REACH 440 - What are your views on the Government's approach towards employment resilience? How can we better support Singaporeans in staying employed?
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29 Mar 2023 (10am - 7pm)
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[10:00 am, 29/03/2023] +REACH: ๐ข Topic ๐ข
Speaking at the closing of the Citizen’s Panel on Employment Resilience, on Saturday 25 March, DPM Lawrence Wong said Singapore does not seek to protect jobs as this will hold back the process of innovation. Some jobs will inevitably become obsolete because of technical advancements. However, new jobs offering better productivity and wages will be created in their place.
As such, the Government will redouble efforts to help every Singaporean reskill, upskill and transit more easily to take up new job opportunities. DPM Wong also said in his speech that, unlike many other countries in the world, Singapore possesses a stronger foundation for implementing a system for adult training, skills upgrading and job placement.
๐ฌ What are your views on the Government's approach towards employment resilience? How can we better support Singaporeans in staying employed?
Three considerations for employment resilience include:
๐ Engaging employers:
Employers must be engaged because they are the ones who create jobs in the first place. Employers need to know how they want to grow and transform their business, how to redesign jobs to achieve these goals and what kind of skill sets they need for their jobs of the future.
๐ Engaging training providers:
Singapore needs training providers to work closely with employers and the industry, to understand what employers need and design effective courses that can close the skills gap. They should also maintain high and rigorous standards of training.
๐ Engaging workers:
Singapore possesses a diverse workforce with differing attitudes, capabilities and needs. Given these considerations, Singapore needs to strengthen its SkillsFuture ecosystem, especially in the areas of training and job placement.
๐https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/lawrence-wong-citizens-panel-employment-resilience-protect-workers-not-jobs-3373951
๐https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singapore-s-approach-to-achieve-employment-resilience-must-protect-workers-not-jobs-dpm-wong
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[11:01 am, 29/03/2023] +REACH: Dear Contributors,
We want to HEAR MORE from YOU!
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Megan ๐
[11:04 am, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "Every two years there will always be transformation (change) of tangibles and/or intangibles, something would happen...this coming transformation is about shortening the work time or process and downsizing the workforce in order to achieve a leaner and more profitable outcome for businesses that embrace these digits (AI) in the making...!"
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[11:08 am, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Old age never too late to learn upskill. Old machine turn AI smart worker and more productivity
[11:10 am, 29/03/2023] +Uncle Law: How workers able to stay employed also depends on the biz running cost for the companies such as rental. It had been exponential increasing till a point, in order for company to stay relevant, maybe they need to right size the company head count
[11:12 am, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Will surely able to stay there will be more productivity if AI is useful with human worker.
The world is changed and
China car become AI smart technology.
[11:13 am, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: But human work for 8 hours and AI work for 24hours
[11:13 am, 29/03/2023] +Uncle Law: Some biz if their main profile in service line, they still rely on their employees
[11:14 am, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Asked my boss investment AI smart he want and make short cut time to time. He said will hire less employment ๐ณ
[11:15 am, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "Indeed, the strength of a country does not depend on the size of the population, but on its quality and organisation. The US has only 5 percent of the world s population, much smaller than China and India. But the US is the world's undisputed superpower, not only in the political and economic arenas, but in many other fields. This is because the US has always warmly welcomed foreign talent to its shores..."
- - PM Goh Chok Tong, NDR 18/8/02
[11:16 am, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/2002081805.htm
[11:18 am, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "Solving the Mysteries of Labor?"
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[11:32 am, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Productive
[11:33 am, 29/03/2023] +Ken: Yes we can replace but not everything can be done.. Atleast for now still not cheaply available
[11:34 am, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
1. I have no doubt that our Government is always :-
a. Business-friendly
b. Workers-friendly
--- whereby Government put both business and our workers interest at the forefront.
2. Engaging business, training providers and workers to ensure :-
a. Business buy-in - whereby employers transform their business, produce jobs for workers and determine the skillsets they want.
b. Training providers provide the right skill training to workers for the right jobs.
c. Workers are train with the right skillsets to do the jobs.
3. Hence training, job placement - to put workers into the right business for the right jobs after training ---- become an important feature - for our job landscape going forward --- especially for our fresh graduates, workers changing jobs or mature workers changing or looking for jobs.
[11:35 am, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
4. Important is to work on ---- business buy-in.
a. Notice that a good many organisations will rather hack off mature workers come 50 years and above - to hire fresh graduates or younger workers that possess new skills which is needed by the organisations - rather than training existing workers to be ready for the new jobs.
i. The reason, fresh graduates or younger workers demand lower salaries but yet possess the right skill.
ii. Mature workers though experience and know the way forward to get things done - may not have the new skills to do the newly created or transform jobs - if the organisation don't proactively send mature workers for training - due to the need to fight fire in day-to-day work or don't want to spend money on training courses for their existing workers or allow workers to take time off to attend training courses on new skills.
And mature workers usually are already more highly paid - due to accumulated salary increment over the years.
Hence hacking off mature workers - become a "natural process" - for many organisations.
This is the area whereby Government need to work closely with the organisations to close the gaps - to protect and ensure mature workers are able to reskill and upskill - and prevent mature workers from being hack off.
[11:37 am, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
5. What happen to current mature workers now ---- will in future apply to younger workers of today - if Government are unable to address this "imperative process" with the business ----- because organisations will always look at "profit and loss" --- regardless of whether SMEs, MNCs, and even GLCs.
[11:49 am, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Amid soaring rentals, 7 in 10 firms ready to move expat staff overseas: Survey.
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/amid-soaring-rentals-7-10-firms-ready-move-expats-overseas-2138381
[11:53 am, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
This is another development that government needs to actively look out for and work with them to see what can be done.
MNCs produce high value jobs for our local workforce.
We cannot let the high rental drive them away - as these expat are senior managers that can decide or persuade MNCs to move away from Singapore - if they can't find a place to stay as high rental drive them away.
The organisations no longer subside their high cost of living in Singapore as they are fetching local pay.
[11:53 am, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Singapore as they are fetching local pay.
[0:02 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: MNC in and MNC out
[0:04 pm, 29/03/2023] +Kenneth Lee WM: >We cannot let the high rental drive them away - as these expat are senior managers that can decide or persuade MNCs to move away from Singapore - if they can't find a place to stay as high rental drive them away.
Reduce investment property tax and rentals will drop. Land lords just take the recent property tax increase, *2 and bill to tenants.
[0:06 pm, 29/03/2023] +Poh S. Lim: Some people just have the wrong ideas about AI. AI like robots, have to have utility to humans:
1. Improve productivity
2. Speeds up work and pace
3. Do jobs which are dangerous, monotonous etc.
AI should not replace humans, rather it supplements human capabilities.
[0:06 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
The current MNCs are high value added industries employing very high pay local workers eg. Barclays, UBS, credit Suisse, ASM, Dyson, Any big names we can think of for EU companies.
What about US, China, and other MNCs we can think of even though they are not in EU survey?
They are not immune either.
[0:08 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
https://www.asiaone.com/money/hdb-flat-ang-mo-kio-rented-out-record-high-6500
[0:09 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Rent control act needed!?
[0:09 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ: $6,500 rent.
Expat if fetch local pay at $8,000 - only left $1,500 for their daily necessities - wonder how they survive?
[0:10 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Utter madness
[0:10 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
https://www.asiaone.com/money/3-room-hdb-flat-bidadari-rented-out-4100-unit-just-2-years-old
3-room HDB flat in Bidadari rented out for $4,100, unit just 2 years old.
[0:10 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
3 room flat $4,100.
[0:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Ken: As long as enough justification you can rent out
[0:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Ken: ๐
[0:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: 29 March, 2023
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[0:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Ken: Real or not hard to really follow up on all
[0:12 pm, 29/03/2023] +Kenneth Lee WM: As published in newspapers for people who complain about high prices of BTO flats, there are many choices. Why must choose expensive place when there are cheaper places?
[0:12 pm, 29/03/2023] +Kenneth Lee WM: There's a rental option for every salary range.
[0:13 pm, 29/03/2023] +Kenneth Lee WM: property price will crash ...
[0:18 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Prestige
[0:19 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: And the next cycle of increase starts again
[0:19 pm, 29/03/2023] +Kenneth Lee WM: LOL
[0:22 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Imbalance or balance equal earn income and spent expenses.
How about EP and SP salary level
[0:23 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Inflation affected global and market need to increase price sale gross profit
[0:36 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: 29 March, 2023
Are there better options than rent control measures?
Should the public housings price become unaffordable and harder to reach, there are a few ways out of it.
By shortening the lease from 99 years to 30 years and 50 years. The price of each flat will be priced according to proximity to the city centre and radiates outwardly, regardless of matured or non matured estates.
Fitting the budget? These "shortening" measures will allow more people whether first time buyers or upgraders to access and better afford a flat at any time line, any location and any choices of flat type.
[0:38 pm, 29/03/2023] +~typing: I don't think it just passing on the tax: virtually everyone I know has had rent increases from 40 to 100%.
One friend's landlord wants to increase the rent 100% from $7000 to $14000 essentially because there are identical units in the same condo on propertyguru for that price but 4 of the 12 units are empty and 2 of the occupants are leaving in June ... if my friend leaves that will be 7 of 12 units empty.
[0:39 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Perhaps, this example is of a "co-living" lease?
It may live up to 6 persons ( illegally up to 12 persons).
Do the maths and divide this $6,500...to add more sweets, utilities are included too?
Possible or impossible?
Thank you.
[0:43 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: From $7000 to asking for $14,000!
One, wishful try.
Two, should you succeed to up the rent to $14k, the unintended consequences may be ugly. Illegal overstaying, Airbnb, vices from gambling to prostitution...
Three, this 50% increase in rental is real and has happened in the last 6 months.
Sustainable or sinking?
Thank you.
[0:44 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ: https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/rising-housing-rents-impact-expats-2137706
Expats baulk at rising rents, as some think twice about staying in Singapore amid intensifying global talent war.
[0:45 pm, 29/03/2023] +RH: Mature workers :
A company can provide & wl provide the upskills training needed.
But , the mature worker also must want to learn, want to upgrade.
Some mature workers think : "I'm so old alredi. I know the job. I hv bn here many years. No need to learn anything new since I'm gg to retire soon (? years time)"
Resistance or reluctance by the mature worker to upskill wl also need to be addressed.
It's a double-edged sword.
Employers can add in some ' motivation' to entice the mature worker to want to upskill -- not nec in money terms but in other ways. They hv to 'sell' the idea to the mature worker.
Ther is also a need for mindset change in the mature worker.
[0:45 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
"Singapore tenant slapped with 75% rent increase but landlord said he is giving her a ‘discount’ for being a ‘good tenant’ (Video)"
https://sg.yahoo.com/style/singapore-tenant-slapped-75-rent-092140670.html#:~:text=after%20governor%27s%20killing-,Singapore%20tenant%20slapped%20with%2075%25%20rent%20increase%20but%20landlord%20said%20he%20is%20giving%20her%20a%20%E2%80%98discount%E2%80%99%20for%20being%20a%20%E2%80%98good%20tenant%E2%80%99%20(Video),-Coconuts%20Singapore
[0:47 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/rents-increase-singapore-tenants-alternatives-3245521
I'm so exhausted': Tenants face hard choices as rents surge in Singapore.
Singapore's buoyant rental market shows no signs of slowing down, with rents rising further in the last quarter of 2022.
[0:47 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
https://www.asiaone.com/money/all-time-high-rent-4-room-hdb-flat-hits-record-6200
All-time high: Rent for this 4-room HDB flat hits record $6,200
FEBRUARY 01, 2023
[0:48 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/housing-rent-prices-expats-70-increase-landlords-tenants-3060231
Overwhelmed, defeated': Expats face up to 70% rise in housing rents as prices hit record highs.
Expatriates in Singapore tell CNA about big rent hikes in recent months, with landlords not being open to negotiations and tenants having to overbid in order to secure a place.
[0:48 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "One man's meat is another man's poison...?"
SG is positioned as the HUB for financial stability, Political stability, Social justice and Connecting infrastructures from digital, Sea and Air...
"Simply, no free lunch! Either you see this jewel or go elsewhere and rub and tough it out...!"
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[0:48 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Rental market ‘gone bananas’: Full impact of cooling measures yet to be seen, say analysts and agents.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/housing/rental-market-gone-bananas-full-impact-of-cooling-measures-yet-to-be-seen-say-analysts-and-agents
[0:49 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
So rental is indeed a huge problem.
[0:50 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: The entire global Economics is in the early stage of rebalancing the equilibriums of price, of interest rate, and importantly, of the stubborn inflation!
Thank you.
[0:50 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Happened recently to a malay couple! The tenant had the cheek to ask for advance notice of hdb spot check!
[0:50 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
It could backfire on our jobs if foreign business leave.
[0:51 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: What is the current inflation of UK , US, Japan and EU?
Thank you!
[0:52 pm, 29/03/2023] Smiley face: "One chooses to leave while others are coming in ...the fittings will survive and not the fittest, this round of resetting..."
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[0:53 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
The problem is mass retrenchment happens before others come in.
If we don't solve the current problem now, are we going to wait for mass firing?
[0:54 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "Every 20 years or a new generation in the making, all things will be changed, aka upheavals... nothing new nor fearful about...!"
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[0:54 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
What has these countries inflation got to do with MNCs moving to low cost SE Asia?
[0:55 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Yah wait till you lose your job.
[0:55 pm, 29/03/2023] +Kenneth Lee WM: The other big increase to landlord is loan interest rate. From near 0% to 5%+. All these increases *2, pass down to tenants.
But because this is an open market free supply/demand, tenants will not renew their contracts or go somewhere cheaper, the high priced rental units will be forced to drop prices else it will be in danger of being vacant and a new balance will emerge.
[0:55 pm, 29/03/2023] Smiley face: Massive retrenchment will come only if the external economies COLLAPSE and the prices of all goods and services devalued to 50% or greater... ANYTHING lesser will be transitional and transformational!"
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Thank you
[0:56 pm, 29/03/2023] +~typing: I know quite a few people who moved from Hong Kong to Singapore two years ago who are now moving back.
Problem for many expat families is the combination of significantly increased rents at the same time as recent MOM rule changes which no longer allow the spouse to work, so they are facing significantly increased expense at the same time as reduced income.
Many MNCs, banks, law firms, accountants have offices in HK and SG but their expat staff do regional work (e.g. Thailand, Phillipines, Vietnam etc) and therefore their staff don't have to be in SG, they can be in HK, BKK etc.
[0:56 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Massive retrenchment happens, when business pull out.
[0:57 pm, 29/03/2023] +~L: Many tenants have to renew because all prices go up and the cost of moving is high (need deposit and advance rent) and also disruptive if near to (schools, work, family)
[0:57 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Migrational trends...
Stability is key for all economic activities!
[0:58 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: What are the current rentals ( commercial to residential) in HK or Shanghai?
Thank you
[0:59 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "staying away and further from the "Volcano" will yield peace of mind..."
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Volcano is referring to...?
[0:59 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
During the 1990s can't remember the exact year - when our wage cost increases due to high CPF - many businesses pull out of Singapore.
At that time, government scramble to lower CPF and cut wages.
If we see something big coming and not doing things leaving to chance - then you will experience the consequences before you talk about philosophy.
[1:01 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Did SG survive or survives?
What are the key attributes to this survival? From the Asian financial crise 1996 to 2006?
Who emerged stronger and how many casualties of this big wave of clearing?
Thank you.
[1:01 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Rental prices in Singapore surpass Hong Kong, the world’s most expensive housing market.
https://theindependent.sg/rental-prices-in-singapore-surpass-hong-kong-the-worlds-most-expensive-housing-market/
[1:02 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: And how about 2008 melt down?
[1:03 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Wait till you lose your job then you can sing your philosophy.
I am alerting government to take action before any mishap happen.
I don't share your philosophy.
[1:04 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Ist happiness...why so?
"No fools will place their money into an unstable pit and sit out waiting to be blown away..."
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So others saw trash while some saw it as a treasure?
Thank you.
[1:04 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
I have seen enough of many people suffering when they lose their jobs.
[1:06 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: 2nd happiness...that is
"Money comes and money will flow... that's the dynamic of monetary policy since 1946...unless the US$ is sunk and became an OLD WORLD ORDER and a NEW WORLD ORDER emerges, it will take up to 10 years to decide and fight it out! No free lunch!"
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Thank you.
[1:07 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Will China replace USD?
[1:07 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "Jobs died and new jobs will be created... either you find new ones (upskill or reskill or accept losses and retires) or you find your own path...."
[1:10 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Tell those people who have loss their jobs and family waiting to put food on their table.
See what they say to you.
Not responding to your post after this.
[1:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Hi Frankie, good afternoon!
"You are pushing anonymity to the chopping board, either the CIA or the Red Butterfly will hack anonymity...."
The Answer is obvious, what is SG$ exchange rates on par with the UD$ (1:1), maybe or may not necessarily be?
Never says impossible but it may be impossible!
Thank you Frankie for pushing it ..!
[1:13 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: You mean the yen!?
[1:15 pm, 29/03/2023] +Kenneth Lee WM: I think once the residential buildings that under construction complete in a couple of years time, the rents will start drop. Now there is not enough living spaces. Many people chasing few livable spaces. I'm sure gov is aware of this but just need to wait it out and give the processes, time to complete.
In a recent 1M65 youtube podcast, it was reported that huge number of wealthy Chinese are desperately fleeing China and taking root in Singapore. Overall, this good for our economy but in the short term, with limited living spaces, existing tenants need to compete with them.
[1:16 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: China is using its vast reserves of rare mineral earth. Russia is buying hoardes of goal for the past 25 years or more! Certain Arab countries have started transactions in yen. So, alternative currency and payment in the works to match or dethroned the Usd.
[1:18 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: 3rd happiness... responding to a fierce response...
"If you are hungry, you will be angry...if you are desperate for a job, you will seek all ways to land a job just to sustain your livelihoods and if you stagnate and blame others or the economic system of change,... perhaps you will be the biggest casualty of the transformation and these changes happen to come every 20 years! Just when you think you are safe, your next generation will face new changes, ...like starting all over again and again...can we see it or are we in the state of frustrations, anxiously and angry?"
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Thank you.
[1:20 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Hi Andrew, good analysis!
The one big fear or game changer is Saudi Oil and US$!
What Nixon did is to peg oil with the dollars!
Should this pegging decouple, you may be right...and Frankie too?
Thank you.
[1:21 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Iran and the big boys....
Wait, long essay coming....
[1:23 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: 4 July, 2022
"All trades have three keys that is currency, banks, route - land or sea or air, and the rest are negotiations and benefits...!"
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"The Old Game of Trades or Treats or Tricks"
The Persian, after more than 200 years of waiting, the Russians will have another golden chance of a breakthrough bypassing the Suez Canal, a direct link into the Indian Ocean.
Possibly, the most dangerous scenario would be a collaboration between China, Russia and Iran which concluded days ago in Beijing!
This collation is a reminiscence of the once Sino-Soviet era. This assess of the Indian Ocean dated back to the early 19th century, to be exact in 12 January of 1830. The rivary between the Russians and the British empire. The British went all out to …
[1:38 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Having written such a lengthy essay, minted history and analysis.
Are there threats to our SG Petro chemical and Tuas Mega Port and lastly our relevance and livelihoods?
The answer is NO SWEAT! ( "connecting" many complex dots in deriving the answer!)
Thank you.
[1:43 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Anonymous. Er was IUSD pegged to price of oil?
[1:47 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Pls check the term "petrol dollar"
Thank you, Jimmy!
[1:48 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Henry Kissinger brokered the deal as NSA chief to keep the house of Saad in power.
[1:50 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Compromising the Iranians?
Can we preliminary conclude that perhaps The centuries old Iran was supposed to be the Crown Jewel of the Middle East?
People changed and things changed too!
The key is " in any decision (small or strategic), there will always be a reason (s)...."
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Thank you, Andrew for bringing it up!
[1:52 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Who's Henry?
What was his first dissertation about and the subsequents?
Thank you.
[1:52 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: REASON OR REASONS.
thank you.
[1:54 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Our Tuas Mega Port is a great STRATEGIC decision.... likewise for our Jurong Island and LNG too...
What are the reasons for the two closely synergies and synthesizing too?
Reasons?
Thank you, Andrew!
[1:56 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: One sure thing, it was thought through in the 1990s!
That's 3 decades of planning, foresightedness, bravery and know how's!
"No Sweat", today!
Thank you!
[1:57 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "Will someone kindly share it with Mr Leong and Mr Singh....!'
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Thank you
[1:59 pm, 29/03/2023] +REACH: ๐ข Topic ๐ข
Speaking at the closing of the Citizen’s Panel on Employment Resilience, on Saturday 25 March, DPM Lawrence Wong said Singapore does not seek to protect jobs as this will hold back the process of innovation. Some jobs will inevitably become obsolete because of technical advancements. However, new jobs offering better productivity and wages will be created in their place.
As such, the Government will redouble efforts to help every Singaporean reskill, upskill and transit more easily to take up new job opportunities. DPM Wong also said in his speech that, unlike many other countries in the world, Singapore possesses a stronger foundation for implementing a system for adult training, skills upgrading and job placement.
๐ฌ What are your views on …
[2:14 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
MNCs employ more than half Singaporeans in workforce.
46% senior level are employed by MNCs.
So it is very significant - as many of such jobs are high paying jobs.
Anything happens to MNCs - will have significant impact to our job labour market as well as to our economy.
[2:15 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Possibly and most welcome
[2:16 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Great foresight by our government with assistance from both locally and internationally.
[2:17 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: ๐ณ๐๐๐
[2:17 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Also many of our SMEs and even GLCs have supporting functions to these MNCs - either as suppliers or business partners.
If MNCs pull out enmass - SMEs and our GLCs are not immune - which also could impact jobs in the SMEs and GLCs.
[2:17 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Former U.S. Secretary of State and one time National Security Advisor.
[2:18 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Good breakdown!
Thank you, Danny!
[2:19 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: 30% are more Senior in rank or pay, private sector!
This is one Key group that needs further investigations and standby for the future changes in their employability...
Thank you.
[2:21 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Is true, everyone and once in a while, we all need to update and to educate ourselves! ( Before "they" start to speak about this and that...?)
Thank you, Andrew!
[2:23 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: One darling sweetness is that Our MFA, MTI and MOM are in good contact and Buddy Buddy relationships with our MNCs!
Isn't this PR and Diplomacy in playing?
Thank you, Danny for bringing it up!
[2:29 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "Life after life! The past, now and the future are interrelated. And now, money, trades, technologies and unintended consequences are four organisms of this digital ecosystem. So what's the future be, from neolithic to egalitarianism and onto socialism? There will be a big change to the entire spectrum of the human and earth ecosystems (since the last 150 million years) and how fast these changes will be and human adaptability, it's really hard to predict because it will be highly complex, these interrelated changes!"
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Reflect and think deeper than this long passage... thank you!
[2:31 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "Solving the Mysteries of Labor (jobs)?"
[2:35 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Chinese wealth is rushing into the Southeast Asian city-state, prompting unease among some locals..
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/3/27/chinas-rich-flee-crackdowns-for-asias-switzerland-singapore
[2:38 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: The Job!..Nursery rhymes of the day?
Here it goes...
1 2 ,...buckle your shoes
3 4,.. back to the work floor
5 6,.. solving many mistakes
7 8,.. everyday seems like a headache
9 10, time to end... (the day)!
Anonymity
[2:40 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Hi Jimmy, thanks for sharing this news!
The old Swiss bank is having trouble?
The new "sweet" bank is having a boom town charlie rounds!
Which place will you put your big money into?
Thank you again!
[3:05 pm, 29/03/2023] +REACH: Dear Contributors
We want to HEAR MORE from you!
๐ฌ What are your views on the Government’s approach towards employment resilience? How can we better support Singaporeans in staying employed?
We have had good feedback and hope that we can keep the discussion robust and active!
Megan ๐
[3:05 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: I think alot depends on the global situation
[3:06 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Alot of our jobs are dependent on foreign investment and companies
[3:06 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Feedback and backfeed...
[3:06 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: How can we stay neutral and get investment by both brics and the west
[3:06 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Rough waters ahead :(
[3:07 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Yes, a narrow path...without agitating or offending others, all are inter related!
Thank you, Fulgrim for this important question!
[3:09 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: It's all about BENEFITS AND WHO BENEFITING FROM WHO AND WHOM WITHOUT COMPROMISING INTO THE NEXT 3 NATIONS !
There may be a greater need to renegotiate all/part of FTA cos of the divided power and order!
[3:13 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Relations and diplomacy matter most, going forward!
"Don’t make enemies. Avoid stepping on other people’s toes which is quite a norm in business and corporate world. People who do this will not last long. People who take short-cuts will have their success short lived. People say sometimes this can’t be avoided. That’s a lie. Under all circumstances, stay away from it, no adversity, please..."
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Thanks, Fulgrim!
[3:15 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Diplomacy can be tricky with giving up and taking less to ease tension and conflict.
[3:18 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Hi Andrew, good pointers and often Blindspot for bosses, diplomats and laymen!
" Be true to yourself, your causes and don't be persuaded by fear nor foolishness, people will sense you!...the more you think crooked, so will the walk path and the rest of the devils follow suit...?"
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Thanks, Andrew!
[3:20 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Walking on the Sunshine path or peddling at back ally of darkness?
The problem with this dark ally, there is no exit nor light at the end...?
Thank you.
[3:23 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: TRUST must be earned!
This invincible force will be the callings of tomorrow!
Trusting each other and things may proceed or start wasting precious lifetime fixing things which are unnecessarily!
G to G, B to B, G to C to B !
Thank you!
[3:25 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Increasingly the narrow path is getting narrower. The us has an attitude of either with them ot against them ( famously said by junior bush)
[3:26 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: U see, even we have to limit tik tok on gahmen devices
[3:34 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Most welcome
[3:34 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Yes
[3:34 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: ๐๐๐
[3:36 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Hi Fulgrim, glad you brought up this common heated and mystified point!
" When politicians say and act...(ๆฟๅฎข่จๅ่ก) businessmen will act otherwise... don't be persuaded nor bluff by " either one of them"..., Remain very STEADY and importantly have a STEADY hands and stay CALM!"
THANK YOU, FULGRIM!
[3:38 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: We need you and do many of us in this chat to find ways out the "forest of chaos and the turbulence time"!
Please do it, thanks, Andrew!
[3:40 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: One more essay that is related to the above (ๆฟๅฎข่จๅ่ก) "don't be persuaded nor bluff by them"?
Please try to think deeper this historical happenings...the past, the present and the future!
Thank you.
[3:42 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: 21 March, 2023
Who needs who most?
In the seige of Leningrad, Roosevelt lend help to Stalin that changed the course and history of WW2. More than one million people died of starvation in the longest seige of WW2, the Nazi encircled Leningrad for 872 days.
Roosevelt supplied enroute from the Arctic part of Russia, that was the key for Stalin revival and subsequently unblocked the Nazi strategy.
One thing was Stalin hold on and did not accept Roosevelt help only after Stalin gotten the benefits from the US assess to Europe. Russia was at the losing end, war was still in progress. Roosevelt finally agreed to Stalin demands of "post war Europe territorial rights" and the rest was history!
In the latest Xi-Putin meeting, perhaps who needs who most (appease…
[3:44 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: The controversy is whether Russia would have worn if the us did not help and I think they can. Their country is huge and they can trade territory for time to rearm and requip. It is the graveyard of invaders. Look at Napoleon . Lol
[3:44 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Pls do not circulate or anonymity will perish,...kidding!
Thank you.
[3:44 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: In any case, we are especially vulnerable . We don't even have enough resources to feed or support ourselves . And I fear we will be drawn in
[3:45 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Napoleon, too GREEDY!
Stalin is cunning, so is Putin! It's in Russian DNA and bloodline!
[3:45 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Straits of Malacca is a strategic point for oil and other imports to China. That's partially why they do the one belt one road to have an overland route. Also the proposed kra canal at thailand
[3:46 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "Strategic competition (critical moments) is not a ping pong match, not a rallying of the ping pong ball between two players...no ambiguity, it's WAR!"
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[3:46 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: The us has bases here in Singapore and they can easily blockade Chinese ships , what happens to Singapore then. Can we say we are neutral and you cannot do this from our bases ? Don't think the us is gonna care . Lol
[3:46 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Wait they deactivate all our missiles and f35 remotely ๐คฃ
[3:46 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: That's why the Kra Canal will not materilised and our Tuas Mega Port is safe and safer, going forward...
Thank you!
[3:47 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Yah , I know we torpedoing it
[3:47 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: But we have assure china we won't take sides or else they will still try to push it through
[3:48 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Hi FULGRIM,
What if our Changi Naval Base becomes a strategic boombing target for whatsoever adversary?
Thank you.
[3:48 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: I would say it is already a target. Because it's big enough to take us aircraft carriers
[3:48 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: If conflict comes. How can we maintain neutral
[3:49 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Paper tiger...playing
[3:49 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Can we even evict the us or say we neutral. Don't base your ships here
[3:49 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Where is Changi airport located?
Thank you.
[3:49 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Paper tiger or not, we ikan bilis
[3:49 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: No and never will!
Balancing the power base!
Thank you.
[3:49 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: ?
[3:50 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Next to Changi Naval Base...
Thank you.
[3:50 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: All I m saying , this is a difficult and dangerous game .
[3:50 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: So?
[3:50 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "killing 2 golden goose with one mission.... good deal!"
Thank you.
[3:50 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Lol
[3:51 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Plus Hendon camp as a bonus ๐คฃ
[3:51 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Once you do, you might as well do it all!
[3:51 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Hope never comes to that
[3:51 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Supply chain all behenti, stop!
[3:51 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Just the economic fallout alone
[3:51 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: We will die
[3:52 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Die slowly!
[3:52 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Or as LKY said
[3:52 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Rejoin Malaysia ๐คฃ
[3:53 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "you see, in any big world, is about seizing another country's valuable assets with the least distruction so that you can turn around and make full use of these free assets...?"
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[3:54 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: You laugh ..
Pls start counting the flag and the strips... you won't laugh, any longer...
Thank you!
[3:55 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Tunku Abdul Rahman, said...
[3:58 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Will do my level best.
[3:58 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: don't think we are small fish?...( jangan fikir kita ikan kecil?)
Thank you...(terima kasih)
[3:58 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Agree
[3:59 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Cost is too enormous!
[3:59 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Cheers, Andrew!
We all need each other to strive for a better future for our next generations...
Thank you.
[4:00 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Our PM already hinted that we have to eventually choose sides.
[4:01 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: We cannot handle a dominant China in the South China Sea
[4:01 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Besides costing to build the kra!
One key consideration is the islands of Nicobar in the Indian Ocean!
Once blocked, what's the usefulness of the Kra?
Myanmar port is useful, so far and no blockade at the Nicobar!
So can we all SEE that our strategic locale is?
Thank you!
[4:01 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Yes
[4:02 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Should It happen, ...
What about our Petra Blanca?
Let's think deeper!
Interrelated!
Thank you.
[4:02 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: This history between Japan ๐ฏ๐ต and Nazi start at same time ww2
[4:02 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Nazi is most horror and cruelty
[4:02 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Buddy Buddy tried to meet in the Middle of Asia...just Napoleon!
Thank you.
[4:03 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Don't discount the polar bears!
[4:04 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Day time befriends with this...and evening accompanies the other...?
Possible? Boleh lah!
[4:04 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Probably that's why the belt and road is the other alternative . Overland routes to Europe and other north Asian countries . The sea route is hard due to the size of the us navy
[4:04 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Interesting question is who will the us keep its war machine paid if there is a world war. Print money but who will still buy it's debt?
[4:05 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Yes, FULGRIM!
If the sea routes are blocked, you go land Routes into central Asia (all the "Tans" nations)!
So what about turkey?
Thank you!
[4:05 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Collect taxpayer
[4:06 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Just print more!
[4:06 pm, 29/03/2023] +REACH: ๐ข Topic ๐ข
Speaking at the closing of the Citizen’s Panel on Employment Resilience, on Saturday 25 March, DPM Lawrence Wong said Singapore does not seek to protect jobs as this will hold back the process of innovation. Some jobs will inevitably become obsolete because of technical advancements. However, new jobs offering better productivity and wages will be created in their place.
As such, the Government will redouble efforts to help every Singaporean reskill, upskill and transit more easily to take up new job opportunities. DPM Wong also said in his speech that, unlike many other countries in the world, Singapore possesses a stronger foundation for implementing a system for adult training, skills upgrading and job placement.
๐ฌ What are your views on …
[4:06 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Turkey is part of NATo but think it's a love hate relationship with the west . Lol
[4:06 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Debt reserve go up over the year and trillion dollars
[4:06 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Central Bank Digital Currency...
Executive order 14067...
[4:07 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Order 66 ๐
[4:07 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: GDP = Debt nation
[4:08 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: It will be.
[4:08 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Case FED is likely hike next session
[4:09 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Agree
[4:09 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Thank you, Andrew!
[4:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Which nation is debt free?
[4:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: No one but who print money like no tomorrow
[4:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Hahaha
[4:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Singapore ๐
[4:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Us military ask for budget machiam like no limit one
[4:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: And become worthless eventually!?
[4:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Heng we have no central bank
[4:12 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Our founding fathers early on reject the idea of a central bank ( aka print money ๐ฐ)
[4:12 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Great foresight
[4:12 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Actually, the us founding fathers were against it also
[4:12 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: In constitution
[4:12 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: But it was ignored ๐คฃ
[4:12 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: They only remember the guns only ๐
[4:13 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: To tune of being 46 trillion in debt currently!
[4:13 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Before it's worthless... what will happen first, foremost?
Thank you.
[4:16 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Ask the rest of the world to buy it's debt lor
[4:16 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Lol
[4:16 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Thats why brics moving away from USD is the big threat to them
[4:16 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: No tik tok ๐คฃ
[4:16 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Not the Chinese, Russian, Arabs!
[4:16 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Saudi esp. once oil is no longer sold in USD
[4:16 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: GG
[4:17 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Though I think USA will be " liberating" Saudi soon ๐
[4:17 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: If they tried that
[4:17 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: The fulcrum is India and the Indian Ocean!
China and even Japan and Korea needs the passage for oil, export and import!
[4:18 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: India will prob see whichever gives it the most advantage
[4:18 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: It's part of brics yet also part of western alliance to contain china
[4:19 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Yen!,
[4:19 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Military wise!
[4:20 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: A wish!
[4:20 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: Any currency pegged to gold pls
[4:21 pm, 29/03/2023] +Ken: Many.. just what is the percentage of it
[4:22 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Venezuela too!
[4:22 pm, 29/03/2023] +Fulgrim: I know, I m just saying the next global currency should be pegged to gold
[4:35 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: By right is gold and by left is digital.
Thank you
[4:36 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Russia announced since the invasion of Ukraine that the rubles Wil be pegged to gold. With such a regime would you trust? One might fall from the balcony haha
[4:39 pm, 29/03/2023] +Yinnia New: I can do fast work for 8 hr until by at 8am to 5.30pm end work or nt
[4:40 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Think like a Money changer, and you will get it...
Thank you
[4:41 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Hi Yinnia!
[4:43 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: But every Singapore Dollar we printed is backed by assets gold, silver, USD , can , Reminbi etc. we got sound fiscal policies
[4:43 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Yes
[4:44 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Old world order!
"You see, I use my shein and Xiaomi in exchange for your oil/gold/etc...
I turn around with your oil and exchange yours with others for other goods....?"
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[4:48 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: What govt desire for the workers to up skill and be ready is good. I thinks the challenge is leadership and collaboration
[4:48 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: One interesting point to tickle some folks...
What if nations start offloading the US bonds till more than 50% mark?
What will happen to the dollars?
Thank you.
[4:48 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Let me share an incident lately
[4:48 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Agree
[4:49 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: My cpf investment holdings have been liquidated
[4:49 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: By yourself!?
[4:50 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Nope
[4:50 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: I went to the local bank to inquire. a investment sales person tried to help
[4:51 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: The one that I opened the investment account treats ago
[4:51 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Got conned by a amateur!?
[4:51 pm, 29/03/2023] +Yinnia New: We go to at Bedok polycyclic on April , l am only diabetes , how?
[4:52 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: She says not her job and I told her politely that she represent the bank.
[4:53 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: She checked with her Manager, he refered to the svc mgr the reply is to ask cpf
[4:54 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Good that earlier I went to CPF. Cpf says refer to bank
[4:54 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Hi Yinnia,
Pls go polyclinic soon and get your medicines.
Take care! Thank you!
[4:56 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: When told svc Manager ask the sales person to handle because they're busy
[4:57 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: ๆฟ่ฏ dapatkan ubat anda
[4:57 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ: https://fortune.com/2023/03/27/recession-2023-layoffs-tech-finance-unemployment-outlook-fed-rates-murray-sabrin/
[4:57 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Their attitude is to "Siam" and delegate
[4:59 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Bad leadership attitude begets bad work attitude and bad attitude lead to the fall of the local bank.
[5:00 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Does the licence to sell insurance products absolve the bank of any liability?
[5:01 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: I am assuming the smart ones retirees and the bad managers takes over pushing work away
[5:02 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Yes. There's a clause to say your have to check and inform them of discrepancies within 14 days (new) one month for existing
[5:03 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Beyond that, too bad!
[5:03 pm, 29/03/2023] +Yinnia New: I want go pay new DSB cheque book How much DSB cheque is it?
[5:04 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Anyway I am sad the state of banking in Singapore is declining. Maybe my anecdotal experience
[5:04 pm, 29/03/2023] +Yinnia New: How much cost pay DSB cheque book is it?
[5:05 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Please check all your investments and data. Make sure all in order
[5:06 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Last time 1 cheque book $10. Now I don't know.
Treasury member - free.
[5:07 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: LKY says is true integrity very important and critical. Without it we're nobody. Look at US on the Iraq war and Trumps lying
[5:07 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
You must apply for a current account in order to have cheque book.
$2 charge every month.
[5:08 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Sgd50.00
[5:08 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Huh serious?
Now $50?
[5:09 pm, 29/03/2023] +REACH: Dear Contributors
We want to HEAR MORE from you!
๐ฌ What are your views on the Government’s approach towards employment resilience? How can we better support Singaporeans in staying employed?
We have had good feedback and hope that we can keep the discussion robust and active!
Megan ๐
[5:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Govt should look Into value training to
[5:11 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Dotard might make a comeback 2024 if court and prison elude him.
[5:14 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: Do the right thing and to take responsibility
[5:17 pm, 29/03/2023] +Yinnia New: I will go pay cash $3000 by deposit it at Bedok DSB or nt
[5:17 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: With the push on going paperless and digital, cheque book is discouraged while online payment is being promoted.
[5:18 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Using singpass is secure on official bank app.
[5:18 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Can do swift fund transfer or paynow.
[5:18 pm, 29/03/2023] +Yinnia New: Hv provide recipient deposit at Bedok DSB or nt
[5:22 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: DBS app dowm
[5:23 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Too long since I first noticed!
[5:23 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
I can go in just now.
[5:23 pm, 29/03/2023] +Frankie Wee: Waiting so long I itch need online purchase
[5:23 pm, 29/03/2023] ☸️ Danny ๅฟ:
Use D2pay if making payment.
[5:34 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: "For the US to continue to act successfully abroad, it must restore the domestic foundations of its power. Improving the lives of ordinary Americans is of secondary importance; what matters to the foreign policy elite is preserving America's capacity to shape events around the globe...Instead, the paramount feature of international relations in the first half of the twenty-first century is nonpolarity; power has been diffused, spread among an enormous list of entities capable in their own right to exert their influence."
- - Richard N. Haass "Foreign Policy Begins at Home 2013"
[5:42 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: I think America is beyond recovery
[5:43 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Hi Andrew, previous weeks, you asked to bring it on...
Ok, chapter 1 of the longer essay coming... enjoy the reading!
Thank you!
[5:44 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: 7 March, 2023
"Hard and Soft Power: The Reality of Idealogy, Freedom and Values"
"Life after life! The past, now and the future are interrelated. And now, money, trades, technologies and unintended consequences are four organisms of this digital ecosystem. So what's the future be, from neolithic to egalitarianism and onto socialism? There will be a big change to the entire spectrum of the human and earth ecosystems (since the last 150 million years) and how fast these changes will be and human adaptability, it's really hard to predict because it will be highly complex, these interrelated changes!"
- - anonymity
The Big Picture?
Commonwealth or Common Prosperity or Common Good?
What are the developments in terms of economics, social, political and tech…
[5:59 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Apologies if any typo error, all essays are carefully typed into this simple OPPO phone and saved in the notes...no big screen computer!
" Using simple and cheaper tool to the fullest...?"
Thank you.
[6:01 pm, 29/03/2023] +Rama: Their domestic politics is a shamble which translate to a joke of a government.
[6:01 pm, 29/03/2023] +REACH: ๐ข Topic ๐ข
Speaking at the closing of the Citizen’s Panel on Employment Resilience, on Saturday 25 March, DPM Lawrence Wong said Singapore does not seek to protect jobs as this will hold back the process of innovation. Some jobs will inevitably become obsolete because of technical advancements. However, new jobs offering better productivity and wages will be created in their place.
As such, the Government will redouble efforts to help every Singaporean reskill, upskill and transit more easily to take up new job opportunities. DPM Wong also said in his speech that, unlike many other countries in the world, Singapore possesses a stronger foundation for implementing a system for adult training, skills upgrading and job placement.
๐ฌ What are your views on …
[6:07 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: One thing, pls pass on to our IMDA...
On issues of hacking, coding and security protocol!
Harmonic
Modulate
Amplitude
Synthesize
These four variables will identify key areas of loopholes, penetration and defence!
Thank you.
[6:10 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Whale language, is one pioneering research of comm, of coding and unique language too.
Thank you!
[6:24 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: One (secret), Craig Venter and Francis Collins not revealed is organic and synthesis!
The genome code breakers (Nobel winners) aka helix of life and death can be modulated and amplified as a means to code and decode inside the super computer which was (still is WIP) done and broke through!
Keys are organic, code and decode! These are interrelated variables of planet Earth!
Thank you.
[6:25 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Stop thinking of computers, digits and logic as fixed! It is NOT!
[6:46 pm, 29/03/2023] +REACH: Dear Contributors,
⏰ We will be closing the chat in 15 minutes ⏰
Thank you very much for being part of our WhatsApp chat and participating actively.
Goodnight!
Megan ๐
[6:48 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Lower-wage young workers face challenges with job mobility and training: NUS study
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/lower-wage-young-workers-face-challenges-with-job-mobility-and-training-nus-study
[6:50 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: New Disney cruise ship to set sail from Singapore from 2025
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/consumer/new-disney-cruise-ship-to-set-sail-from-singapore-from-2025
Another STAR !
[6:54 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Hi Wai Xin! Sorry for the typo error!
[6:54 pm, 29/03/2023] +Jimmy Chew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYD00nsm7-A
[6:54 pm, 29/03/2023] +Wai Xin: this is a very timely article. indeed we need to encourage the population and support them in long-term continuous learning.
and those in gig-industry such as Grab delivery will be severely impacted as robotics and drones will eventually displace them. As they get older with more commitments, they will face even greater inertia. All these are compounding factors that can result in them trap in the low earning ceiling.
the downside on the hand is we run the risk of a lot of poorly delivered training program which only benefits the provider from all the grant and subsidy. within the training providers, there are already some noise about how some schools just don't deliver people with better skillset.
I think some of those government funded programs in the…
[6:54 pm, 29/03/2023] +Wai Xin: no worries, and hello!
[6:55 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Exceptional views! Thank you, Wai Xin!
[6:55 pm, 29/03/2023] +Wai Xin: thank you. just sharing my observations and what I heard :)
[6:56 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Pls continue to engage and share your thoughts! We all learn...
Thank you!
[6:57 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: Pls critic this longer essay, coming now... thank you.
[6:57 pm, 29/03/2023] +Smiley face: 29 March, 2023
To: Our Distinguished Leaders, Experts, Academia, and All Honorable Members
"Every twenty years there will always be transformation (change) of tangibles and/or intangibles, something would happen...this coming transformation is about shortening the work time or restructuring the process or downsizing the workforce in order to achieve a leaner and more profitable outcome for businesses who embrace these digits (AI) and new ways in the making...!"
- - anonymity
"Solving the Mysteries of Labor?"
Changes (aka Transforms)
Time after time and generation over generation...
Now, it is upmost urgent to identify the key Sectors and specific Jobs that will likely be (30% chances of attrition) affected by the transformation and new ways of wor…
[7:00 pm, 29/03/2023] +REACH: Dear Contributors,
We will be closing the chat for today.
Thank you very much for being part of our WhatsApp chat and participating actively.
Goodnight!
Megan ๐
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