The Weekend: The illusion of choice

The Weekend: The illusion of choice

Madeleine Chapman reflects on the week that was. Over the past two years, The Spinoff has published more than 130 entries in our Cost of Being series. We got off to a shaky start, with a number of readers believing that presenting poor people’s spending habits was glamourising poverty (bad) and presenting rich people’s spending habits was celebrating wealth (even worse). Thankfully, as more and more New Zealanders – and yes, they are all written…