Hundreds of others are dying slowly of industrial diseases or are mutilated for life. More than 40,000 people are homeless, overcrowded in spare rooms, caravans or living in cars. Hundreds of children live in stormwater pipes seeking solace in a bag of glue. 3,000 people attempt suicide each year. 2,400 people are hospitalised by assaults and attempted murder.
People live in misery so a small clique of very wealthy individuals can live in luxury.
The idea that everyone can get rich under this system is a lie invented by the rich themselves. Under capitalism, the only way to get rich is to trample on someone else. There is only room for a few capitalists - at any time the great majority must work and be robbed. Racism and National Oppression Capitalism in Aotearoa was built on migrant labour from Europe. But in addition the capitalists turned to non-European migration for supplies of cheap flexible labour in times of economic expansion.