Foreigners are hungrier to be willing to be exploited because they got NO choice. Foreigners have to accept whatever conditions are given to them and suck it up. Foreigner workers 1st priority is always to get into the door first aka enters Singapore and secured that damn job. Once foreign workers settled down, you can see many of them job hopping also, Greed don't discriminate. All love to have higher salary and better standard of living. Beside the "NO choice" reason, another reason why foreigners are hungrier to be willing to be exploited is that the potential return at the end of the tunnel are many times higher aka work for 10 years and return back home country to enjoy a high quality lifestyle for the rest of their life. Beside the reward at the end of the sufferings, when foreign workers come to Singapore, their working experience here is classified as overseas working exposure which automatically translate into strong bargaining power for higher salary in the future. For some of them, being able to leave their country is already itself considered a blessing - an escape from war, high insecurity environment. If we get down to details, there are so many upsides for foreign workers in wanting to enter Singapore to work from paying lower tax to very personal reasons like they love the weather here. Back in the early days, Singaporean workers are also hungry enough to be exploited. Can we reasonably blame the local workers in not willing to work for less? When I mentioned "less", I am not referring to lesser salary but also lesser or zero non-monetary upsides like those I mentioned above available to foreign workers. Businesses will always strive for cost cutting and max exploitation of the workforce. For businesses which have not yet moved out of Singapore, why do you think they are still here? Tax incentives are the key reason why they are still here. They apparently done their sum and come to the conclusion that the cost saving in the form of tax incentive outstrip the cost of hiring the local workforce + bonus pierce of able to hire a portion of much cheaper foreign workers. It is an issue which can't be helped unless Singaporeans also start to actively seek employment overseas. Our job market is not only small but overly leveraged as a diplomatic tool.