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Taxi driver story's response shows citizens have more media literacy than ST

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The focus then should be on how much profits taxi operators, such as ComfortDelGro, derive from the blood, sweat and tears of taxi drivers.

A much more interesting question a newspaper should be asking is what market forces are at work to determine the rental rate for taxis daily.

If COE and housing prices can fluctuate, why not taxi rental rates?

Where are the statistics? Where are the spokespersons from the various transport operators?

Think about it: if taxi rental is S$100 a day, that's $2 million worth of rental collected per day by taxi operators from at least 20,000 taxis.

That's $60 million a month and that sounds like a really interesting news story.


The silver lining from this case is that readers overall score much higher in media literacy than perhaps what the government gives them credit for.

Following the publication of the $7k-a-month taxi driver, people have snorted, cast doubts and done their own homework.

Because deep down inside, people do know if anything is too good to be true, it usually is.

And the last thing they want to read is a fairy tale. In a newspaper.

- http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-flipside/fairy-tale-7-000-month-cabby-teach-us-072647460.html
 
okok this thread is more important, hahahahahahaha................................
 
okok this thread is more important, hahahahahahaha................................

Buddy..ignore them..let their thread die by itself.. :rolleyes:
 
Cannot be. If the regular sinkie on the street has common sense, they wouldn't get conned by Sunshine Empire lah, Geneva Gold lah, etc. Suckers are born everyday, hard to save everyone if the people in authority never do the work they are expected to do. In this case, factcheck.
 
Cannot be. If the regular sinkie on the street has common sense, they wouldn't get conned by Sunshine Empire lah, Geneva Gold lah, etc. Suckers are born everyday, hard to save everyone if the people in authority never do the work they are expected to do. In this case, factcheck.

Or technocratic dictatorship. :p
 
Cannot be. If the regular sinkie on the street has common sense, they wouldn't get conned by Sunshine Empire lah, Geneva Gold lah, etc. Suckers are born everyday, hard to save everyone if the people in authority never do the work they are expected to do. In this case, factcheck.

The ratio as of last May was 60:40....still more dumbfucks sinkies than smart ones out there
 
Taxis are not free. COE still applies.

I think the biggest obstacle here is, if the taxis are placed in such a position that they are way cheaper to maintain vs getting a private car, what is going to stop a potential car owner from renting a taxi instead of getting his own car???
 
And the last thing they want to read is a fairy tale. In a newspaper

For best fairy tales regarding Sinkie Peasants, the Shit Times is the best story teller of them all..
 
Solly? Simi si techno ship? Sound very happening.

60 million a month? And 720 million a year just in rental collections. Knn, do you know how much is this? I doubt even banks made this kind of bao jia profit. Own boss? Yeah, famiLEE is the own boss.
 
aiyah! this stupid pinoy reporter thought got a juicy story and the editor also thought can porlumpar of the establishment. anyway our ST always 报喜不报忧,瞒天过海。 never read them and never trust what they publish. never buy for many years.
 
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Solly? Simi si techno ship? Sound very happening.

Rule by experts, not useless government scholars, army generals and the masses. For more info, refer to "Germany". :)
 
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Rule by experts, not useless government scholars, army generals and the masses. For more info, refer to "Germany". :)

Merkel is chemist by training. Not relevant to running a government either.

Like India maybe? Manmohan Singh was a bureaucrat with sound understanding of economics. That guy is neoliberal through and through. Good example of technocrat?
 
Taxis are not free. COE still applies.

I think the biggest obstacle here is, if the taxis are placed in such a position that they are way cheaper to maintain vs getting a private car, what is going to stop a potential car owner from renting a taxi instead of getting his own car???

Cost of taxis have to be way way cheaper before potential car owners consider them...cars mean a lot more to sinkies then just as a mode of transport....even for those who buy and use commercial vehicles as a cheaper form personal transport in lieu of a car also wants to drive a nicer looking van....
 
Taxis are not free. COE still applies.

I think the biggest obstacle here is, if the taxis are placed in such a position that they are way cheaper to maintain vs getting a private car, what is going to stop a potential car owner from renting a taxi instead of getting his own car???

Only cheap fuck like you will think of renting a taxi as a 4 wheels personal transport.
 
Taxis are not free. COE still applies.

I think the biggest obstacle here is, if the taxis are placed in such a position that they are way cheaper to maintain vs getting a private car, what is going to stop a potential car owner from renting a taxi instead of getting his own car???


Bro, IMAGE is very important to many people. I don't see many S'poreans wanting to abuse the system. Do they want to arrive in their office driving their own cabs? Do they want to drive their family members around in a taxi? Go chiong arriving in a taxi? While driving a cab is nothing to be shameful, I sense there is still stigma attached.
 
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