Cheap things are no good !!! Is that true ? When computers were
first sold they were expensive costing $100,000.00 for a
mini-computer to process accounting or project management packages.
Micro-computers with very little memory power like Radio Shack (16
K ram) or Apple E-plus (64K ram) cost $600 or more in 1970s when
such an amount was equal to $2,000.00 perhaps by today's purchasing
power.
Yet today a micro-computer can perform the job of a mini-computer
worth $100,000.00 cost only $1,000.00.
So a good government should add value to our lives and upgrade the
ram and performance architecture with incremental improvements of
capabilities as is taking place in the real first world countries
not insist that people should pay their ministers more to get
higher performers.
It is simply a fallacy which needs to be debunk. If our ministers
are paid less than $1,500,000.00 p.a. does it really mean that we
cannot have good people with quantum-leap quality capability?
It is a matter of whether our leaders know how to add values to our
capabilities, entrepreneurship, creativity and implementation
abilities and not practise the old assumptions that only when we
pay more we can then get better people to come forward to serve.
They have lost touch with the outside world and have failed to
understand how to add values through democracy, mass participation
and practical knowledge application.
