Originally Posted by
PN
Some people say the rich will always be richer and the poor will always be poorer.
It should be the rich can become richer if they make the money work harder for them, and the poor can become poorer more easily if they don’t work hard or work smart.
In short, I believe it depends on what a person want to achieve in life. If you keep saying you want to become rich w/o doing anything, it’s as good as day dreaming.
I still remember a Newspaper report about a young karong guni man who make it big by recycling the old materials. And not to forget those millionaires and billionaires out there who went through hardship (even bankruptcy) in their early life before they become successful. If a person don't work hard and only know how to complain and complain of not being able to afford hdb and government is not helping, he will only get poorer.
For lonely old folks who has no one to depend on, “Yes” they are helpless unless the society and government can lend them a helping hand.
But for the younger generation, they must learn to understand that if they want to live a good life, you must work hard to reach there. Always plan your life a few years ahead and not counting by the day. When you reach stage1, you must work harder to reach stage2. When you are at stage2, think of how to reach stage3 * beyond.
Sounds like playing video game?
Let me quote some examples.
While having afternoon tea with a friend last week, he was telling me how disappointed he was with the newer generation. One of his staff was promoted to manager as he is doing a fantastic job consistently. Strangely enough after he was promoted, he did not appreciate what he has & started to skip work for no reason, giving lots of excuses and finally he's fired. This guy was terminated at stage2.
Another one follow his footstep, he went AWOL joying life somewhere for a few days and even dare to message his boss to give him advance pay because he has no money to come back to work. What kind of logic is this? If he don't come to work, how is he going to have money?
He also got fired. This guy did worst. He was terminated at stage1.
Strangely enough, when he look for a new manager, when he told the applicant that there will be a sales quota, he even requested to look at the past months sales figures before he take up the job. This guy was terminated at stage0. He has not even started working and is already worried that he cannot meet the target. Has no self belief and cannot take risk? What a joke. If this is how our younger generation behave, the future of Singapore is not looking good. No wonder the government needs to import foreign talent.
What's wrong with their mind and what kind of life is our younger generation living? If the foreign import can do it, why can’t they? Want to earn easy money? Will money just fall from the sky like that?
In property, some want to buy & invest in prime district. Cannot afford it and ask the government to control the property price. Some can't afford hdb and also ask the government to do something.
In short, you will never get richer if you don't think & plan your life few steps ahead & work towards it. I do agree that salary increase may not be able to catch up with the increase in property price. But if your salary doesn’t go up, isn't that worst? So salary increment is the first step you need to achieve. If it's still not enough, think of how to reach stage2 & stage3 & beyond. How to reach your desired stage is something each individual has to think hard and make plans for it to happen. No point complaining & seat there wait for things to happen.
Oops. I better stop before someone blast me for writing long story.