When elites start to look for higher rewards for themselves,
they can make all kinds of clever comparison to show that
S$600,000.00 pa is too low to pay Durains.
So they want more and more self-rewards and started making more and
more bolder comparisons as if they are the Li Ka Shing or Bill
Gates.
When they saw that footballers, stock brokers are getting higher
pays, they become more edgy and wanted to be paid higher and
higher.
But when stock brokers' income dropped in a bad market, there was
no acknowledgement and dropping of elites' pays but instead they
quickly started changing their comparisons to others.
This is really what a system of elitism may do to a country and
when the problems came like the recessions they would quickly deny
their responsibility and keep pushing the problems back to the
people.
So how do citizens continue to believe in our elites and whether
S$600,000.00 pa is still considered underpaid or peanuts.
Where does the standard of arguments fare in the real world where
CEOs are paid this kind of monies. Simple many public listed
companies which paid this kind of peanuts are losing monies but are
the elites going to admit this fact.
The benchmarking of our elites' salaries to the highest paid bosses
in the commercial sector is like telling the citizens that in the
event the country loses monies like in Shin Corp the elites will
use their own monies to make good the losses.
What is ridiculous is ridiculous. The comparison with private
sector's bosses' self-rewards is incorrect, wrong and
immoral.
The bosses and entrepreneurs staked in their own monies in their
own businesses but our elites only use the public and taxpayers'
monies to spend on projects and services like bill collectors and
do not have to worry about unemployments or losses.
So from the above-stated facts, it is more than obvious that public
sector employees and ministers and MPs are different kettles of
fish. They are entitled to wage-remuneration and not all the
comparison with the highest paid jobs in the world.
But despite the fact that charity organizations are hardly able to
raise enough monies for the suffering dying patients it is immoral
to pay huge proportions of donations towards their CEOs' peanut
pays and bonuses for doing mundane collection jobs.
S$600,000.00 is already way above wage-remuneration categories'
highest rewards for labour and yet our elites continue to lament
that these are not enough.
Give us all the facts then to show that the world-class charity
organizations elsewhere are paying millions to their CEOs while
patients are enjoying cures of their diseases at token fees.
So there is no end to all the clever arguments the elites are
putting up to justify what is enough. For the time being, citizens
are still waiting for them to solve the "20 Major government policy
errors" and when that happen, may be it is not too late to consider
how much is enough.
