It's so expensive to retire leh! We need protection of our wages!

[Leongsam]

I strongly support helping the poor.

Why do you want to help those lazy, useless, good-for-nothing fuckwits. The poor don't need help. It will only make them even less motivated to help themselves.

What the poor need is a kick in the backside.

 

[po2wq]

I saw this video on facebook and it's not easy to retire in SG now ...

dat samburger is bracing himself 4 cyclone lusi ...
ask him 2 donate 2 ur retiremen fun ...

 

[MaxRiley]

Why do you want to help those lazy, useless, good-for-nothing fuckwits. The poor don't need help. It will only make them even less motivated to help themselves.

What the poor need is a kick in the backside.

Well sometimes people are born into less privileged families. Given their background, they get stuck where they're at.
As much as we want to push them, without education and a good job, we can kick them but they can't budge either.
So how to help them? We need policies in place to protect them.

 

[Leongsam]

So how to help them? We need policies in place to protect them.

You're making an assumption that they need to be protected. In my opinion, the law of natural selection should be allowed to run its course.

Just leave them to their own devices and if they don't make the grade, let them perish.

It may sound like a cruel way of dealing with the issue but that is the way nature intended it to be and we mess with nature at our own peril.

 

[Agoraphobic]

In North America, the poor sell drugs, and some become rich after that. A few become extremely wealthy if they don't do the drugs themselves and usurp their merchandise. What is needed is a sizeable market of affluent partyers who do drugs. Don't need education, just some discipline.

Cheers!

Well sometimes people are born into less privileged families. Given their background, they get stuck where they're at.
As much as we want to push them, without education and a good job, we can kick them but they can't budge either.
So how to help them? We need policies in place to protect them.

 

[Leongsam]

TECH

Bill Gates: People Don't Realise How Many Jobs Will Soon Be Replaced By Software Bots

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Big changes are coming to the labour market that people and governments aren’t prepared for, Bill Gates believes.

Speaking at Washington, D.C., economic think tank The American Enterprise Institute on Thursday, Gates said than within 20 years, a lot of jobs will go away, replaced by software automation (“bots” in tech slang, though Gates used the term “software substitution”).

This what he said:

“Software substitution, whether it’s for drivers or waiters or nurses … it’s progressing. … Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. … 20 years from now, labour demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.”

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He’s not the only one predicting this gloomy scenario for workers. In January, the Economist ran a big profile naming over a dozen jobs sure to be taken over by robots in the next 20 years, including telemarketers, accountants and retail workers.

Gates believes that the tax codes are going to need to change to encourage companies to hire employees, including, perhaps, eliminating income and payroll taxes altogether. He’s also not a fan of raising the minimum wage, fearing that it will discourage employers to hire workers in the very categories of jobs that are most threatened by automation.

He explained:

“When people say we should raise the minimum wage. I worry about what that does to job creation … potentially damping demand in the part of the labour spectrum that I’m most worried about.”
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[tanwahtiu]

don't have to see them so up.

The current ministers are from the army, it do smells something prawny, no fish prawns also can.

If they are voted out, Singapore will be in an even worse state. If you think the current bunch of ministers aren't up to scratch, just wait till you experience real stupidity courtesy of the current opposition parties.

 

[tanwahtiu]

The current brith rate of angmoh is 0.8 and in 20-50 years time their descendants is left a few rely on robots more why need Chinks and Ah Neh?

 

[syed putra]

Merge with Indonesia. Then you will have 100 million lowly paid workers to serve the retirees.

 

[chonburifc]

Why do you want to help those lazy, useless, good-for-nothing fuckwits. The poor don't need help. It will only make them even less motivated to help themselves.

What the poor need is a kick in the backside.

Thought you say there is no poverty in Sinking land?

 

[AndyLeung]

How to retire when everything is so expensive ....