SUPPORTING LOCAL - WHY THIS MATTERS NOW MORE THAN EVER

Healing Spaces Project
1 day ago
2 min read

New Zealand, we need to talk.

I'm not interested in any economic doom conversation, because we are the economy and we have the ability to individually and collectively make choices that shape our country around us.

I am patriotic, I really believe in our country, we have everything we need.

Agriculture, meat, dairy, seafood, skilled workers, hard workers, ambition, fresh air and fresh water, not to mention we live in literal paradise.

Currently (and have been for a while) we are living in a globalist economy.

In the past a wealthy New Zealander would then hire local workers to run their business and the pay system would revolve back into the economy, but currently most of these big corporations are owned overseas, so between this and online shopping elsewhere, local spending exits the country and doesn't come back :(

Small business is disappearing.

How can we build empires ourselves without beginnings?

The answer in my view, takes a radical shift.

It takes personal choice.

The radical shift is conscious spending.

What do you want to see in the economic world around you and is your dollar voting for that?

For me, I want to see small business thrive, not just because I am one, but because it makes everything better, prettier, cultural, interesting. I believe everyone has a higher potential and a purpose but I also believe one of our purposes is to simply connect with each other and sometimes that is through creative expression, craft, vocal expression, writing. I want to create it yes, but I want to experience it too.

I understand not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur, some work to live and to me that is just as admirable. We need it. Large companies provide this and I am not opposed to that either. But perhaps going into your local store rather than ordering it online, means that local job sticks around.

It may cost more to buy local, sometimes, this is a whole other conversation too.

But what is the alternative cost?

honestly, where are we going?

As I said, I'm not interested in doom, we are the economy, we are the change, not government, not council, you

and me

and everyone who lives here and wants to stay and wants to see it thrive.

Your dollar is the vote, so lets invest in ourselves.

Have a fabulous day, designing your life x