A fallacy to think low-wage workers are cheap - Yawning Bread

[Confuseous]

The immediate question I had – which is not particularly relevant to this article – was why he flouted the safety rule that no man should try to lift more than 20 kg. He had no choice, he said. His boss would fire him if he did not do as told. The small point of relevance here is that our foreign labour policies are so careful to please employers, they give carte blanche powers to bosses to fire workers at will; in the same way, our policymakers may be paralysed with fear when it comes to telling them that going forward, they need to pay workers more and use fewer of them.

However, more pertinent to this article was the worker’s answer when I asked him why it was necessary to carry sacks of cement up rickety stairs in the first place. There was no lifting equipment — was the answer.

And there you have it: a vicious cycle. Assured of plentiful supply of cheap labour there is no incentive to mechanise. The result is that human beings are used as mules. Is it any wonder that our productivity is abysmal?

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[QXD]

The vicious cycle does not end there.

No incentive to automate->no motivation for training->lack of necessary skillsets in industry-> more clamoring for cheaper labour.

And where does this eventually lead to? One debased, depraved society and a ever more squeezed middle class.Looking around sg, it would seem that PAP is now trying to replicate this "winning formula" beyond that of manual labor.Look around the polyclinics, hospitals, factories and you see under trained engineers, nurses, lawyers from 3 world countries working for pennies and many start out living in hostels.

A revolt against the PAP motherfucking pigs is therefore no more an ideal, but only a matter of time. If not by the Singaporeans, then by the downtrodden foreign workforce.

 

[Conqueror]

Fascist Superman

Sorry, Hairy Lee has got a great idea to use Samsui women to the max by paying a few peanuts. No way is he going to let up this silly mistakes of his to be creative and productive. His creativity is often used in creating strange rhetoric to fool the asses to work harder and longer while he need to take a never ending holidays talking cocks. One way to do it is to write books on how he cried when Singa-poo became independent or why he was still living with fishermen while Stamford Raffles was also in sarong. Lee was then a Superman ! Who are we kidding ?

 

[The Philistine]

The vicious cycle does not end there.

No incentive to automate->no motivation for training->lack of necessary skillsets in industry-> more clamoring for cheaper labour.

And where does this eventually lead to? One debased, depraved society and a ever more squeezed middle class.Looking around sg, it would seem that PAP is now trying to replicate this "winning formula" beyond that of manual labor.Look around the polyclinics, hospitals, factories and you see under trained engineers, nurses, lawyers from 3 world countries working for pennies and many start out living in hostels.

A revolt against the PAP motherfucking pigs is therefore no more an ideal, but only a matter of time. If not by the Singaporeans, then by the downtrodden foreign workforce.

You are wrong. Sinkies are too gutless to revolt. They will only revolt if a hero like Tonychat leads the way, and we all know this is impossible. As for the foreigners, they can jolly well fuck off back to their respective shitholes. Stay here and revolt for fuck?

 

[QXD]

You are wrong. Sinkies are too gutless to revolt. They will only revolt if a hero like Tonychat leads the way, and we all know this is impossible. As for the foreigners, they can jolly well fuck off back to their respective shitholes. Stay here and revolt for fuck?

Yes, you are right. Pretty sure if bangla not happy, can anytime buy one air ticket and fly home. My mistake, thank you for your brillant insight.