In these enlightened times(NOT) a principle now well and truly buried under the glutinous crap of socialism making everybody (except the dear leaders, naturally) equally poor with the utter nonsense of DEI and all the other pulchritudinous excrement that drags society into the abyss of failure.

The trigger for this missive is a post at Farrar’s blog on a possibly the youngest person to rise to Billionaire at age 24 and one guess on the hiring policy at his successful enterprise “Scale”;

“Hiring on merit will be a permanent policy at Scale”

Imagine for one single moment what such a radical policy might do for say the Public service let alone the duplicitous bastards who have risen to prominence in too many arenas of commercial New Zealand.

A productivity blip of very noticeable proportions that would not be so clear a signal from the public service as their productivity is much deeper masked from analysis.

No more DEI, Ethnicity, one mandated cripple, utter nonsense involved in HR and employment decision making.

Some thirty years ago I was on a National Hereford Cattle Breeders tour in Gisborne and one segment involved a visit to a Valley NW of the city where following WW2 the Government settled Returned Servicemen on subdivided land I understand had been taken from tribal land to create some twenty six farms.

The former tribal owners descendants had set in motion the return of those farms to ownership of the Maungatu Incorporation and by the time of that visit to one of the constituent farms, a Hereford stud operation, the repurchase had been completed. Another unit in the valley was an Angus cattle stud and a further one a Romney sheep stud.

The whole set up was indeed impressive self reliance based efforts of dedicated Maori. I approached a Kamatua who was one of several accompanying the tour and asked if they were able to use the associated employment opportunity to accommodate youth of their Iwi. His blunt reply was somewhat gobsmacking when he in concise and unemotive language he stated there was only one criteria for such decisions by management at all levels, “We seek out and employ only the very best we can access”.

Of course it was to me just mildly confronting as the Waitangi Tribunal was in full cry righting perceived wrongs at any level and location and a recurring theme was overcoming clear social failures from the urbanising of Native descendants and removal of their Tribal affinity and attachment to their lands. Something that was not an issue with the pragmatic focussed older gentleman I encountered that day, I occasionally wonder who that man might support politically if he is still amongst us he did not align with the scribble faced minority heading a few native descendants to their own abyss as we speak.