Tips for postman, taxi-driver etc?

[HKNewBi]

so far as i know, they are owned by shareholders. the gov't may be a shareholder, but the MTRC and the KCRC (have they merged yet?) are profit-making, private enterprises.

A private enterprise underwritten by the government with the same bond rating as bonds issued by the HK Govt. Think of it perhaps as a quango.

[HKNewBi]

BTW my ex-girlfriends family that includes 4 daughters, a son and two adults in their 40-60's and the father collected welfare only. Wife made about $2000 a month and they are living fine. They have lots of food, decent place, and they go and do things they want to do generally. They don't live a rich life, but they are not uncomfortable at all.

Well we 'ad it tough. We used to have t'get up out of t'shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK road clean wi'tongue. We 'ad 'alf a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at t'mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife. But we were 'appy!

[KnowItAll]

Before I close this thread, for those who claim HK is a free form capitalism at its best, well its not, in my humble opinion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly