tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post307892128528842589..comments2024-03-21T14:35:09.854+08:00Comments on Singapore Notes: How Much Can You Really Eat?Tattlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11037010707866164010noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-76976325158328405502015-04-23T11:16:54.811+08:002015-04-23T11:16:54.811+08:00Tattler, maybe you should get your new HQ to send ...Tattler, maybe you should get your new HQ to send you & your family to work in Norway, and see how you can migrate there.<br /><br />Good life for your kids if you can get PR/citizenship for your family. In such countries, salaries for so-called low-level positions are quite high. Their attitude is not so much high-level or low-level, but instead whether the job is essential. E.g. there *must* be someone to be receptionist; there *must* be someone to clear the garbage or clean the toilets. And so they pay these workers respectable salaries becoz they do essential duties.<br /><br />With this kind of attitudes, these counties (especially Scandinavian countries) encourage kids & young adults to pursue their passion & interests, instead of focusing on getting highest grades so can get into "in-demand" courses like law or medicine to earn big bucks.<br /><br />Many Sinkies think the above is a lazy society but end up citizens in Scandinavian countries all have high standards of living, good salaries, and they can still produce Nobel Prize winners. While S'pore still have destitutes, multi-generational poverty, vicious life-cycle, and majority of citizens unable to retire unless children support them. Their children also caught in the same vicious cycle. And up till now no Nobel prize winners even though PAP keep on saying our education is the best in the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-92125063217529667932015-04-23T09:58:14.529+08:002015-04-23T09:58:14.529+08:005 plates of char kway teow with 2 eggs.5 plates of char kway teow with 2 eggs.Thehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02941744057903049051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-18976794586734244522015-04-22T18:54:25.785+08:002015-04-22T18:54:25.785+08:00Our ministers will have nothing to do with a thoro...Our ministers will have nothing to do with a thoroughly corrupt Dan Price. Price's dignity must have plummeted to 10% when he gives 90% of his pay to his lower paid employees.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-6864761635303676422015-04-22T15:57:52.501+08:002015-04-22T15:57:52.501+08:00Might the PM be qualified to write one "Rich ...Might the PM be qualified to write one "Rich Dad, Poor kid" ? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-40703010688157781202015-04-22T15:40:10.542+08:002015-04-22T15:40:10.542+08:00The emperors in China never had to stand for elect...The emperors in China never had to stand for elections. They justified their heavenly son status by a combination of bribery, bestowing on their mandarins and generals wealth and privileges, and force using their control of the legal system. Same mandarins and generals return the favour with their support, helping the emperor usurp and tax the masses more and more. See, if there was an honest mandarin, the emperors won't get away with murder. The cunning old fox promoted only those who checked all the correct boxes, the outspoken ones were culled, it had taken just 11 short years, the system today is the exact opposite of what it was. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-43354268873262721382015-04-22T15:21:42.784+08:002015-04-22T15:21:42.784+08:00Warren Buffett once responded to those billionaire...Warren Buffett once responded to those billionaires who said they can't donate to his Giving pledge . "I’m going to write a book on how to live on 500 million dollars.” Apparently they don't know how to. <br /><br />I suggest those retired or unelected millionaire Ministers start contemplating on writing those books instead of more 50-shades of white stories and narratives that is only one-sided. There would be more demand from the public. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8772491888812684500.post-89181108727684198332015-04-22T14:41:40.227+08:002015-04-22T14:41:40.227+08:00One other reason those horrible people always thro...One other reason those horrible people always throw out to justify their obscenely high salaries is that huge pay packets will make people less interested in corruption. Which is a hoot, of course, given that their job description is "public servant" - a position for which non-corruption should be a <b>basic requirement</b>, not some target to aim for as a bloody KPI. <br /><br />This makes me recall that blood-boiling comment from one high profile serial failure, to the effect of, "I could have been better remunerated and less harshly judged in the private sector". Well thanks for letting us know, ma'am, but if public service and its related demands wasn't your cup of tea, then whytf did you choose to join in the first place?! 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