Conversion of properties from one use to another fucking sucks.
I have worked in many industrial buildings that were converted to offices, and none of them had much in the way of human considerations.
I’ve lived in office to residential conversions, and while habitable they had many caveats. From utilities literally carving out spaces in rooms, odd shaped rooms, pillars in the middle of spaces, hallways barely big enough for an adult, poor lighting and little to no accessibility. The contrast between living in a purpose built residential building is black and white.
Buildings are built for a purpose. Once they are no longer needed for that purpose, tear them down and replace them with what is needed.
Retrofits allow the landed gentry to continue making money on their assets with minimal additional investment, at the expense of those using those spaces (which is never the owners)
Who is this policy for? Other than maybe creating a path to kill off management roles in government without needing to pay redundancy. Or maybe it’s just the first step to wind back employment protections.
And what does this mean for existing employees, and termination procedures? What’s stopping an employer giving you a salary increase and firing you?
Weird. I’ve been thinking a lot about my aphantasia recently.
The closest I can describe what I imagined, was the feeling that those things happened.
For example. That vibe you get when you feel someone is just behind you. You can’t see them, but you know it. If I imagine someone behind me, I get the same uncomfortable feeling and an urge to look behind me.
New Zealand’s largest private health insurance provider (Southern Cross) is “run on not-for-profit principles”.
It’s not terrible, and seems to work. I guess the caveat is that their competition is a (mostly) functioning public healthcare system.