Native-born New Zealanders are leaving in record numbers, while birth rates fall. The crisis machine doesn’t treat this as a warning — it’s by design. A shrinking local population creates labour shortages, which are then used as excuses to import “quick fixes” rather than build long-term stability.
Instead of making it easier for families to thrive — through housing security, fair wages, and affordable childcare — policy settings often push in the opposite direction. Rising living costs, unstable work, and unaffordable homes drive people out. Young people see no future here, and communities hollow out.
This is why you will never get to live out your life surrounded by your children and their children. The social contract that once bound generations together is quietly dismantled, replaced with a treadmill of short-term fixes that never touch the root of the problem.
Depopulation is then spun as inevitable, even natural. Yet behind it is deliberate neglect — by design, a slow starvation of the very conditions that would make staying viable.
The machine profits twice: once by saving on social investment, and again by exploiting the desperation that follows. A country that can’t hold its people becomes a country easier to sell, piece by piece.
The Crisis Machine: It’s by design.