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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
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