Well, you know alot of kiam ku Singaporean, as a contractor to
yards, everytime, keppel gives bonuses, you see new cars on their
car park..
In taxi driving, simple logic, yr income will only increase if
there is a fare increase without rental and fuel increase. Because
of the rental increased and the fuel increased, fares was adjusted.
It is not base on inflation, whereby cost of living had gone up by
5.2% for the last 3 years, meaning, in total 15% increased in your
daily personal and household expenses, from meepok to Power supply
bills.
If you said you are earning 3k now as taxi driver, you are no
different from 10 years ago where you are earning about 2k, because
the compounded inflation, taxi rental , fuel prices
and cost of living would not justify any increment, if not,
lesser in sense.
In a real world, given a 5% inflation, wage should increase
beyong that 5%, so or 14% increment, 9% is then consider as real
wage increment, the other 5% is to offset inflation.
Typically, for a TD, if, for the past 3 years, you are earning
3k, then you are actually losing out in a real wage market, given a
15% increase of 3k, you should get $3450, and that $450 only
offset the cost of living, from high phone bills to essential items
like rice, detergent, books, sugar, coffee...and so on. In
term of real income increase, you get nothing unless you hit above
the $3450 marks.
And without bonuses and other perks, I will strongly recommend
that if you got opportunity to work again, let go taxis driving,
unless you got not much choice or that your age and also character
play a part.
wat to do bro?? the other 60.1% decide to F ourselves n be
slaves to the
ruling party n let the FTs suppress us..................
