Why you must make your child rich Chapter 1
Before you read these few chapters that will be written in this senseless blog, I would like to thank my mum for NOT making me into the rich kid that I am suggesting all of you should make your child into.
My mum is the greatest woman ever live and its her that I know that when someday, the rich gets all the money and the poor has nothing but debt, I will still be living happily eating own grown potatoes, vegetables and hunted chicken.
If you can see beyong the mechanism of economics, you do not need to read this. If not......Enjoy.
WHY YOU SHOULD MAKE YOUR CHILD RICH
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Chapter 1 - The "Spoilt" brat
First of all, we all know that there is a global thrend of youths not willing to take on very demanding jobs. In taiwan, they are called the "strawberries". Good to look at, but very weak and vulnerable. Just a small knock and they are bruised or even destroyed. In singapore, there are graduates who are still living off their parents at the age of 30.
Are they spoilt brats? Not really.
They are just very smart kids who don't see a point working so hard for a unjustifiable miserable salary. Sometimes, I think to myself if i am them, I wouldn't take on a job that is not even high enough for me to stay on my own outside and have a reasonable social life. These kids, although living off their rich parents, are not stupid.
In some stupid university lesson I attend before, there is this theory on work, leisure and rest. A normal person should divide his day equally in these 3 parts. so it means
8 hours of work, 8 hours of leisure, 8 hours of sleep, total of 24 hours. if you have to sacrifice leisure or sleep, your salary per hour should increase at a exponential speed. because the remaining hours of leisure and sleep are more precious now.
However, in today's society, that's not the case. Overtime are taken for granted, if theres OT pay, its pro rated to your miserable salary.
If you are brought up in a society that champions spending (people spending money improves the economy), and you happen to be the top spenders for many years (teenagers spend more than their parents usually, school fees, clothes, magazines, fashion accesories, fashion boots, fashion clothes, idol's worn underwear etc),how on earth can the society to expect you to take any hardship?
I mean if you have a mum like mine, who want me to work in my school holidays since the age of 12 to earn my own Nike Air shoes, my own tea dance tickets, my own crappy fashion sense clothes, then you can really grow to a person who can take hardships...but no. Most children nowadays, being allowed by the society to spend, spend, spend, is not possible to do that.
You will be unreasonable to request a kid who grow up in a capitalism society playing the role of only the consumer for almost 20 years to be able to take hardship. FIrst you want him to spend when he is not even earning money, he spend even more than his/her parents, and you allow him to have education to know about the good paid and bad paid jobs...he/she has every reason not to oblige.
So what is he to do? Unless he/she comes from a poor family, the "brat" will always choose not to work if the work is too hard for a small salary. And I can embrace his thoughts. He is not totally wrong given how the society brought him up. And unless he really knows what he wants in life right after he grads (most youngster dun, and for those who knows what they want in life, is to work least for the most money), he wont work with parents willing and able to feed him.
End of chapter 1
My mum is the greatest woman ever live and its her that I know that when someday, the rich gets all the money and the poor has nothing but debt, I will still be living happily eating own grown potatoes, vegetables and hunted chicken.
If you can see beyong the mechanism of economics, you do not need to read this. If not......Enjoy.
WHY YOU SHOULD MAKE YOUR CHILD RICH
----------------------------------
Chapter 1 - The "Spoilt" brat
First of all, we all know that there is a global thrend of youths not willing to take on very demanding jobs. In taiwan, they are called the "strawberries". Good to look at, but very weak and vulnerable. Just a small knock and they are bruised or even destroyed. In singapore, there are graduates who are still living off their parents at the age of 30.
Are they spoilt brats? Not really.
They are just very smart kids who don't see a point working so hard for a unjustifiable miserable salary. Sometimes, I think to myself if i am them, I wouldn't take on a job that is not even high enough for me to stay on my own outside and have a reasonable social life. These kids, although living off their rich parents, are not stupid.
In some stupid university lesson I attend before, there is this theory on work, leisure and rest. A normal person should divide his day equally in these 3 parts. so it means
8 hours of work, 8 hours of leisure, 8 hours of sleep, total of 24 hours. if you have to sacrifice leisure or sleep, your salary per hour should increase at a exponential speed. because the remaining hours of leisure and sleep are more precious now.
However, in today's society, that's not the case. Overtime are taken for granted, if theres OT pay, its pro rated to your miserable salary.
If you are brought up in a society that champions spending (people spending money improves the economy), and you happen to be the top spenders for many years (teenagers spend more than their parents usually, school fees, clothes, magazines, fashion accesories, fashion boots, fashion clothes, idol's worn underwear etc),how on earth can the society to expect you to take any hardship?
I mean if you have a mum like mine, who want me to work in my school holidays since the age of 12 to earn my own Nike Air shoes, my own tea dance tickets, my own crappy fashion sense clothes, then you can really grow to a person who can take hardships...but no. Most children nowadays, being allowed by the society to spend, spend, spend, is not possible to do that.
You will be unreasonable to request a kid who grow up in a capitalism society playing the role of only the consumer for almost 20 years to be able to take hardship. FIrst you want him to spend when he is not even earning money, he spend even more than his/her parents, and you allow him to have education to know about the good paid and bad paid jobs...he/she has every reason not to oblige.
So what is he to do? Unless he/she comes from a poor family, the "brat" will always choose not to work if the work is too hard for a small salary. And I can embrace his thoughts. He is not totally wrong given how the society brought him up. And unless he really knows what he wants in life right after he grads (most youngster dun, and for those who knows what they want in life, is to work least for the most money), he wont work with parents willing and able to feed him.
End of chapter 1
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