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Badassbab said:

I'm surprised she has the nerve to say what she said after inheriting her wealth from her family who made their money selling minerals to an energy hungry China. It's not easy climbing the ladder if your born into a run down part of the world. Some are born with a silver spoon in their mouth, others with a wooden one. She needs to understand that.


For some of us, there is no spoon.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzm8kTIj_0M



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gottalovethis said:
We're all equal in this world

Yes we are. Some of us are just more equal than others.



PakChiuCheng said:


Singapore is actually a rich country. We are one of the most affluent countries in the world.  Our Prime Minister earns $3 MILLION dollars a year. Our President $4 Million a year. They are the highest paid politicians in the world. 
But guess what. Singaporeans as a whole, especially the middle and lower class are VERY POOR. The income disparity is HUGE.

Singapore imports ALOT of foreigners and they take away the jobs from the locals. More than one-third of the population in Singapore is now made up of Foreigners from India, China, Phillipines, Malaysia, Indonesia who take away jobs from the locals and push down the wages due to them being able to accept a lower wage than Singaporeans.

In spite of the local population's outcry againsts the government's policy of importing foreigners, they go on to do things like spending huge sums of money on foreigners.

Here are some examples.

1) Deny Singapore students a place in the local university. Pay money to import foreigners to study in Singapore and pay for their lodging + school fees.

2) Bashing Singapore Citizens of being useless compared to foreigners who are "Cheaper, Better and Faster". We are probably the only country in the world where our politicians openly bash our own citizens.

3)  The huge influx of foreigners pushing up the price of houses in Singapore. We have a term for our apartments. Its called "Shoe Box Appartments". Which cost 800k to 1 million SGD and they are only around 600 square feet. Even our flats which are supposedly subsidised by the government hit a high of 1 millions.

4) Singapore government importing China nationals to represent us in the Olympics. These China nationals are being paid a salary, lodging provided, training being paid for. And when they won the bronze medals in table tennis, these China nationals were being paid $250k EACH.
We had a local who took part in Olympics too I think. His training wasn't paid for, nothing was provided for him. When he won a bronze medal, he was only paid $50k.

I'm going to give myself as an example. I suffer from severe  Haemophilia. My medical fees are at least $600 a month. On bad months where I get severe bleeds, my cost can go up to a thousand or more. What happens if I'm unemployed and have no money to pay for my medications? Nothing. I will  bleed to death. The government won't care.

And I thought only corporate jobs were being taken away from Singaporeans by the foreigners. No. As a part time theatre actor, I went to an audition last week and I was the only local there in the audition room. The rest were from Malaysia, Phillipines, India, Thailand. I was like F*ck my Life.

That's pathetic of your Government to do that. Sorry if that seems offensive but, it's true.



pezus said:
gottalovethis said:
Totally 100% agree with the woman.

We're all equal in this world, the difference is how we choose to live our lives.

In an ideal world. Our world is not ideal yet.

And will never be.



pezus said:
Galaki said:
gottalovethis said:
We're all equal in this world

Yes we are. Some of us are just more equal than others.

A subtle Uncharted 3 reference. Nice!


I was thinking more Animal Farm.



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Mr Khan said:
Gamerace said:
Mr Khan said:
 

That line from Yoda always bothered me. Trying is more important than success or failure. Success without trying is less meritorious than trying and failing, because the effort ethic is worth more to society in the long run.

You don't just succeed without effort.  Effort is involved, usually LOTS of effort, scarifice and many failed attempts.  However, it's an attitude.  "Trying" pre-supposes failure.  It sub-consciously accepts failure as a valid option.   Do not 'try' to do anything.   Ms. Rindhart didn't multiple her inheritance by 10X's by trying.  You have to be in a place mentally where the status quo is quite simply completely unacceptable and intolerable - with faith that better is achievable.  Then it's no longer a matter of trying.  You are doing.  You're making a plan, executing and then based on results tweeting or changing the plan and continuing until the desired results are achieved.    Edison didn't 'try' to perfect the lightbulb, he did it.  Despite having hundreds of negative results on the way.  If Edison had 'tried' he would have failed like all before him.

And what if that lucky break never comes your way? What if he had never quite worked himself around to baked carbon wire? The end result is the same. Trying is more important than doing, because doing is more determined by outside factors than some would have us believe. E.g. Gina waste-of (a lot of)-space Rinehart, who was in the right place at the right time, born to the right family, plain and simple. The super-successful owe their success as much to outside factors as to their own gumption, which is why all of this "I built it" horseshit is just that: equine feces. All you can do is try and hope for the best.

I don't believe in luck.  I believe in results.  "Trying" is just a way to give ourselves permission to accept results we don't actually want.  Blaming 'outside forces' are another.   Truth is, you will always find some people who have faced those same 'outside forces' and still achieved the results they wanted.

Your results are ultimately pre-dedicated by one thing: You.    How you respond to things determine your results.   Edison responded to a negative result by finding yet another substance to try.  He wasn't the first.  Edison didn't 'invent' the light-bulb, he bought the patent!  He just took the due diligence to keep working on it until he found how to make it commercially viable.  The inventor(s) (one British, one Canadian, seperate patents) had 'tried' to make it work.   Edison did it.   He did it by fully believing it could be done, despite all evidence and 'outside factors' to the contrary and continuing to work on it until it was done. Luck was not a factor. 

What limits most people, are not the outside factors but the inside factors, that tell them, they aren't good enough.  That's a lie.  Unfortunately its a lie too many people never even question.