Your 1st sentence is asking me how 'well' is my 'well'
Your 2nd last paragraph is saying $33K a month is enough to live in comfort.
The crux is your comfort level may not be the comfort level for many others.
You cannot compare how a low income, middle income, high income person on their comfort levels. Because to a low income person, having 3 meals a day could be enough for him, but to a middle income, just having 3 meals a day may not be enough. They would probably want a car plus a holiday vacation overseas for the family once a year.
Drawing $33K to manage a country, vs drawing $33K in a private sector, which one has less responsibilities and less accountability?
If someone wants to headhunt you to be in his company, he has to offer you big bucks. If he gives you peanuts, you want to take up?
As for the article on high salary helping to prevent corruption, I can only say if you are lowly paid, you will tend to walk on the by-lines looking for opportunities to milk for your own pockets or even ways to get more money. In short, corruption.
You cannot compare someone driving a mercedes and should be contented with it while others are slogging hard and may not even have enough to drive a japanese make.
In life, it is not fair. Accept it. Some are born rich, some are born poor. Some work hard don't get rich, some don't work hard still get rich. Some people kenna toto, but you buy every week, never even tio $20, so tell me what is fair.
I have a few friends who live the lifestyle of the rich, when you ask them $30K is what, to them they are drawing big bucks, they make big money, they tell me $30K is just enough for their monthly utility bills plus pool maintenance. They can afford to change 2 cars every year, buy 3-4 landed properties yearly, and you try telling them to serve the country for $33K. They are able people who can make big bucks for their companies and shareholders. But try telling them to serve the country in a way, they say they can't take the pressure of common people who will breathe down their necks even if they start to draw $1 more in salary.:o
I do admit different people have different definition of "well". If other political leaders consider $20-40k is "well" while only our leaders consider $150-250k is "well", then I have to say we are truely unique.
"Drawing $33K to manage a country, vs drawing $33K in a private sector, which one has less responsibilities and less accountability? "
It depends on the person. If he has the passion and responsibility for public service, then manange a country has more responsibilities and accountability. But if he doesnt have the qualities for public service and money is the prime motive, then manage a country(especially here) has less responsibilities and less accountability.
Do we see anyone answer for Shincorp fiasco? The fail investment in banks? ABC learning? Anyone with sense of responsibility and guilt would have stand up, apologies and quit.
"If someone wants to headhunt you to be in his company, he has to offer you big bucks. If he gives you peanuts, you want to take up?"
Still the same answer, depending on the person. If the person is only interested in how much is his pay, how much bonus is he getting and what kind of welfare for PUBLIC SERVICE, I don't think he has the qualities.
If I tell the person, "hey I got a job for you, but what i can offer you is probably less then 1/4 of what you are earning as you are already drawing 6 digits. Other then $$$, the other part of the deal is you are able to serve the country, serve the people and help to build this nation and a sense of satisfaction (not everyone measure satisfaction with money), will you take the job?" If he takes the deal, he has the qualities.
"As for the article on high salary helping to prevent corruption, I can only say if you are lowly paid, you will tend to walk on the by-lines looking for opportunities to milk for your own pockets or even ways to get more money. In short, corruption. "
Different view of what is high and what is low.
So you consider 33k a month is lowly paid and will lead to corruption?
Are you implying gordon brown, Sarkozy, Angela Merkel are looking for opportunities to milk for their own pockets? If they dont, then why do ours will? Different qualities? Attracted wrong people from start?
"You cannot compare someone driving a mercedes and should be contented with it while others are slogging hard and may not even have enough to drive a japanese make."
Public service shouldn't be luxurious in the 1st place. If base on what you said, our leaders can increase as much as they want even they say they are only contented with their own private jets? Where is the gauge? who should be setting the standard? Why is our standard so high from the rest of the world while the one directly benefitting it are the one setting it?
"In life, it is not fair. Accept it. Some are born rich, some are born poor. Some work hard don't get rich, some don't work hard still get rich. Some people kenna toto, but you buy every week, never even tio $20, so tell me what is fair."
You sound like wooden lol. Life is never fair, but does that mean we have to submit to everything that is unfair? There are certain things that cannot be done, but there are things that can be change.
If have to accept everything that is unfair, then how about 1 day you are robbed, 3 month of salary. It is unfair that you worked 3 months for it while the robber just snatch it away from you. You would not make a police report since you should be accept unfairness, right? You wouldnt even want the slightest chance to recover what you have lost from this unfairness right? You wouldnt even want to nab this robber so that to prevent the next unfair robbery right? Is that what you mean by accepting it?
