We were promised SWISS standard... Are these SWISS standard?
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Who promised you that?????
We were promised SWISS standard... Are these SWISS standard?
A television set certainly isn't a necessity. People who live in real poverty don't even have electricity or running water let alone a colour LCD TV. Singaporeans obviously have a very distorted view of what poverty is because 90% of the country lives in relative luxury enjoying all the creature comforts of life thanks to the PAP.
I know what poverty is because I lived through it. I grew up in a house with no electricity, no running water, no sanitation and no proper roof over our heads. It was an attap hut that leaked like a sieve when it rained. I had to personally push a cart more than a mile to collect water from a standpipe and had to shit in a bucket shared by 50 other families.
You don't have a clue what real poverty is and if you classify TV, mobile phone, internet connection etc as necessities you most certainly are living in a cocoon without being even remotely aware of how the majority of the rest of the world lives.
Thanks Boss Sam for providing all these insights.
I had dated quite a number of sinkie women, mudland chinese women and PRC women. All of them told me that staying in a HDB flat is consider poor
Now alot of condos are built next to HDB flats. Those staying in condos are poor too? Actually, they are ...because they will slave till they die paying off the loan.
Please don't forget to mention mice breeding in between those layers of attap leaves... KNN...
If you're going with a wide definition, ...
Meritocracy is a beast if left unchecked. It is essentially survival of the fittest and if u die... Who's problem?
If you're going with a wide definition, then anything that gives you an edge over the next sucker will be deemed merit. Adderall for rich kids to get a quick cognitive boost to ace the exams. It doesn't end.
One consequence of merit in our capitalist society is the inequitable allocation of resources. Every decision is reduced to dollars and cents, and he with the most merit, has the most cents.
When the PAP first came into power, they embarked on a massive reallocation of resources, nationalizing land and businesses. I do not know what wealth distribution was like pre-PAP, but I'd hazard a guess it was highly concentrated in the top 5% or less; worse than today.
But now we are headed back to those pre-PAP days of great wealth inequality. And merit has a large part to do with this.
There will always be the "losers" in every race. But the real issue is, how much do the winners deserve?
There is no viable alternative to meritocracy (we can't be going back to racial quotas,) but we need to relook at how much the winners of this race should get (to keep; aka taxes.)
Meritocracy is a beast if left unchecked. It is essentially survival of the fittest and if u die... Who's problem?
Even if the top 20% contributed 100% that still would not change the financial state of the lowest common denominators because losers will remain losers no matter how much money was thrown at them.
Meritocracy is a BEAST if left uncheck.
It's no different with the PAP, especially when its LEEders keep propagating that they are the BEST, with an A.
PAP is a BEAST if left uncheck.
yes it will. "financial state" is a relative concept - how much your money is worth depends on how much the next sucker has. Inflation in other words.
if we continue to have income disparity of 100x or 1000x between top and bottom jobs, we are only going to go down the pre-PAP road of highly concentrated wealth.
what's the point of money? resource allocation. leading to power. and concentration of it in the hands of the few under the current system.
Losers should be subject to financial management by the state and deprived of their free will to determine how they spend their money. if not, i will have to bear the tax burden for them.
I remember these wonderful guys tooMice, lizards, bats, hornets, wasps and spiders. Vividly, I can still visualise my father having to hide on the struts supporting the attap leaves. Oops, I missed out the deadLEE cobras.
NZ has a comprehensive welfare system where the elderly poor are given heavily subsidised state housing plus a pension of $2200 per month. Yet there are still people living in the streets. The poor remain poor not because they don't have enough money. It's because it slips through their fingers purchasing the wrong things.
Yes, so they should all be subject to financial management by the state. Gazette a list of luxuries (like iPhones) and require them to apply for a permit before they purchase.
If not my tax dollars are going to be funding the shareholders profits in apple.
I remember these wonderful guys too
LOL you enjoy crossword puzzles a lot??
Just return in full CPF as initially agree.
Actually it is just common sense. Humanity needs to rethink its priorities and ideologies. How come there is no education on the true cost of old age? Lets say a person retires at 60 and dies at 90. That is 30 years of no economic productivity. And the old person always sick etc and is suffering,,,who will want to lead that sort of life? But the true cost is never mention because the main beneficiaries of such sufferings are the medical corporations and old age care. Old age care etc are spending huge on expending facilities etc and medical corporations get huge amounts of money to try and 'save lives'. That is why there is no proper debate on euthanasia. There is no proper planning for human well being. We are living longer but our quality of life is poorer. I for one do not plan to burden my next generation with my medical bills etc and enrich those medical corporations. Its high time humans learn, death is part of life, deal with it. And remember, the ones that died are the lucky ones.Yes, the true thinking of our uncaring, egoistic and self-serving LEEders. Thank you.
Fair enough if you buy into the socialist narrative. However not having enough money to pay for the running costs of fancy electric heaters still isn't the definition of poverty.