Comments by "Zhi Han Lee" (@lzh4950) on "How the Rich Ate South Korea" video.

1 of my university lecturers used Park's impeachment to warn us against skipping his lectures (because apparently the scandal that led to the impeachment was 1st discovered when a undergrad in Korea was wondering how the daughter of Park's friend managed to score 'A' in a module despite skipping some lectures, which should've been impossible there. So there was suspicion of cronyism)
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@starzies Also realised how differently different media outlets portrayed the accident e.g. Singapore's CNA said most of the coast guards sent to the scene weren't trained in diving (e.g. into the sinking ferry to rescue more passengers) & thus could only ride in boats to rescue/pluck out passengers who managed to swim out of the ferry & float on the water, while a NY media outlet claimed the coast guard was obsessed with assembling cameras for the rescue operation so as to generate positive PR & ended up not committing enough manpower to the rescue itself
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Have seen peer pressure in my country also meaning things like your friends accusing you of being stingy & inconsiderate because you don't want to shell out more money for a bigger data plan, & thus you would want to wait till you get home (where there's Wi-Fi, so that you can conserve data usage) after a night out of them before uploading/sharing the wefies you took together, instead of uploading/sharing on the spot before going home, & thus your friends have to wait longer to see the wefies
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I'm guessing they think what they do e.g. gaslighting will just toughen you up, & thus its condoned, while more senior staff having experienced this too previously might thus feel little incentive to have it easier for the more junior staff now (which I heard also explains the inertia to shift away from, say, the whopping 30h long shifts that doctors in my country sometimes face)
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@ihl0700677525 Relying more on the invisible hand could also mean greater de-industralisation of countries/territories as they become more developed due to rising costs, which I think was what happened with HK (on the other hand SG had more gov't intervention e.g. with the state strategising which types of industries to focus on & developing more partnerships between factories, research institutes & universities/polytechnics). A disadvantage then is that the economy could become less diverse so there're be more students of more types of diploma/degree courses that find themselves with less jobs to find
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@ihl0700677525 I'm guessing transitioning a country's jobs to being the "architect who design things" from being " the worker who build the thing" might also need some gov't involvement e.g. having research institutes as well as tertiary institutions to educate students/workers with the added skills needed, otherwise upscaling might lead to a more service-dependent economy e.g. HK & London are centred more on finance with less career opportunities in, say, engineering than, say, Singapore I think
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@ihl0700677525 That I think also depends on exactly how much funding a gov't provides for the industry, like maybe enough to maintain an industry as a certain though maybe smaller % of the economy so as to preserve an economy's existing diversity & thus resilience (e.g. Singapore has maintained its secondary industries as ~20% of its GDP), while its probably another thing to pump more funding to try to be dominant
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@thetigerii9506 As a citizen there I'd say a difference for Singapore is that our big businesses are either mostly government-founded & linked (via the gov't investment companies Temasek Holdings & GIC, similar to Qatar's QIA) or foreign MNCs, so the gov't isn't subject to much political lobbying. Relying more on foreign investment e.g. the MNCs to grow the economy meant both that you'd need to eradicate corruption (to attract them) & provide favourable working conditions e.g. lower corporate taxes (though some other taxes are high), more agreeable labour unions (likely made more possible after the gov't, somewhat opportunistically, took more control of them after some bus driver unions caused riots in ~1955). So we sometimes get told things like that we "must understand" that we "don't deserve" a pay rise because we haven't been more productive (but meanwhile such a conditional arrangement has been rejected in other countries e.g. by protesters campaigning for higher minimum wages in the USA). So citizens often aim 'higher' when it comes to occupations e.g. favouring white collar more strongly over blue collar jobs (as they're seen as getting less protection), & it also happens that many people working in jobs more likely to be unionized e.g. blue collar ones are immigrants, who're banned from unions also. Think our former PM also accused staff of our national airline of treason when they went on strike previously, & thus had them deported. & you could more easily fight against calls for more work-life balance with warnings like that we'd become uncompetitive, that our foreign investors e.g. MNCs could always pack up & leave, that other countries/competitors are always waiting by to "gobble up our fish", or when our PM previously countered by saying something like "But our immigrants from less developed countries aren't asking for work-life balance though"
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@kevinavila9489 Am from another country where my parents also would say that teachers are too busy with academic teaching to realistically care about bullying, while classmates will think you're incompetent if you look for a teacher for help against bullying
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