mortgage holders to be in, and decreases their confidence in the economy, do that at a mass scale and we can get ouslrselves the economic downturn that actually loses jobs. Humans run on sentiment, their feelings about something.
A market is all about sentiment. If we cause a situation where house prices are seen to be too expensive, therefore must fall, then we’ve created the pin for the housing bubble and just used it. Having all the effects I’ve explained and others.
I have no doubt that housing is actually a bubble, but we can deflate the bubble by carefully lowering prices and increasing wages to meet at a more sustainable position in a decade or two, or we can pop the bubble now and scar the economic lives of two generations of Australians who had to, and were allowed to by government and banks, borrow far in excess of what their wages should have ever allowed.
I’m a millenial, so far my generation has done nothing of note, I see a reason for this, the economic jack boot of the high cost (monetary and non-monetary) of participation in Australian life that previous generations have built along the way for themselves has suppressed the potential and dynamism of every generation from the millenials on.
I see few avenues for younger Australians to build anything of note on their own without institutional help. This is a problem because its like adverts on lemmy it would alter the purpose of the network. A young person opening a café on their own, compared with investor assistance would be two different shops.
If we were to deflate the housing bubble by quickly reducing house prices this would destroy the financial wealth millenials, and increasing amounts of younger, have been able to gain. Further decreasing the likelihood of that generation/s doing anything of note, bar surviving.
So housing comes down to agency of individuals to act without domination, by government or private interests, in a liberal democracy. Howard, et al, increased the domination of younger generations by government and private interests. This has killed the dynamism across multiple generations that makes a liberal democracy a more viable form of national organisation than many others. And housing is the emblematic example of this problem we’ve caused ourselves.
- Comment on Coalition says cuts to climate, housing and more would save $31b 1 week ago:
Abandoning Labor’s first homebuyer scheme Help to Buy, its social housing fund, its tax incentives for build-to-rent developers and its payments to states that meet housing supply targets would save a combined $4.7 billion.
Build-to-rent developers is corporates getting into the rental game isn’t it? I know that people say mum and dad investors are disorganised and shabby, but asking an entity you have no bargaining power against, and the government is at risk of lobby pressure from is not the answer. So, i actually think getting rid of those subsidies might be good for more reasons than a budget saving.
Labor has likely made a foolish mistake in exposing under-represented and low leverage (in power terms), renters to the uncompromising domination of a rental-corp.
The first homebuyer scheme is harder, but if prices are able to be wound back, and lower wages able to increase I see good reason for first homebuyers grants to be removed at appropriate stages. When the market reflects the conditions before they were introduced.
Reducing this support will likely deflate house prices a little, so the timing of changes like this would need to be considered carefully, since we have so much of our national wealth tied to our bloody houses.
I don’t trust that the Liberals have the finesse to pull that off. Instead they’ll set a timeline, pretend its the right time, and pull the cord as early as they can. Probably smoke a cigar on the patio after screwing over young Australia yet again.
Liberals can sit on it and rotate its their messiah’s (ol’big brows Howard’s) fault social housing is now absolutely necessary.
Payments to States I have no idea whether its a good policy or not. Seems effective. States always want cash, and I’ve seen the effects in my own area.
I don’t know whether its good or not though. Its very top-down, and right up in communities backyards. I’m worried Labor is ruffling too many feathers across too broad a swathe of communities with this one. But I have no more than anecdotal evidence to back that idea up. So I don’t know, maybe Liberals might make hay with this cut.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌊 Monday 26 October 2026 1 week ago:
This is a comment section raid!
Nabbed the first comment of today’s thread! woop! woop!
- Comment on The future of aussie.zone... 1 week ago:
Dammit! 😆
- Comment on The future of aussie.zone... 1 week ago:
Yeah, but i’ve still got you pipped on that leaderboard 😋
- Comment on The future of aussie.zone... 2 weeks ago:
Oh right! Yeah, that would make sense. Although i don’t remember that having a name.
- Comment on The future of aussie.zone... 2 weeks ago:
The Molly project?
Do you mean this: mollyproject.org
- Comment on The future of aussie.zone... 2 weeks ago:
Lodion, first, thank you. You’ve shown me a genuinely far healthier side of the internet. A side I never knew existed up until just over three years ago. Thanks to you setting up this instance, I’ve learned a lot more than I ever thought I would about the web and social media.
Secondly, you’ve created a community here, i’ve always thought it’d be good to see you engage more socially, but understood you were very engaged in different ways and perhaps not interested in that side of things anyway, fair enough. But, for my piece at least, I hope you stick around and enjoy more of the social aspect of this community you’ve been so instrumental in creating. :)
Nath, I hope the transition goes smoothly. I always understood funding was a quiet issue in the background, and I will be there to help with costs. Lets make the funding of this place a sustainable aspect that you don’t have to worry about.
Any other help I can jump in to aupport you with, you know where to find me. :)
- Comment on The future of aussie.zone... 2 weeks ago:
@shlee@aus.social has been experimenting with a funding union, we could hook into that as the primary funding source. I’m not sure how developed it is.
Shlee seems to have some experience with community funding, the link below is from a week ago at the GenerOZity raffle at PAXAUS 26.
Posters Union is the funding organisation shlee has been setting up to help cover server costs.
We could talk more to shlee about the concept and join in, or use the example as inspiration.
- Comment on The future of aussie.zone... 2 weeks ago:
I’ve used this a couple times seems a legit method.
Kofi has worked well for me as well.
- Comment on Australia's nuclear agency targeted with ads linked to spyware that infect devices without a click 2 weeks ago:
This is why we need to actively support independent media in Australia.
I’ll be interested to see if Michael West, Independent Australia, Anthony Lowenstein, Lamestream, Dropsite, Ette, Pearls and Irritations go on this pretty hard. Their, et al, journalism is having a positive effect holding mainstream media to account.
- Comment on ‘Don’t burn your bridges’: Shoebridge warns Ukrainian community over military aid 2 weeks ago:
Man, i have such a more positive spin on this, like they’ve taken over national politics for a good two weeks. They’ve won the week twice in a row. Not only that, but they’ve blocked the media from bollocking on about One Nation as much as they’ve been. Sure, the Jordan steel-john business is serious, but the Greens can come out of this moment fine, and maybe stronger if they deal with it in a way that is noticeably better than other parties have.
I think having the disagreements has been a good thing for the Greens and the public to see the Greens functioning in a more ‘human’ way.
- Comment on Greens senator takes leave amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm. Rumour mill was strong with this one.
- Comment on Flying High Dubai. MWM responds to ABC Media Watch 4 weeks ago:
I’ve no idea. Its unfortunately believable that the Israelis would conduct themselves in this way. But I don’t know
I posted it because Michael West torches the ABC in his response, which I think is warranted, given their prevarication and failure to name crimes.
Although I think calling out unsubstantiated claims hurts Michael West’s reputation as an investigative journalist. I hope he made those comments at least from his personal account.
- Comment on Max Chandler-Mather pitches Mamdani-style $25bn plan to nationalise 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets 4 weeks ago:
Below is the actual report, its eight pages, and really undercooked. Its more like a university report than any kind of plan.
At best, and I mean at absolute best, this is a conversation starter, not a plan. My worry is they haven’t gone into enough depth for such a big policy that the ‘serious’ stakeholders in this area will laugh it off and easily dismiss it with industry based arguments those familiar with the industry may know.
My critiscism.
In its current form a plan like this will fail, and the cost will be hung over the neck of a Greens led government going forward.
- 5 years to build out a system of ~600 new supermarkets would be a herculean and unnecessary effort. I don’t believe it would be done in anywhere near that short a time period, which would blow the report’s revenue assumptions.
This is a massively expensive investment in new and seized fixed capital with large ongoing maintenance costs that at best adds a ‘slow lane’ to the Australian food network’s ‘food delivery highway’. There are smarter ways to achieve the results wanted without causing supplier induced demand.
For those who are interested, supplier induced demand.
It will lead to farmers over producing, or higher levels of imports, to satisfy the demands for vegetables from established grocers and the added Fair Go supermarket chain. We’ve seen this with Aldi’s introduction to the Australian grocery chain landscape.
It will be required for all supermarkets to remain at a decent level of stock, while that level may be lower than before. And there is always a level of wastage at store level, that level of wastage will be increased by these added supermarkets.
The Fair Go chains will be used by farmers as a dumping ground for their poor quality produce, which is great for them, but increases the cost in the cost/profit ratio to those Fair Go stores. This would force the government run stores to cutback in increased areas lessening the accessibility of those stores in incremental but important ways. This leads to a medium term negative feedback spiral, having a noticeable effect on the customers’ engagement with that store. Old, poorly looked after IGA’s are an example of this, people won’t shop there due to the ‘ick’ factor. The only salvage would be they cheaper, but will yhey be cheap enough for the perceived quality? Spudshed may be a positive indicator here, but they have a measure of vertical control over their fresh food. I think this problem will lead to an unexpected decrease in this plans expected revenues due to reinvestment in the stores becoming more diffficult as time goes on.
The last two paragraphs are about ongoing burdens that could only be shaken off by becoming more competitive, but that would mean sacrificing profitability (likely no longer pay for themselves with their own revenues) to maintain the 25% price discount. There are existing examples in each paragraph that demonstrate the resulting problems the Fair Go stores would create and face.
What we’re talking about is a market design problem. First thing I think we should do as a nation is call Alvin Roth for help. ;)
But now for a few of my suggestions,
##Food Vouchers##. Its boring, but they can work. The aim is actually to increase access to fresh, healthy food, not to be a competitor to ColesWorth. The delivery system is already established, but the access to that is quarantined by the width of your wallet. Food vouchers could be triggered automatically by the ATO by flagging a combination of things like location, income, number of dependents, etc, in the yearly lodgements.
Food Vouchers could appear as a direct transfer payment at regular intervals (weekly, monthly) across the course of the financial year based on the expected cost difference that tax payer, in their situation, would be paying for the average basket of fresh healthy produce.
The above design is fairly liberal and places faith in the recipients to spend the money in the intended way. Other methods such as welfare cards that can only be used at certain kinds of stores have been trialled in indigenous communities that have had alcohol abuse issues, those may be another, more conservative, road to go down. And I’m sure theres other less onerous safeguards and nudges for wise spending that could be employed.
This would largely solve the problem for areas with existing ease of physical access to fresh, healthy food. But there are lots of communities without fair access to cheap, fresh, healthy food.
##Fair Go Shelves## these hard to reach areas are low access because Australia’s food delivery system isn’t built for them. But we don’t need to reinvent the wheel by establishing a whole new system of distribution and supermaket centres. The distribution centres are there, the shops are there, its the incentive to extend the system to get the fresh, healthy food to those shelves that isn’t.
Fair Go Shelves could be the PBS for our food, basically a subsidy scheme for putting that extra pallet of fresh food on the truck or plane to the hard to reach areas and then selling them at metro prices.
A mix of these two ideas could likely have better results than ~600 new stores could, it is also a kore dynamic solution that lends itself to alterations more easily.
However, it is also more easy to phase down, or completely remove were a hostile government to be elected. The only solution I could offer there are the political costs detering hostile governments from that course of action, meaning it would need to be a policy thats broadly popular, and well liked in the electorate.
So i’ll try to conclude,
I’ve spent a couple hours on my sofa finding three points of failure in the Fair Go Supermarkets Plan. I’m sure, unfortunately, there are many more that others may highlight.
- Adds an unnecessary and wasteful initial budgetary outlay for a ‘slow lane’ to the Australian food delivery system highway.
- Supplier induced Demand. Farmers and importers will be incentivised to deliver more produce to market at a more varied quality than before due to the price floor. 25% lower than ColesWorth. Increasing operational costs.
- ‘Ick’ factor, due to cost cutting will decrease revenue. Rich and poor alike want to shop in a nice place where they have ease of access to the food ranges they want.
On the other-hand, if the Fair Go Supermarkets plan is simply meant as a conversation starter about our supermarket and food delivery system. Then the Green Institute has been wildly successful with me, as evidenced by this long commentary on their plan.
Then I’ve identified the crux of the solution that the Fair Go Plan failed to identify,
##Its a Market Design problem##
I’ve had a quick go at some alternative suggestions,
- Automatic Food Vouchers based off combination of the annual tax lodgement details.
- Fair Go Shelves, a PBS for Outback greens… and other fresh foods. (The ‘Green’ marketing writes itself for this one).
Finally, now we know the problem, (market design) seriously we should contact the professionals. Market design is an undervalued part of the solution to so many of our problems. Whether its in democratic delivery, food delivery, or money markets, most of the problems we could largely solve by redesigning and maintaining the markets delivering these inputs to our complex liberal democracy.
- Comment on Flying High Dubai. MWM responds to ABC Media Watch 4 weeks ago:
The Media Watch piece in question,
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- Comment on earthquake 4 weeks ago:
The mAiNstReAm media claims its an earthquake.
Real patriotic Australia sees through the lies and deceits. Victoria just collectively farted from too many beans!
I’m a Vicfart truther.
- Comment on G7 countries to release 100 million barrels of diesel and oil to curb fuel prices 4 weeks ago:
Its a ridiculous situation the US has put the world in. Every time the US does something like this, the Europeans probably have to cop a lot of it and play nice for now. But should definitely take it as further motivation to remove themselves from the US chokeholds they’ve allowed.
Charles De’Gaul might’ve been a cunt in many ways, but he understood the value of his country’s freedom.
- Comment on New Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance 4 weeks ago:
They would have such a strong platform if they understood our own implications for national security and sovereignty the breach of national borders the invasion of Ukraine has for us.
It tells me these people don’t understand that national borders and world peace will take soft and hard power to maintain and vacating the military field only leaves others to fight in our place. If we want to live in a world that has some kind of fairness of rule, instead of might makes right, then we need to stand shoulder to shoulder with others who wish for a world luke that.
Mark my words, you ignore fascists and dictators overseas, they’ll be our on our shores in no time. Ulraine is about our security and sovereignty, not theirs.
- Comment on Curtin’s Cast Episode 60 - 10 June 2026 - Ed Coper – Angertainment: How Social Media Outrage Ruined Everything - Spotify 4 weeks ago:
Okay, nevermind found the article. After I posted this, I remembered we have these funny things called search engines… because I’m an idiot.
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- Comment on Cuts, punishment powers and a notable exception: Key changes in Labor's migration shake-up 1 month ago:
What absolute flogs. Fucking kids gloves with the Party who has caused the migration culture war issue, and lock and stock and two smoking barrels for the Party reacting to the clear electoral signals a massive portion of the electorate are now indicating they want.
Instead of attacking Labor why haven’t the NFF come together with the Universities and other migrant reliant employers and stamped the positive case for migration against the revanchivist culture vultures if they’ve been such great fans of migrant labour all this time.
…oh no, I forgot its only the migrants the regions don’t like, that have to go. Typical self obsessed industry group, undermining their own prosperity with their narrow bloody-mindedness.
God forbid anything ever negatively effect the precious farmers of this country, haven’t you heard? They’ve already had a bloody gut full /s
Theres going to be a leopards eat faces moment when university fees have rocketed up for their kids who often go to those city universities subsidised by all those International students.
Its going to slap even harder when the government can’t send as much aid in the inevitable floods or fires because the budget has had an international student sized hole blown in our exports.
But what do I know, the geniuses at Murdoch media and One Nation have a culture war to prosecute, and some brown people to shit on to satiate angry bastards five minutes of rage each night.
One Nation is most popular in the regions, Murdoch media is one of two free to air channels, and highly popular in the regions. This is a problem of regional Australia not understanding their gripes have consequences that they have to bear.
If NFF wants this changed, attack the people who have pushed this into a full blown electoral crisis, not the flat-footed Party with tweety birds flapping above their heads.
- Comment on 9/11 25th Anniversary: Rousing the sleeping dragon 1 month ago:
Fridge through the sky… 😆