[Serious] What is the purpose of encouraging birth rate when there is not much opportunity for the local?

[106gunner]

The other reason was they need more population to buy their BTO or else why you see they keep constructing and launching BTO quarterly

Having more child birth and new immigrants will fulfilled their demand and objective

Without these, how are MIW going to paid for their high salary?

 

[Hello_Kitty]

people say sg is the best place on earth and in the galaxy

 

[TheApathetic]

Some guys really spend so much time justifying your life staying single...

These r the kind of singles that are involuntarily single.

 

[dambio]

Said many times b4 alr.

When high paying n good pmet jobs majority goes to foreigners.

Who really will hv d purchasing n spending power in sg now n in d future?

N if u dun, how to start a family when u got issues even feeding your ownself?

 

[Travis_Touchdown]

Why do so many people still assume that security guards job are still reserved for local. Big Companies like certis cisco or aetos have already tapped into FT for manpower. They no longer need sinkie for this job.

Let say even if a NTU or NUS local uni grad would to start his career as a security guard , he or she might not get the job also.

agree... actually nao the only jod that ish truly secure ish food delivery... they ish will even ensure no foreigners ish can come here to do food delivery...

 

[Song Bro]

No encourage where got 韭菜 for FT to harvest?

 

[coyote]

These r the kind of singles that are involuntarily single.

With all these comments in edmw in general, think government really has no choice but to keep importing foreign talents and keep encouraging them to convert to citizens or them marrying some locals and making some next generation of Singaporeans... This generation really hopeless...

 

[V-FORTY]

singapore's only resource
is
human resource.

 

[kleong]

Think need indranee give a speech on the benefits of having babies

 

[sAVaGEmP5]

In all serious matter, What is the purpose of encouraging birth rate when there is really no opportunity or much privileges for the local here? Anyone can just come in here to get a job and buy a resale HDB if they earn high enough here. We have already find a solution to this shortage position by importing as much foreign talent as possible , among all sector , close to 55% to 60% of the average position is already filled by FT or PR.

So local is really not needed other than serving Mandatory NS. There is already a massive number of people , be it the fresh grad or jobless PMET who are unable to find any opportunity other than driving grab or food panda. The previous generation of leaders did the right things by limiting birth rate and imposing fine on large family back than , can't imagine if there is no restriction on this , there will be even a larger population of people who are jobless here and fighting for a small pool of resource and opportunity amid the fierce competition.

So why is the government still trying to push for local birthrate and incentive those maternity leave despite that they have already found a solution to this problem by just importing when needed.

Left police and saf lo. What else. Doctor n healthcare also outsourced liao.

 

[evilsun]

Think need indranee give a speech on the benefits of having babies

yes , that is coming from someone who have no kids.

That like teaching someone how to fish without having any knowledge of being a fisherman.

I think she have the best job in the ministry , in charge of population growth because it doesn't matter anymore whether if she can meet KPI , Because the truth is they already have solution in place in mind to mitigate the shortage especially with the rise in AI too , they can aggressively replace anyone here with just FT and AL alone. No impact to anything , things still goes on as per normal.

 

[ShinnAsuka]

The road to 10 million population is paved with sinkies doing menial tasks that are reserved for locals such as cleaners, PHV drivers and security guards to ensure our foreign talents have a comfortable time here.

Not hard to imagine next time new citizens / foreigners are the masters, natural born sinkies are the gardener, the chauffeur, the servant

 

[evilsun]

Left police and saf lo. What else. Doctor n healthcare also outsourced liao.

SAF , SPF and SCDF is the only place where they cannot tapped in FT yet , maybe 10 years down the road , it might change with the changing policy. No one knows.

Almost all the critical sector here like IT , healthcare and Finance, They are all already occupied by FT especially in IT.

 

[TheApathetic]

With all these comments in edmw in general, think government really has no choice but to keep importing foreign talents and keep encouraging them to convert to citizens or them marrying some locals and making some next generation of Singaporeans... This generation really hopeless...

The future generation will end up the same as the current generation.

 

[coyote]

The future generation will end up the same as the current generation.

At least there will be a future generations of new Singaporeans...to start with, then they can talk about how to improve...

 

[kleong]

SAF , SPF and SCDF is the only place where they cannot tapped in FT yet , maybe 10 years down the road , it might change with the changing policy. No one knows.

Almost all the critical sector here like IT , healthcare and Finance, They are all already occupied by FT especially in IT.

They already hire ft as auxiliary police officers to supplement spf liao

 

[Humster]

people say sg is the best place on earth and in the galaxy

BS la, China, NK, SK, US, India all got say.

 

[Unic0rn]

Some guys really spend so much time justifying your life staying single...

Bro is very simple, just need social experiment for gov to say for each child born singapore citizen and raised to adulthood the parents will receive $1 million dollars in baby bonus and from there you can see the results simply nowadays the environment is too harsh with no opportunities, no well paying stable job, every job is contract basis and lowly paid?

 

[Mila Azul]

It's a nasty loop that usually doesn't end well for most of us.

 

[fanflo_08]

Actually to be honest, SGeans got a lot of benefits la.
- all kind of vouchers - GST, CDC, Transport etc. You just need to find the sweet spot to get them all.
- SG passport the strongest in the world.
- SG currency stable and strong. Not like the others in ASEAN - keep dropping.
- Education system also solid - Study from pri sch to jc - not a lot of school fees. The only killers are tertiary and pre school education.
- Environment also v safe - can go for a jog in the middle of the night w/o being raped/robbed/shot.

All these benefits don't magically appear. Someone has to work hard behind the scenes. So appreciate what we have.

As for birth rate, it is more of a personal choice. Some couples like children and want them - then be prepared sacrifice your personal time, space, money for the kid loh. Don't kpkb and expect others to sacrifice for what you want coz no one is forcing you to pump your wife full tank every night to make one.