Why Emigration is Sporns' Best Solution Out of PAPee Demon Clutch

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to Thursday's letter by Mr Anil Bhatia, 'Wealthy and yet unhappy - how come, Singapore?'
There is a systemic flaw in our meritocratic system where we strive to be the best in everything, in meeting wants, in careers, in infrastructure. In the process, our human capital is put through various stress tests from a young age until retirement and even the grave.
The young are put to a stress test the minute they start formal education at primary level with homework and remedial classes. School holidays are filled with more lessons, remedial classes and co-curricular activities for upper secondary students. To gain entry to top junior colleges or polytechnics, students must achieve an aggregate score of eight points or less, compared to 10 to 15 points years earlier. How not to be stressed out?
Young adults struggle with work from demanding bosses who expect 24/7 due diligence from employees. Many in this age group struggle to acquire material wealth at the expense of pro-family, procreation activities. Mature workers worry about job security and those who are retrenched often remain chronically unemployed for a long while. Many in this age group (45 to 55) are most vulnerable, with massive expenses to take care of, such as children's education, housing loans, elderly parents' medical bills and retirement expenses. How to be happy?
The elderly are also vulnerable as their children may fall into the mature age group who are either struggling to maintain their livelihoods or unemployed.
With little financial support from their children, many are forced to work as cleaners or do other manual work with their limited skills. Retirees who have exhausted their Central Provident Fund savings are forced to go back to work with limited scope of employment in the current economic climate.
There is hardly any stage in the human cycle where we can slow down and make an effort to smell the roses in society.
Roland Ang
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[tonychat]

IF you grow up to be an adult and has no idea how to earn money by yourself and just depend on a job, i suggest during the younger times, just bochap the stress test.

You do not need stress to have a job, what so stress about following orders and be a robot.

 

[ashjaw]

I wonder if this Roland Ang is the ROLAND ANG who is a 52 yr old 'O' level holder once held a job that paid $15000? It was mentioned in the other thread.

 

[SamuelStalin]

I do not remember Mr. Roland Ang writing such a heartfelt and articulate article like this when he was having it so good above much of the rest in the good old 90s and even those years of the 00s.

So Roland, don't be a hypocrite. You only cared about yourself from the very beginning. I don't think when you had it good you were grateful to this country and the government nor did you donate part of your wealth to charitable causes and help the needy and underprivileged.

You are the perfect picture and testament of ugly human nature.

I believe that unlike this Mr. Roland people should live upright lives, help the less fortunate and not be two-faced at all.

Those who lived opulent lives and did nothing of the sort especially when it is so much easier compared to others who wanted to but couldn't really go to a similar material extent other than their boundless hearts, are worse than dogs and pigs.