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  "description": "10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You",
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  "textContent": "**This is edition 2026/033 of the _Ten@10_ newsletter.**\n\nHi all,\n\nThis is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.\n\nEnjoy!\n\n* * *\n\n## 1. The Radical Solution.\n\nChris Trotter\n\n  * 🔥 Radical energy is essential to prevent stagnation, and New Zealand was once famed as the “social laboratory of the world” for boldly embracing reform.\n  * 🕰️ The last major wave of reform — the 1980s–90s “quiet revolution” — is now decades old, yet today’s calls for change simply echo its logic.\n  * ⚠️ Economists and commentators warn of debt, ageing demographics, and fiscal crisis, insisting radical reform is urgently needed.\n  * 🔁 But the proposed “radical” fixes — spending cuts, deregulation, privatisation, user-pays — are merely an intensification of the status quo.\n  * 👵 Critics target New Zealand Superannuation as unsustainable, proposing higher eligibility ages, reduced payments, and means testing.\n  * 📊 Demographically, the Baby Boomer bulge will pass; once the “pig in the python” moves through, the 65+ population will eventually decline.\n  * 🎯 Ironically, harsher super policies would hurt Generation X and younger cohorts more than Boomers, turning age-based resentment inward.\n  * 💔 Elderly poverty carries moral weight, which is why welfare states were built to protect older citizens from destitution.\n  * 📉 By many measures — wages, home ownership, healthcare access, education standards, infrastructure, and talent retention — New Zealanders in 2026 are worse off than in 1986.\n  * 🏛️ The true radicalism of the 1980s–90s lay in dismantling and weakening the New Zealand state, transferring power and assets into private hands.\n  * 🧠 New Zealanders were persuaded that shrinking the state was the only path to prosperity, marginalising belief in public solutions.\n  * 🌱 The essay argues that only a revitalised, assertive state — the force that originally built modern New Zealand — can restore housing, health, education, infrastructure, and social cohesion.\n\n\n\nRead More\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/033",
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