Sunday, November 27, 2005

Low-Life Scum

Martin Dunn, who works selling apartments, was very upset that people are building cheap apartment blocks, because they might bring poor people into Auckland city:

"They'll be on the dole" he said "They'll be people who should live in Otahuhu and never be allowed out of Otahuhu."
and
"The city has been expensive. We have been lucky because the tenancy market has been reasonably sophisticated," he said.

"I don't want to have a whole lot of apartments with bedrooms that you can hardly get a bed into. Who is going to be living in them? It is going to bring a subculture into the city and I am certainly not welcoming that. I resent it.

"If we have a whole lot of sickness beneficiaries and dole bludgers in the city, that is definitely going to change the culture of the CBD."
I agree with him that they shouldn't build tiny shitty apartments, but that's because I don't believe anyone should live in shitty tiny apartments.

I have a longstanding fantasty of leaving a bunch of rich capitalists on a desert island. We could see how much they think their success is a result of their own virtue when there's no-one to exploit but each other.

1 comment:

  1. "I agree with him that they shouldn't build tiny shitty apartments, but that's because I don't believe anyone should live in shitty tiny apartments."
    LOL! It's a simple concept, but still too deep for Mr Dunn.

    When I left home, you lived in the central city because that's where cheap, run-down accommodation was, and where all the subcultures were. Living in the suburbs would have been way too expensive and lacking in subcultures. Mr Dunn would like a central city without subcultures - presumably he also has a Stepford Wife at home. If he and his kind ever do get society running the way they want it, suicide will probably be preferable to finding out if it really is possible to die of boredom.

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