Singaporeans should work overseas and let foreigners work here

Too much home comfort? Singapore needs more citizens to work abroad and gain international exposure

There are many advantages of staying grounded in Singapore, especially as working overseas may not necessarily pay better, but experts say that the advantages of gaining international work experience will pay off handsomely in the long run.  Taufiq Zalizan CNA

"The problem for Singaporeans … is that there's simply no economic reason to work overseas, especially in the region," said the associate professor at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS).

Jobs here pay better than their equivalents in neighbouring countries and even in some developed countries after accounting for expenses and taxes, labour and manpower experts noted. Thus, it is hardly attractive for Singaporeans to leave the comfort of their homes and families to work abroad....

The above is from an article by a foreigner or new citizen encouraging Singaporeans to leave their better paying jobs in Singapore, uproot from their families, to work overseas for lesser pay but to gain experience. The reasoning to some point is sound, but with a big hole that smells foul.

Not only it is difficult to get a good job overseas. Today, many countries are paying lesser than jobs in Singapore, and overseas jobs are not easy to come by. The biggest flaw about gaining foreign experience as an advantage is meaningless when many Singapore companies, big and small, are nothing different from chicken rice stalls, selling goods and services that are local in nature that do not compete with foreign companies, and their customers are Singaporeans, and with little chance of operating in an international environment. Even if one or two go overseas, they hardly need the foreign experience when the advantage is being a Singapore product.

This is the big bull in this argument about gaining foreign experience. It may be useful to some top jobs, but most of the time it is something good to have but not essential. More than 90% of jobs, including top jobs do not need overseas experience. Overseas experience gained for lower and middle management jobs are nothing to crow about.

The displacement and dislocation costs are prohibitive and a very high price to pay for Singaporeans working overseas. There is no guarantee that they can get a comparable job on their return. 

The biggest advantage for this kind of thinking is that more foreigners can come in to replace Singaporeans in good jobs with better pay. It would lead to the hollowing out of out talents and be replaced by foreigners. This is an existential threat to Singapore, when talented Singaporeans work overseas and foreigners come in to replace them. It is a deadly blood transfusion, supposedly good but really bad for Singapore. Singapore is home to Singaporeans not to foreigners.

Chicken rice sellers don't need overseas experience. Period. All govt and ministry jobs do not need overseas experience. Most GLCs don't need overseas experience. Even the CEOs of local banks do not need overseas experience. It is only something good to have. Tell me, which job must have overseas experience, that overseas experience is essential, a must have? Stop being fooled into selling out Singaporeans and allowing foreigners to take over Singapore. The days when overseas jobs are better paying and worthy of the experience and the sacrifices of dislocation and working away from home is over. A Singaporean working overseas would have a tough time readjusting and adapting on returning to Singapore, and often becomes poorer financially and in many other aspects. The cost of housing and cars would kill the thought of returning to Singapore. The cost of living here would make returning to Singapore very difficult, except for a few top jobs that pays enough to return.

Only foreigners would encourage Singaporeans to work overseas so that they can take over their jobs and their country, Singapore. Anyone promoting or telling Singaporeans to work overseas, ask who are they, are they Singaporeans, what are their motive and intention.

When America and Europe have nothing to sell to the world

 When America and Europe have nothing to sell to the world.  Actually this is already happening now. China just confidently banned all buying of American chips, not just Nvidia high end chips, but all chips, including those from AMD, Intel and Qualcomm. This means that China is now able to develop and manufacture all the chips it needs for itself and for the rest of the world. This means that the growth potential of all American chip designers and manufacturers have been capped. Without the huge Chinese markets that can buy in large volumes, the American companies cannot plan for future expansion and bigger sales. No country needs to buy big volumes of chips, expensive chips from America. No country has that kind of need and money to do so.

Chips are about the last thing that China needs to buy from America. When China does not need to buy Chips from America, there is nothing else that China needs to buy from America or even Europe. China is now self sufficient in everything it needs. This is not the only thing that would frighten the Americans and Europeans. China is going to sell to the rest of the world everything they need, cheaply and plenty, with quality as good if not better than America and Europe. This is the end of free trade for America and Europe. They cannot compete with China in quality, quantity and price. A good example is civil and military aircraft. Even if the Americans can coerce its allies to buy them, they cannot deliver them. They did not have the manufacturing capacity to build fast and in big quantities.  And why would any country want to buy poorer quality, less able and more expensive aircraft from the Americans and Europe when they can get better aircraft from China?

When America and Europe cannot sell to the world, unable to compete, where are their revenues going to to come from? How are their factories going to continue to produce and to exist, to create employment, jobs, when they cannot sell anything to the world? When that happens, and is happening now, America and Europe will have no money to buy anything from the rest of the world. They can only buy and trade among themselves in their little world, by raising trade barriers. They will become an island of their own, trading and consuming expensive and lower quality goods that the world does not need.

What kind of world would it be when America and Europe have nothing to sell to the world, nothing to trade with the rest of the world? The rest of the world will be trading and enjoying the best products at the best prices they are willing and happy to pay from China. China's over capacity in all essential and useful products would only improve the quality of lives of the people of the world. The Americans and Europeans too would be buying Chinese goods and services and those made in the Global South countries. No one can refuse good value for money that does not hurt the pocket.

America and India blames China for their unemployment problems. What an idiot.

The action of the USA and Europeans are actually turning into a blessing in disguise for countries in Africa, Latin America and some Eastern European countries after China migrated its investing and factories building from USA and Europe into those countries to create jobs for their citizens.

While jobs are being deprived in USA and Europe by cutting off Chinese investments, other countries in the Global South are counting their blessings. While the Global South countries are moving ahead, the USA and its European allies are being left behind.

I have to mention one example of what is happening closer to Asia, with India refusing to allow BYD to build a factory in India. BYD decided instead built its factory in Pakistan, a tight slap on Modi's face. Now who is benefiting from BYD's investment? Play stupid games and get stupid prizes is what India is doing. India needs jobs, plenty of it. Now the Indian rupee is at all-time low and India is going to be a basket case in time to come.

How much longer can Modi hope to sell his snake oil is anybody's guess. But the damage has already been done and knowing how Indians do things, it will take generations to put things in order, provided India gets a good leader to replace him. With all the corruption rampant in its top leaders today, things do not look optimistic even if they try to drain the swamp. Someone else tried draining its swamp, but is making it even swampier, LOL.


Anonymous

Yep, China is collapsing if it makes some people happy

Yep, China is collapsing if it makes some people happy. On social media, those anti-China bots are posting ridiculous videos about China's tofu bridges, tofu train stations, tofu airports collapsing every day. Yet countries are asking China to build their infrastructures like high-speed rails, ports, airports, bridges and nuclear power stations that are touted to fail. China's robots performing stunts are claimed to be remote controlled and I suppose even Xi Jinping and Wang Yi are remotely controlled by someone. Maybe Trump?

I do not have to watch such mindless production. The heading already tells me what the motive was for posting such fabricated nonsense that contains not an iota of truth, totally different from reality.

Alright, let them crow on their dung heap about China collapsing. The truth is, China had been collapsing over the last two decades and a half up to today and will continue to collapse for several more decades to come. Does fiction make any difference when China is having a trade surplus of US$1 trillion after decades of collapsing? Who knows who else is realistically collapsing?


Anonymous

Time to fight the American terrorists in uniform

These Murderers on the UASSA'S Isignias Uniforms are Wars Heros/Herrings, oops Heroines when ran for CON-GRESS and SENILE-NATORS shall bragged how many they killed in their Invasions and Robberies of the weaker and helpless Countries and their own Insane Dysfunctional Sick Americunts shall cheer and elect them.

Their luxurious lives on Robberies, Killing and Manipulations of Other Lives and Livings.

Living on FREE credits of the Stupidities of the World for too long.

With their Free printing of their no collaterals no assets backing banana currency.

Now with China controlling their Rare Earth for their Military Industries it's high time that China should accelerate faster their military arsenals and also same time supplied to other allied nations to upscale their Military Prowess and then simultaneously annihilate the damn White Barbarians and Savages

Don't missed this golden opportunity


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