If your income is not fixed but variable, just how do you “budget” that?
A salaried worker will get a fixed pay cheque a month but those who do odd jobs such as collecting cans and boxes for recycling can never truly predict how much money they will make a month.
I saw some people say that JKM Pay prevents people from wasting the money on cigarettes, alcohol or, horror, drugs.
If you think like that I would first like to say, you should check your empathy tank as it seems to be running on empty.
This moralising about how the poor should spend their money is ridiculous and also part of the whole myth that the poor are that way because they chose to be.
It’s also why too many of us admire the rich and ascribe virtue to wealth due to this fantastical notion that wealthy people “worked hard” to get where they are.
Never mind that the average CEO salary has quadrupled over the years while the average Malaysian factory worker still earns what they did in the 80s.
The simple solution is really to just give poor people money. Yes, there will be some who will buy themselves a beer or a carton or two of cigarettes.
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A salaried worker will get a fixed pay cheque a month but those who do odd jobs such as collecting cans and boxes for recycling can never truly predict how much money they will make a month.
I saw some people say that JKM Pay prevents people from wasting the money on cigarettes, alcohol or, horror, drugs.
If you think like that I would first like to say, you should check your empathy tank as it seems to be running on empty.
This moralising about how the poor should spend their money is ridiculous and also part of the whole myth that the poor are that way because they chose to be.
It’s also why too many of us admire the rich and ascribe virtue to wealth due to this fantastical notion that wealthy people “worked hard” to get where they are.
Never mind that the average CEO salary has quadrupled over the years while the average Malaysian factory worker still earns what they did in the 80s.
The simple solution is really to just give poor people money. Yes, there will be some who will buy themselves a beer or a carton or two of cigarettes.
Read more
Why Cashless Economy means social exclusion
