Million Dollar Civil Servant Censured in Parliament

Why cannot one spend his money that he earns legally?

The real issue here is: why is it necessary for such a pay first of all? When the global eco is good, it is their credits to lead the nation. When the time is bad, it is not their fault as the downturn cannot be avoided.

This ecnonmic crisis has made the elite-system a joke: they are soooo good that we have to pay high $$ to retain them. At the end, they cause all the crisis, and leave the ordinary people sufferring. This happened in Wall St, but should we re-think about all the systems heavily relying on "elites"?

I personally dislikes this type of elite system.

They actually make a lot of mistakes in the past.

Despite opposition MP Chiam See Tong requiring for the primary school streaming system especially EM3 to be abolished as the label it attached is damaging to the self-esteem of a 10 year old kid. It took Jack Neo I not Stupid for them to see this fact.

Another is the repeated trends that they attempt to create, from IT to life sciences to business/entrepreneurship to now engineering, as if the youngsters of Singapore don't have a mind of their owns and need the government to tell them what to study.

All those who fall for the trends like IT previously and now especially Life Sciences have to go for some other further studies in other areas. It is as though they have wasted their times.

Oh really 'lucky'? if they did not get it, then they are less. Its a race.

Also, WE know the black swan theory. Thing is, you don't seem to. If these people are what you say to be "lots", they won't be black swans. Black swans only occur one in a million.

Don't talk so much when you don't know what you are talking about.

lucky, the Black Swan is taught to very young scholars fresh out of universities in Admin Service. It means a single unpredictable and rare occurrence "beyond the realm of logical expectations" and historical trending, especially after an uninterrupted chain of predictable patterns.

Don't buy books you can't understand.

i think lucky is trying to say that luck plays a part in a person's success, more so than he's willing to admit. everyone would want think he's successful and rich because he's intelligent and skilful, but he's also probably very lucky to have been at the right places at the right times. this is not the black swan theory. it's the fooled by randomness theory. don't be fooled by randomness.

jimmy: he cited Black Swan.It's so funny that the person who doesn't know what he's talking about (as proven above by Black Swan) is the same one who believes that his failures are not his fault and completely random. And the success of his neighbour is not his merit, but also random.

Now do I smell sour grapes? Now that's a turn of phrase used correctly.

This is the safest job in the whole wide world.
You get paid tons of money just to manage people without worrying about the bottom line.

omg..thoroughly agreed..met a few super senior admin officers abroad and was shocked by their arrogance. why pay them according to what gs pays? Does the government seriously think that what they are doing is transferrable to the private sector? Please, by all means..try and apply.
jesus..i so want to be working in the government!

hahaha poor thing sour grapes..never heard a more jealous sour-grape sounding person in this website as yet

>When I grow up, I want to be a Permanent Secretary cross-trained in Le Cordon culinary art.

Ha ha. When I grow up, I want to be a PSP Helper.

(then later…) I want to be the President of Singapore!