Why is it that so many people in Singapore (but everywhere else too, really) think they know how to run an entire country? And why so many are so eager to comment without reading? Someone posted a screenshot of a Skills Future training course on cleaning toilets and widespread netizen
September has only just begun and so much misinformation to deal with already. HDB prices, consequences of smoking a joint abroad and now the evergreen topic of "minimum wage".Starting Sep. 1st companies employing foreigners in Singapore will have to pay their local employees a minimum qualifying salary
My recent argument with Jamus Lim (you can follow it in full on his wall) has revealed just how ambitious and self-confident WP's economist is.After lecturing trade unions back in 2020 about "folksy wisdom" that apparently guides their negotiations with the government re: minimum wages,
Despite David Card's rebuttals, his findings on minimum wage continue to be peddled by left-wing economists and politicians as dogma.
