Hong Kong sets Minimum Wage - What one Singaporean thinks
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Originally posted by Hitman 778:
i lived at grange road too...hey wadday know??!!!!we are all neighbours!!!
havelock area? -
Originally posted by Hitman 778:
i lived at grange road too...hey wadday know??!!!!we are all neighbours!!!
Orange and Grange are quite far apart, you must hv got the wrong neighbour, anyway, my Dad told me not to mix with people from address 778 -
Nonsense.
Hitman 778 lives near Pelangi Village.
How can you be neighbours?
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Originally posted by angel7030:
Orange and Grange are quite far apart, you must hv got the wrong neighbour, anyway, my Dad told me not to mix with people from address 778
Angel live in joo chiat right? -
Originally posted by likeyou:
Angel live in joo chiat right?
No, Joo Chiat left side -
Originally posted by βÎτά:
Nonsense.
Hitman 778 lives near Pelangi Village.
How can you be neighbours?
I once visiting him at upper changi road with those tall surrounding walls with barb wires, but he was seconded to Queentown, so kind of missed him. -
angel7030......u mistook me for one of yer knuckleheaded mule headed boyfrends who got thrown into slammer.
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beta lives at IMH .... he knows only about woodbridge hospital, pelangi village and imh.ask him anything else.....he would keep quiet.;)
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I believe the most important thing to do is to constantly encourage workforce training and implement programs such as government subsidies on trainings, seminars, etc.
This will encourage improvement in skills.
Hopefully that can help with wages.
That way is better, than directly setting the wages itself.
But the thing with "minimum wage" issue, I believe, is the desire to protect the people, and indeed there must be more effort spent to protect the people.
Especially Singapore has one of the world's highest Ginni coefficient, there is much gap between rich and poor.
Singapore is also a highly developped small city / urban area, with pressures in living costs.
Thusly, it is imperative to think of new ways to achieve progressive socialism in the 21st century.
For instance, HDB, as a socialist implementation, is showing signs of fatigue and mis-allocation.
People are not marrying and birthing enough.
This means the stresses have reached the roofs and have even reached the stage where it interfered with basic human developments.
I propose housing sector must be liberalized, competition encouraged, and a "mariage subsidy" implemented just like there is a "higher education subsidy" when someone enter poly or university.
Because honestly, just like the higher education subsidy is a great progressive policy which encourage meritocracy and social mobility, it is no less important to ensure the survival of the people. If the marriage and childbirth rate keep dropping, one day Singapore will be the size of Brunai.
To come back to the issue of minimum wage, I once again strongly oppose it, because it will cut off the lowest segments of the people, such as, the youth, the part-timers, the semi-unemployed, etc. In other words, it is not a progressive policy and it does not promote equality in society.
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Look at ireland, was force to impose min. wage policy.
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Originally posted by Veggie Bao:
I believe the most important thing to do is to constantly encourage workforce training and implement programs such as government subsidies on trainings, seminars, etc.
This will encourage improvement in skills.
Hopefully that can help with wages.
That way is better, than directly setting the wages itself.
But the thing with "minimum wage" issue, I believe, is the desire to protect the people, and indeed there must be more effort spent to protect the people.
Especially Singapore has one of the world's highest Ginni coefficient, there is much gap between rich and poor.
Singapore is also a highly developped small city / urban area, with pressures in living costs.
Thusly, it is imperative to think of new ways to achieve progressive socialism in the 21st century.
For instance, HDB, as a socialist implementation, is showing signs of fatigue and mis-allocation.
People are not marrying and birthing enough.
This means the stresses have reached the roofs and have even reached the stage where it interfered with basic human developments.
I propose housing sector must be liberalized, competition encouraged, and a "mariage subsidy" implemented just like there is a "higher education subsidy" when someone enter poly or university.
Because honestly, just like the higher education subsidy is a great progressive policy which encourage meritocracy and social mobility, it is no less important to ensure the survival of the people. If the marriage and childbirth rate keep dropping, one day Singapore will be the size of Brunai.
To come back to the issue of minimum wage, I once again strongly oppose it, because it will cut off the lowest segments of the people, such as, the youth, the part-timers, the semi-unemployed, etc. In other words, it is not a progressive policy and it does not promote equality in society.
Many singaporeans, especially the 45yo and above are the last survivor of the baby boomer period, most are hard working people, but lack the direction and the knowledge to adapt to new society such as globalisation and IT age. This group of people, given upgrading, they are more reluctant as they do not like going back to classroom. Even if they have a diploma or degree, it is consider out of date, should go back and refresh it.Our govt had given up on childbirth policy, it already said by PM during the national day rally, if you all dun give birth, we have to take peoples from outside, therefore, there are more and more foreigners, mostly from our surrounding third world entering our country to work and easily get PR or citzenship status. So, it is no more an issue for the govt. But it will be an issue to the locals who will have to struggle and compete with them.
And as peoples flock in not in a generation gap, but within two to three years, the demanding for housing is high, ultimately, that jack up the prices which contradict what former PM Goh said, "We promise all singaporeans that there will be a roof on top of their head, we will built affordable flat to cater to all singaporeans" today, Mah is trying desparately to stick to this motto said in the 90s, but he alway end up saying the wrong things. With that motto broken, peoples unable to have a roof on top, but instead have tent on top at beaches, i think the govt have to do some soul searching.
As I have repeated many times, mini wage is not conducive for Singapore, it is not that i support the govt, by setting mini wage, you may create a lower wage for singaporeans