He said the party was "well beyond the stage" of wanting that. He was asked if the government party’s policy was still towards the equalization of incomes. Instead of providing incentives for ability and application, this country has so leveled real earnings that it is more difficult to counter the view that it is comfortable to forget ambition and settle into a menial job for which the rewards are reasonably satisfactory.Īt a recent meeting at New Plymouth, the Minister of Finance made some interesting admissions. New Zealand, on the other hand, has come dangerously near to discouraging the use of brains. In this way, the Communists encourage ability and application. Russian scientists are paid enormously more than laborers. In the Soviet army, the pay scales vary vastly between privates and generals, the disparity being much greater than in the western forces. It is very questionable whether this should be a matter of national pride.Ĭomplete equality should be the objective in the communist countries, but they are nowhere near as close to achieving it as is New Zealand. The process of equalizing incomes irrespective of the capacity or will to work has probably gone further in New Zealand than anywhere else in the world. The following items, as instructive for Americans as for New Zealanders, are from the April 1960 issue of Liberator, the official journal of The Constitutional Society for the Promotion of Economic Freedom and Justice in New Zealand, Inc.
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