The ministers and politicians like to use the phrase "Politics of Envy" or "Politics of Jealousy" to characterize people's complaints about various self-centred policies implemented by the government e.g.
(1) Benchmarking of Ministers' salaries to highest paid individuals in the private sector - whether this benchmarking is apple-to-apple comparison at all?
(2) Perpetually raising of fees and charges through corporatizing essential government services i.e. medical, housing, transportation, utility, telecommunication, education etc to allow them to charge the highest fees up to full market values and in many cases double-charging citizens on land/infrastructure costs already paid for by citizens through previous taxes etc conveniently passed to government surpluses in corporatisation schemes.
(3) Use of reserves/surpluses created in the above-stated creative accounting to reward government in the form of giving them highest salaries and bonuses like found in the NKF saga.
Against people's constant feedbacks, the government is persisting in using legalistic power to use public funds for their own agenda rather than to benefit citizens such as using public fund locally to nurture our own local talents, start our own international products or brands or retirement endowment funds which will help to retire or lower the rising costs of living.
Given the above-stated scenario on how the government has been managing the economy to benefit themselves and their own agendas, is it wrong for people to complain about their high salaries and bonuses out of envy or jealousy?