>This is a shame, my partner and I have been spending the last couple months seriously considering new Zealand as a new home, after we tire of SF, specifically because we felt that legally it was going down a better path than the USA.
What made you think this? Have you been keeping an eye on the news regarding NZ?
For example, they allowed American billionaire Peter Thiel to obtain citizenship despite not meeting the residency requirements:
And in doing so created a huge push by the New Zealand immigration peeps to incentivize other tech workers to come in. They even put up stalls at tech conferences, which was where this idea came from at all for us. Way they told us is there's even specialized visas.
The fact that billionaires do as they please is a global fact I have long gotten used to.
Vaguely recalling an article about how he created a push in new Zealand to bring in more techn workers, leveraging his wealth to pressure/incentivize the government, etc.
Regardless, to your original point - a billionaire doing as he pleases does not affect my perception of a country.
>Vaguely recalling an article about how he created a push in new Zealand to bring in more techn workers
Cool, well I've provided a source earlier showing it leaked due to investigative journalism.
>to your original point - a billionaire doing as he pleases does not affect my perception of a country.
You are free to perceive things however you want, but you may find it beneficial when interacting with others to ground your perceptions in facts and logic, not feelings.
? I fail to see the relationship between a billionaire getting away with something, and my sense of rule of law. It simply means new Zealand has equal rule of law power to every other first world country...
> I fail to see the relationship between a billionaire getting away with something, and my sense of rule of law. It simply means new Zealand has equal rule of law power to every other first world country
Uh, no. Other 1st world countries enforce their laws. For example, Iceland locked up bankers who broke financial laws leading to a crisis:
What made you think this? Have you been keeping an eye on the news regarding NZ?
For example, they allowed American billionaire Peter Thiel to obtain citizenship despite not meeting the residency requirements:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&...
Unsurprisingly, countries where laws can be bent or broken by the rich tend to not respect individual rights.