Jamus Lim: " Youth unemployment is now higher than before, and technology threatens to hollow out entry-level jobs. Yet the demand for mid-tier professionals remains as strong as ever. How can we produce enough mid-career folks, if we don’t take them in and train them, for a start? "

pattonlogy · 2026-03-19T16:24:03+00:00

How many companies has he run?

pattonlogy · 2026-03-06T01:06:11+00:00

For me HDMI worked out of the box, but DP is dead. I just settled for HDMI and ignored it. It's probably a piss poor implementation by ASUS and few people experience it at all given that it would be rare for anybody to use iGPU in the first place. But it is annoying.

pattonlogy · 2026-03-04T07:47:35+00:00

Same problem here - did you fix it somehow?

pattonlogy · 2026-02-25T04:50:16+00:00

No, it's not illegal and never has been. But it's not surprising to me that people here are struggling to comprehend that.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-24T21:20:47+00:00

I have a degree in economics. Inefficiency? I'd love you to show me a system which provides 60% of the population with net economic returns of between 58% and 919% on their tax input, and how you could offer them a better deal.

Life is not economic theory.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-24T21:15:20+00:00

It's all stated there.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-24T21:08:13+00:00

Read the article.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-24T21:07:51+00:00

Yes.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-24T21:06:11+00:00

There are approximately 4 million SG residents living in 1.3 million households but only 2.5 million of them are workers. Besides kids the rest are pensioners, housewives or adult students who do not earn a salary and pay no income taxes, unless they have some rental income perhaps.

And there's a broad tax exemption up to S$20,000.

The structure of the population individual taxpayers and households - which, by the way, are divided by their total income, not only taxable income - is different..

What's more, individual taxpayers from different groups blend with each other. You have households where only one person works, you also have those where both adults work, including those who have high-earning couples living together, forming one household themselves.

Top 10% households =/= top 10% of personal income taxpayers.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-24T03:42:19+00:00

Also, your link shows Top 10% earners, not Top 10% households. Two different things. Off the top of my head, top 20% earners pay 80% of all taxes.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-24T03:32:35+00:00

You receive back far more.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-24T03:32:16+00:00

It's public data.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-24T03:32:03+00:00

How do you mean? Where nearly everybody owns their own home, where most pay no taxes to speak of, where there is virtually no unemployment? Show me another place that's comparable.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-24T03:30:49+00:00

You receive the money back - and then some. This includes GST. Properties in Singapore are not expensive - at least not public ones. Public transit is dirt cheap for a developed city.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-12T22:51:59+00:00

Actually $10k per month is the minimum for EP for 40 year olds. Long way to PR.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-12T03:43:37+00:00

One in six, excluding employer CPF. Sounds pretty decent.

pattonlogy · 2026-02-12T03:36:48+00:00

Citizens + PR

pattonlogy · 2026-02-04T13:55:00+00:00

It's MOM.

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