否极泰来 means when misfortune reaches the limit, good fortune is at hand.
Selected old postings for GE 2015 旧论新报 2015大选 19http://pijitailai.blogspot.sg/2011/12/high-ministerial-salaries-wrong.html
{The art of making yourself rich, in the ordinary mercantile economic sense, is therefore equally and necessarily the art of keeping your neighbour poor. ….. John Ruskin}
The reasons for paying very high salaries for Singapore
They
assume ministers are super human beings that can work 24 hours a day 7
days a week. They assume these political holders are productive and
efficient every seconds, no sick leave, no emotional problem, like
machines operating without any maintenance. Furthermore, they assume
these people are as enterprise as entrepreneurs, risking and scarifying
their carriers, family and friends.
The
PAP government got the assumptions so wrong that they pay the wrong
salaries to their ministers. If you examine the reasons and
assumptions, they are all wrong. Why wrong?
Perhaps
only a robot can justify for the assumptions of the working conditions
described above. Even that, a robot still needs some maintenance and
definitely, a robot will not have the enterprise spirit of venturing out
and risk powerless to function effectively and efficiently.
Hence,
if you can’t fulfill these assumptions, it is better not to assume high
salaries for the wrong reasons. You have overpriced your intelligence,
capability, productivity, judgments, body and mental condition, and
most importantly your power base.
This
is like the corporate world. The top corporate leaders are pricing
themselves above the market rate, especially in the financial and
property sectors. They think that they are top talents in the world and
so they demand top world class salaries. However, they create crisis
after crisis, debts after debts, and so we see the results of ‘Occupy
Movements’.
To
protect themselves and justify for their top salaries, these CEOs,
CFOs, Chairmen and Presidents have to engage in many PR activities which
are not productive in their works.
To
be fair, we have to differentiate business corporate managers and
entrepreneurs. There are justifications for entrepreneurs getting high
rewards and compensation. Entrepreneurs are taking risks and they may
end up as a bankrupt. This is why people are admiring entrepreneurs
like Bill Gate and are not so against their richness.
The
government is paying high salaries to our ministers. They are only able
to do it because they assume that they have the mandate from the
people. However, the mandate is not always in your favour, and it is
subject to change. Even there is a review in the ministerial salaries;
it may still keep and continue with the wrong assumptions. As a result,
the old problem of high and wrong salaries is still there.
Who
know one day more and more will see the wrong assumption for the wrong
pay. When more and more people disagree with the wrong assumptions of
the PAP, more will like to see the change to take place.
