Framing NZ as first world country isn’t realistic

Opinion: We are often held back from achieving goals by limitations in our thinking that we impose on ourselves. This is true for individuals, whānau, firms and other organisations as well as countries.
For sure, we also have limitations of both physical and social kinds on what we can achieve. We make our own futures, a wise person once wrote, but we do not make them in conditions we choose. In pursuing our aims we think and act within frameworks of what we think is normal or realistic.