What no choice, there are choice in life, either individual or
in a group, just like the recent election, it is a group choice,
people choose that Govt, so be it. So when people mandated them,
mean that people agreed to the white paper of 6.9 million
populations, that is a group choice.
And why u need so many TD, because of increase in populaton,
same goes to housing, notice more and more are built, but if you
are to reduce the population, do you still need 55000 cabbies? like
in 80s when I driving, population only 3 millions ++, you just need
30k cabbies, and more than enuf, because rental was low, vehicle
was cheap and good.
So to reduce that human dependency, automation and robotic is
the way to go, Japan also hv a aging population, and yet they do
not need or do not wish to take in foreigners, as it will erode
their culture, like today SIngapore, become a rojak culture with no
identity.
Eh..you SIngaporean ar? Yes, China Singaporean or Malaysia
Singaporean??
Nabey
The election results did not imply that Singaporeans in general
approve of 6.9 million population... it only says that Singaporeans
think PAP is doing a good enough job in general (not in all areas)
...some voted PAP because of goodies given our before elections,
Pioneer Generation package and lift-upgrading politics.
Incidentally, foreigners sway election results by about 3%
per 4-5 years (which also means Ajunied Workers Party is in jeapody
next election).
You only automate if you are not competitive relative to your
peer countries..... robots are supposed to complement not
eliminate humans. Incidentally our taxi industry is
more competitive than Japan's due to better business self-employed
taxi drivers model that charges economical taxi rates that
consumers could afford to pay. In Tokyo, a trip from airport
to Toyko downtown cost S$289.97 ( 25,350
for only 60km).
If use our rate of 22 cents per 350m, it should only cost
$37.7+$3 surcharge. Even if you take during midnight +
advanced booked + use Chrysler limo taxi, ours is a lot cheaper
than theirs. If we charge using their rates, we only have to
make one trip per day and could call it a day.
There are more cabbies now because many Singaporeans were
eliminated for foreign workers but it is also true that when the
population is bigger, more taxi drivers are needed. However,
this demand would drop when the new MRT lines are completed.
Quite a few passengers that I ferried told me they were
seriously considering joining the taxi industry. So taxi
industry is where a lot of people who are retrenched or have to do
a mid-career switch would end up at. Many people from SAF
and police after they have to stop working there at age of 45 (SGTs
and Enciks) would become taxi drivers. I ever met a
Lt-Colonel from SAF who became a property agent and a SAF Captain
who became a renovator. Many white collars who got retrenched
would also end up as taxi drivers due to not willing to go under
younger superiors and companies not willing to train them.
Also there are cases of people who could not get along with
their new ex-superiors and those not willing to relocate to other
countries which their companies want to force them to do so.
One IT customer I had told me he quit his IT job last time
because he could not handle the workload and his company was not
willing to hire one more person to help. After he quited, his
company hired 4 foreigners to replace him.
Can you imagine if there is no backup jobs for Singaporeans what
we would be working as? So not having driverless taxis is
what most Singaporeans want as they could be retrenched anytime and
would want to have a backup job.
