>>510780676 (OP)I'm a New Zealander. Here are some reasons why we will not be a superpower in no particular order.
- Despite our large size there is very little arable land. We do have a great deal of pastoral land, but very little arable land and what we do have we are losing as it has next to no protection from urban sprawl and development because we have a very short sighted government.
- We have had the same irrational mass immigration policy as the rest of the western world. Now a large proportion of our population is foreign born. Contributing to the competency crisis that we as a the rest of the west is suffering from and a lack of social cohesion. This policy is supported by both our major parties.
-We have very short sighted government focussed only on the short term. Both major parties lack competence and the minor parties they must be in coalition with to be in power are by and large insane or completely idiotic. This has led to many problems. The short term focus means our government focuses on short term gdp growth at the expense of our future. Hence why have mass migration pushing house prices up. The gdp goes up but we have all the attendant problems of mass migration and high house prices. Our productivity growth has been sluggish to nonexistent for many years now because the government doesn't think about actual wealth but "gdp must go up".
The government we have now is run by an incompetent former CEO who was incredibly poor performing at that job and is incredibly poor performing at his current job in coalition with lolbertarian wackos. Their current genius idea is to tear up all our environmental protections which sustain our long term future and local democracy so we can build more houses for immigrants. GDP will go up but New Zealand will look like a delhi slum in short order.