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Luke Kemeys

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333 total appearances

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Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

What do they do with it?

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

You think about getting that iPad, Luke.

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

If you look at a lot of the education stats as well, going forward in terms of attendance, how we stack up to other OECD countries in terms of math and English and those sort of things, the numbers aren't good either.

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

So you go, well, right now we've got a problem.

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

And you look at, okay, well, where are 17-year-olds now?

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

And fast forward a decade, it doesn't look like those numbers are going in the right direction either.

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

Yeah, I do think as well, like,

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

Cooper who's three and a half, Bowden who's three months, your baby who's only a couple of months old as well.

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

What's their first job going to look like?

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

Are they going to have a job?

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

And then whatever...

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

Crazy, like when I say Cooper's going to be five next year, like when he goes to school, what are they going to teach him and how relevant is it going to be to the world that he's going to go into?

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

I do want to move into how do we fix this and not just be like everything's shit and we're screwed.

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

I do have one more question though on the everything's shit and we're screwed kind of mentality, which is the tall poppy syndrome, which I think is –

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

I think has a huge piece when we're talking about like I go to the bar and I talk about what I'm doing and then the whole conversation shuts down compared to other parts of the world, especially the US where it's like, yeah, the American dream and like you go for it and you go get everything you can get opposed to like everybody tends to talk themselves down.

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

How big of an issue is tall poppy syndrome?

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

But if I hadn't done that.

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

Show me a check for $75,000 last month.

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

I can't quit my job.

Cheques and Balances
Why New Zealand’s Economy Is Falling Behind (And How to Fix It) Ft. Luke Kemeys & Simon Rolland | Episode 475

Come work for you right now.