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“The Santa Delusion: How a Capitalist Myth Weaponizes Childhood Against Whānau” - 25 December 2025
Christmas morning, 2024. Across Aotearoa, 157,048 children—one in seven mokopuna—wake to the brutal mathematics of material hardship. They’ve been told all year that a magical being in the North Pole watches their behavior, judges their worthiness, and rewards virtue with gifts. By afternoon, many will have