Utility of foreign talents

[mscitw]

Pros for rulers of Peasantpore.

i) Reliable source of levy and increased tax base.
ii) Promote significant consumption increase e.g. housing price hike that benefit public and private rent owners who contribute to tax coffers.
iii) Supply cheap labour to MNCs who simply love peasants who understand and follow headquarters' instructions. SMEs love cheap foreign talent due to their lower pay, humble demands and ability to work overtime for minimal pay.
iv) Undesirable foreign talents or cheap labour could be booted out of Peasantpore without resorting to lengthy show trials that usually impose ruinous fines on regime's embarrassing vocal dissenters.
v) Using newly minted PRs and peasants to label 'local peasants' as ungrateful and singing praises of regime's record as compared to other rent driven basket cases in SEA.

Cons for local peasants
i) Increased resource competition e.g. housing, education, jobs
ii) Decreased electoral leverage since regime could count on loyal new citizens during procedural elections

 

[mscitw]

Same wine, different casket.

"If we delude people into believing that they are poor because there are no Malay rights or because opposition members oppose Malay rights, where are we going to end up? You let people in the kampongs believe that they are poor because we don’t speak Malay, because the government does not write in Malay, so he expects a miracle to take place in 1967 (the year Malay would become the national and sole official language). The moment we all start speaking Malay, he is going to have an uplift in the standard of living, and if it doesn’t happen, what happens then?", LKY, September 1964, Dewan Rakyat.

"If we delude peasants into believing that they are poor and have no jobs because there are no foreign talents or because rulers are poorly paid, where are we going to end up? You let peasants in the heartlands believe that they are poor because they are not as hungry than newcomers, not enterprising as foreign talents, because they have expectation gaps and cannot find jobs, so peasants expects a miracle to take place when foreign talents flood the land or lower their expectations but continue to endure price, tax hikes and well paid rulers. The moment we have big heap of foreign talents, constant price hikes and wealthy rulers, local peasants are going to have an uplift in the standard of living, and if it doesn’t happen, what happens then?",

Answer: Cooling off period, more gerrymandering and mass minting of new 'peasants'.

Now for the FT version.

 

[besotted]

>>> same wine, different casket <<<<<< !!!!!!!!!!!!!

my PRC worker, with his second rate english, will tell you it is "cask"

 

[mscitw]

Your humble peasant apologies for the guffaw?!