Survivial Series - Singapore

A comparison of the working culture in both the United Kingdom and Singapore:

UK:
You work, you earn, you pay tax, and you contribute to social welfare system. When you get sick, you go consult a doctor, you get medicine and you pay nothing. When you are hospitalized, the company and/or welfare insurance pay for everything.

SG:
You work, you earn, you pay tax, and you contribute to your old-age fund (a.k.a. CPF). When you get sick, you go consult a doctor, you get medicine and most likely the company pays/subsidizes heavily for you. When you are hospitalized, the company and/or insurance pay for everything PROVIDED you pay for your insurance first!

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A comparison of the jobless culture in both the United Kingdom and Singapore:

UK:
You are on the dough! Every week that you are jobless, you get a tidy sum of STERLING POUNDS to tide you over the week. And you get (or forced to receive) lots of recommendations and referrals from the welfare arms to job opportunities.

When you are sick, the hospitals will take you in and say “show me your health problem”. Money is secondary – it either gets it from you, your welfare insurance or their insurance (bad debt).

SG:
You are in deep shit! Everyday you are on your own. You got to find your own money to obtain your physiological needs (food, hygiene, accommodation, etc).

The garmen sends you to referral centres and put you on the unemployed statistic (unwillingly). After countless of mis-matching of job expectations, you are blamed by the ministry for being choosy and not becoming a road sweeper! Henceforth, after don’t know how many months; you have officially become a house-maker in the statistic – still a noble job! Whether it is by your choice or the garmen decide for you is not your say. Hey, Singapore unemployment rate is low indeed.

When you are sick, the hospitals register you and ask “show me the money”. No vitamin-M? Perhaps you should go to xXx hospital instead… you get shoved out.

Free medical treatment? Of course there is one! No country done it better than Singapore! How? It’s very simple – visit a hospital, use their services, declare no money to pay, get jailed, and get free medical service from the prison hospital. Who say Singapore got no free medical services?

Better still, want to have health problem, make sure it's kidney failure. Then you get a FREE job with a FREE pay and get GUEST APPEARANCE on television and ACT like a dying man so that you can get TEN PERCENT of the donation!

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Conclusion:
It is expensive to work in U.K. (high taxes).
It is sucide to become jobless in Singapore (you are on your own).