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30-09-2013, 07:40 AM
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under investment in social infrastructure, you can get away with it if the economy provide highly stable jobs and is n a sound footing at all levels. However, this is not true in today's hire and fire corporate systems. workers are hired on short 1 yr of 2 yrs contracts and dumped off when they are no longer needed. At the same time families are beset by high levels of debt and strained by high cost of living. The end result of all this is Singaporeans having highest levels of stress, and highest level of unhappiness in the world. The sense of instability is probably linked to rising suicides and having lowest fertility rate in the world.
Can human beings be sustained in such a system over long periods ? The social problems are mounting as we see increased acts of violence towards others like the recent case of neighbor beating up neighbor and rising number of mental illness cases. Such strained families will create an environment that raises problematic children and a vicious cycle is created.
Our society is the biggest casualty of our economic pursuits as the grow at any cost strategy will have a payback we may not be able to afford. Wise leaders know not to put their people through untested boundaries but bad leaders pass the buck down and levy unbearable burdens on the people and society until the back is broken. Today we have the crowd of mindless grateful minions who will cheer on as the driver drives us all off the 1000 foot cliff .....the co driver slaps slaps but the driver is still in a deep slumber as the cliff gets ever closer....
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?164675-Lack-of-social-infrastructure-volatile-economy-high-debts-can-lead-to-severe-declin&goto=newpost).
under investment in social infrastructure, you can get away with it if the economy provide highly stable jobs and is n a sound footing at all levels. However, this is not true in today's hire and fire corporate systems. workers are hired on short 1 yr of 2 yrs contracts and dumped off when they are no longer needed. At the same time families are beset by high levels of debt and strained by high cost of living. The end result of all this is Singaporeans having highest levels of stress, and highest level of unhappiness in the world. The sense of instability is probably linked to rising suicides and having lowest fertility rate in the world.
Can human beings be sustained in such a system over long periods ? The social problems are mounting as we see increased acts of violence towards others like the recent case of neighbor beating up neighbor and rising number of mental illness cases. Such strained families will create an environment that raises problematic children and a vicious cycle is created.
Our society is the biggest casualty of our economic pursuits as the grow at any cost strategy will have a payback we may not be able to afford. Wise leaders know not to put their people through untested boundaries but bad leaders pass the buck down and levy unbearable burdens on the people and society until the back is broken. Today we have the crowd of mindless grateful minions who will cheer on as the driver drives us all off the 1000 foot cliff .....the co driver slaps slaps but the driver is still in a deep slumber as the cliff gets ever closer....
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?164675-Lack-of-social-infrastructure-volatile-economy-high-debts-can-lead-to-severe-declin&goto=newpost).