> you could argue e.g. New Zealand is setting the standard pretty high nowadays. Only until you look closely. NZ has very high levels of inequality (children

> you could argue e.g. New Zealand is setting the standard pretty high nowadays. Only until you look closely. NZ has very high levels of inequality (children living below the poverty line, and Maori and Polynesian people are incarcerated more, receive less medical care, and have poorer health and shorter lives than the colonisers and recent immigrants. More qualitatively they are also systematically discriminated against both by government institutions and by employers. Me, I'm a child of Dutch immigrants in the 1950s, so I just see this among friends, it doesn't affect me personally. It's sad if NZ is the gold standard.