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    Prospective Chief Executive - Poor workers paid too much / Spirits

    Super rich (but still middle class as he watches French movies) Financial secretary thinks that dishwasher on $12K earn too much and society is getting better due to people’s refined taste for liquor.

    HK$12,000 to wash dishes? Hong Kong financial chief John Tsang laments effect of ‘soaring’ wages on city’s businesses | South China Morning Post

    Oh dear...


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    Wow, what a load of horse shite....the sad thing is that he really believes the dishwasher making 12k, not the soaring rents is crippling businesses in this city. These greedy arseholes want it all.... high property & low wages. Then they get mad when the rising property prices increase wages a bit. If they could start a FDW (worker) scheme and import cheap labor to wash dishes?


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    300k+ a month for getting the budget forecast wrong year after year and implies that a dishwasher on 12k is overpaid. Time for a job swap challenge!

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    Until the rich in Hong Kong, fear the poor, nothing is going to change.

    Sink a few super yachts, rock and burn expensive cars, burn a club down or two ( hk and China club) Make it impossible to enjoy that 'fine liquor 'until they start pulling their heads in.

    Think mini French revolution, 21St century style...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Open Casket:
    These greedy arseholes want it all.... high property & low wages.
    Yes, it would appear to be setting up the discussion for importing low cost workers form across the LuWu river. Much in the same way big business never complains about low quality migrants keeping wages down in other countries the HK Gov will pursue this policy as it also ruins the integrity of the border quickly taking the Special out of Hong Kong SAR.

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    Doesn't the F&B sector have a fair few votes in the CE election?


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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    Doesn't the F&B sector have a fair few votes in the CE election?
    Not sure but links to the Liberal Party who keep pushing this low wage agenda may be at play.
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    In John Tsang views, earning 280K a month is just a middle class


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    Not surprised one bit. Had government officials like Tsang been more in touch with daily realities of what the average local has to put up with, he and ilk would never have made such a mess with certain government policies.


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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    Doesn't the F&B sector have a fair few votes in the CE election?
    I believe so. I am suspect the recent pay rise for doctors was rapidly approved on similar grounds. That is one sector that could easily fall to the democrats.

    Come to think of it the government has approved very generous civil service pay rises, and in other cities that would be naturally seen as linked or contributing to general wage inflation. Perhaps this is seen differently because the raises were for the upper echelons.

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