Under 30s unemployment reaches 10.5%
It is unacceptable for this government to continue to engage in massive foreign talent employment and leave our young adults highly educated but unemployed.
May I ask at what % of unemployment will the PAP finally address this issue with the gravitas it deserves? Clearly not at 5% or 8% or 10%…..
In the meantime the cost of lost income, lost potential, lost hope and lost opportunities burden our brilliant young Singaporeans.
Lim Tean
The above is part of an article posted by Lim Tean in TRE. It highlights the high unemployment of Singapore's young that are increasingly finding it more difficult to land a proper permanent job in Singapore, an island that could provide at least a few hundred thousand good jobs, permanent jobs to foreigners with real degrees, half past six or fake degrees. At face value the unemployment of Singaporeans be they PMETs, young and old, should be a serious concern of the govt. I used to talk about it, thinking in my naive way, that since Singapore belongs to Singaporeans, job priority must go to Singaporeans first, just like what Lim Tean was saying above.
Now as I get to understand the ruling govt's policy on meritocracy, I also start to understand why things are going about this way, why many highly qualified and experience PMETs and young graduates are seeking to find work as Grab drivers or food delivery persons.
Singapore is all about meritocracy. The best man wins the job, gets the jobs. That is why you see so many talented men and women in the govt, and being paid in the millions. Singaporeans that could not get a decent job, a permanent job, must reflect on themselves why they ended up jobless or as temporary staff or as Grab drivers and delivery boys and girls. Obviously they are less able than those that got the good jobs. Do not believe in the piece of paper from so called world class universities. Foreigners with degrees from God knows where universities or with fake degrees or no degrees could be more talented and thus deserved the good jobs, based on merits of course. Can do the job while Singaporeans can't despite the expensive degrees.
Singapore is a place built and designed for talented people. Those that are less talented must give way to the more talented, be it in the govt or in the private sector. This is the foundation of Singapore's well being and future prosperity. Singaporeans and Singapore citizenship do not guarantee a Singaporean a good job. Meritocracy is the way to go, regardless of citizenship, race or nationality.
The govt and the big banks and big corporations are seeing more and more untalented, unmeritocratic Singaporeans being replaced by foreigners, and if necessary, make them Singaporeans and no one can be unhappy that non Singaporeans are taking over their jobs. Singaporeans must accept that meritocracy is the best policy for the survival of Singapore, and Singaporeans must live with it or move out. The banking and finance industry is setting the trend to replace Singaporeans with talented foreigners based on meritocracy. Just walk around MBFC or Raffles Place and you would be able to feel the beat and presence of so many talented foreigners, oops, new citizens and residents. The IT industry is already as good as a foreigner industry. Soon other professions would follow, like the academics and even in the govt, in Parliament and the Cabinet.
Meritocracy is the best policy for Singapore to survive, like it or not. They used to say what is a piece of paper when they meant a degree is useless if the holder cannot work. Now the piece of paper can also mean the citizenship or IC. What good is that if the person cannot work and a better and more talented foreigners can be found to take his place? And it is so much easy for a foreigner to get a citizenship than an expensive degree from our world class universities. Just apply only, cheap and fast.
The lack of talent in Singapore is so obvious, especially in banking. So do not be surprise that all the top banking jobs would go to foreign talents aka new citizens and the less meritocratic Singaporeans would just have to give way. Those that are in the banking industry are still there for show as one by one they would be replaced by the best bankers from India. Indians are born to be bankers, a natural gift. And soon all the ministers could also be foreigners, oops, new citizens.
Meritocrazy is best for Singapore. Oops, I mean meritocracy.
What do you think?
11 comments:
We are very exasperated with the 61.24% . . .
All foreign talents please come and apply for good high paying jobs in Singapore. Singapore needs you.
The untalented Singaporeans will make way to become manual workers. They will be trained to downskill and to take on lower level jobs.
This insanity of training to downskill, training for lower skill jobs is unbelieveable. Everywhere people are training to upskill for higher paying jobs.
It was a sad day for Singapore youth when Khaw Boon Wan, then PAP chairman, told students and young adults in an Our Singapore Conversation dialogue: "If they cannot find jobs, what is the point? You own a degree, but so what? That you can't eat it. If that cannot give you a good life, a good job, it is meaningless."
Meanwhile, Singapore able to invest in India and India nationals able to flood Singapore to take up jobs thanks to CECA negotiated by Heng Swee Keat and team.
The absurdity of policies, especially made by those who sing the need for "right" decisions instead of popular decisions, has become the norm of the day instead of exception.
This absurdity must be pointed out and condemned.
We must not allow a few self-serving, crafty balls-carriers to manipulate with words to justify their unpopular policies that in effect punish our local citizens (exclude new citizens who are the beneficiaries of those traitorous policies).
Time to vote out these balls-carrying, anti-popular-votes traitors.
While the 61% are still very happy with the PAP, the 39% are suffering.
When the 61% begin to join the ranks of the suffering, will the tide change 😝?
Talented foreigners, please come. You will be judged by your merits, not your colour or your nationality.
If there are 5m foreigners that are more talented than the Singaporeans, they should replace the lesser talented Singaporeans.
Agree?
KNN. If they find more talented foreigners than Kee Chiu or Heng ah, would they replace these two as PM and DPM?
The headlines on Sunday Times says, “Births here hit historic low as deaths climb to historic peak”....
Instead, it suggest that the higher number of deaths is due to an ageing population. But the population has been ageing all along. Could one more year make such a difference?
Does anyone know why the number of deaths was so high last year?
Foong Swee Fong in TRE
Good reason to bring in more foreign talents to increase the population.
The govt now requires dependents of CECA talent in Singapore to also have to apply for a work permit. I see in these Indian forums alot of them KPKB.Whotf do they think the are to voice out thats its unfair? Even the country they are assworshipping recently,the US under Biden still hasn't reversed their employment policy against foreigners set by Trump.
They should be thankful their spouses are gainfully employed in Singapore. PMET Job opportuniy is a zero sum game especially in this pandemic. A job taken by a foreigner is a job lost to a Singaporean.
The Truth About Meritocracy
Meritocracy, like democracy, has become a dirty word in the world today.
It does not bring about equality but creates inequality.
It does not bring about freedom but creates restrictions and limitations.
It does not bring out the beauty of those who have talents but their ugliness and their iniquities.
It does not help the majority nor the society but only serves the few who set out to grab the best of everything for themselves.
Most importantly, it does not bring happiness to the country and its people but only questionable happiness to a few.
Finally, it leads to a elitist society controlled and manipulated at the very pinnacle of power by a tiny group of self-serving, self-enriching and self-praising elitists, always hungry and greedy for more and more.....
LP.
Yes, Singapore is a meritocracy. The talent that is prized here, however, is not academic, artistic or practical. It is the talent for performing magic - for turning fake into real and lies into truth. And we have a surfeit of such talent here. They are found everywhere, especially at the higher levels and top of organisations, institutions, banks, hospitals, etc.
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