When People Do Not Know What Is Bad For Them

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There is so much crap in this world. There is crap everywhere.There are many kinds of crap. Two examples are permanent crap and temporary crap.
Temporary crap could be a situation that you got yourself into (a career choice, wrong employer, bad business decision, weak economic condition, wrong choice of life partner, wrong choice of friends,  trouble causing family / relatives  etc). These things are all 'temporary' in nature - or should be temporary in nature - provided you know how to work your way out. Or you know how to find a solution.  In other words solutions exist.  That is what I call 'temporary crap'.  There is a way out.
My first business venture started 30 years ago. It took off with a bang. Then an anchor tenant where I was located went bust and the business died in that area. I could not move location because I was short of capital. I was also alone - my wife was attending university and was also busy taking care of our young family at that time. 
No big deal. Youth was still on my side and I saw what I had to do. I  simply plotted my way out.  There was a solution and I could see the solution.  So I went back to work in banking and stuck with a banking career.  But I always had my eye on business. It took us 10 years to reorganise our capital and resources and get into business again. We started our gold jewellery business in 1998 and this time my wife was fully involved. From there we went on to do property plus I also continued with my own corporate career. Then writing books also was an added bonus - which I did not expect.  Now youth is not on my side but there are  still plenty of things to do. Plus you can be Prime Minister at age 93.
Ok lets get back to talking about crap again.  Permanent crap is also about the same as that list of temporary crap I have mentioned above. However you must add religion to permanent crap.  In my personal view religion is satanic. Ajaran syaitan par excellence.    But permanent crap  becomes permanent crap ONLY when YOU (yes I am referring to you) do not know HOW to get yourself out of the permanent crap.
Your situation (yes I am referring to you again) becomes worse - becomes entombed in crap as hard as concrete - when 
a. you do NOT KNOW that you are stuck in permanent crap b. when you think that the permanent crap that you are stuck in is  your god's gift to you.  
You are actually in very deep shit.   That is being stuck in real permanent crap with no way of you being able to crawl out of this crappy situation.   
It is conventional wisdom that 'the customer knows best'.  I do not agree with this at all. The customer rarely knows what is best or even what is good for them.  If you do not believe me just count ALL THOSE things that you bought that :
1. you really do not need, they are just lying around your house2. do not work or do not produce the results that you thought they would.  (I bought a motorised tiller - to break up the soil in our garden, but our soil is clay soil and hard as concrete.  The motorised tiller just bounces off the hard clay.  Never mind we can use it on our compost heap - to toss it over.)
So the customer (or consumer) rarely knows best. This is my view.  A good product becomes successful because the inventor, manufacturer or engineer just happened to hit on the right design or right recipe and taste.  
In the same way, to justify a democracy the saying goes that 'the voters always know best'.  This is a highly disputable statement.  What the voter thinks is best for them may not even be good at all for humanity. It could even be evil (meaning really bad).
The voter will only know best if 
1. the voter is sufficiently educated to think critically and logically2. is not frightened by  'negative repercussions'3. does not believe in black magic4. does not believe in hocus pocus religion5. does not believe in satanic religion6. is not swayed too much by racial and religious prejudices
Can you find such a voter in Malaysia ?  There are not enough of such voters.  So the voters actually do not know what is best for them.
This is where we need absolutely good and capable leadership.  Those with fake degrees and others who support or defend people with fake degrees are just not leaders. They are just  fools. 
We need leadership that has good principles and good moral values that are universal.  One example of a good moral value is to know that faking a university degree or defending a fake university degree is an immoral thing to do.
If you are still confused about this very simple point, on top of your beliefs in superstition, blackmagic and satanic religion - then you are just a vampire that has escaped from hell.  Sadly there are many of you in this country and in this world.  
While poor Buffy is just one person.



This walkabout was triggered by a comment in the earlier post :
Anonymous said...
"With a systematic agenda that is pro-rakyat" ... “reform”?
Let's not talk about "reform" to gain rural Malay votes. It won’t work. They don't understand what reform is all about. They will vote for you if they are fed with money. The super moron was doing this.   It’s still “money talks” to many of these folks. 
Umno and PAS can forget Sabah and Sarawak. 
Be smart in politics. For PH to win big, re-delineate the electoral boundaries. This must be done before the next GE. MUST. Many of the constituencies are presently disproportionately represented. Tony Pua has over 150 000 voters in his constituency (split into 3 or 4). There are constituencies having less than 30 000 voters to favour BN before the GE14. This is just absurd. 
Monday, February 11, 2019 12:17:00 PM
Note this point :    They don't understand what reform is all about.
I think this is a prime example of being in a  "permanent crap" situation.  They do not even know they are stuck in the crap.  
In an earlier post  where I complained (again and again as I have been doing since 1995 or earlier) that we are paying three or four times the world market prices for cars. Meaning that is NOT A GOOD thing to do.  
One commenter  said that   lowering the prices of cars would only increase the number of cars on the roads.   The commenter was obviously happy  or not concerned that Malaysians are paying three or four times the world market prices for their cars and vehicles.   These are the people in that permanent crap situation. They cannot even begin to understand that they are in permanent crap.
Paying market prices for cars and vehicles will NOT increase the number of cars on the roads.  A husband and wife living in an apartment with just one parking spot are not going to buy a second or third or fourth car just because car prices are more realistic and reasonable.  They will have to pay extra road tax, pay extra for service, maintenance, car wash etc for the extra cars. They will still make do with just one car. The difference is that for the same amount of money they have been forced to pay they will now own a bigger, better quality and safer car.  Instead of paying RM1000 per month for a tin can, they can now own an Accord or a lower end Mercedes Benz.  That is the difference.
Cik Minah who runs her nasi lemak stall from the back of  her Nissan Vanette is not going to buy TWO or THREE more Nissan Vanettes just because the prices of Nissan Vanettes have come down. She still needs only ONE Nissan Vanette to run her nasi lemak  business.  But a cheaper Nissan Vanette means that Cik Minah pays less monthly instalment and therefore she can now save more money and use the extra savings to put down a deposit  for that medium cost apartment that is now only affordable to many Chinese and other non Malays. 
Boleh faham ke brader?   Why are you folks so dumb?
The other example is the Bernas monopoly on rice.  This has caused the price of rice to be so high in Malaysia.  As I said before even that poor quality 20% or so broken rice is selling for almost RM3.00 per kilo.  As I have said I have seen Chinese people buy this low quality rice and cook it (with pet food) and feed it to dogs. (This was at an animal shelter where we went to tolong sikit.)  
But this is the same low quality rice that is being bought and eaten by the Malay people.
Now if you remove the Bernas monopoly on rice and open up the rice market to full competition,  then it is most likely that the poor people, including many Malay people  (who can still only afford to pay about RM3 per kilo for rice)  will suddenly discover that now their RM3.00 can buy beras wangi Vietnam or beras panjang Thailand !! Or better - who knows.  
So even though their income remains the same - meaning they still only have RM3.00 to buy rice -  but the difference is that now with the same  RM3.00 they do not have to eat  "beras kualiti anjing".  They can eat a better quality rice. Faham tak brader?  
Or, if they still want to buy that low quality 20% broken rice, then they will discover that the price of that low quality 20% broken rice has fallen to reflect its real market value.  Maybe that low quality 20% broken rice will now sell at only RM2.00 per kilo.  No more RM3.00 per kilo.
So even there the consumer saves money.  The money they save can be used to buy other things that they could not buy before - for example a medium cost apartment that previously was only affordable to Chinese and other non Malays.
To make a long story short what I am saying is that YOU (yes you brader) are poor because you are stupid.  You do not seem to understand what is good for you.
When you cannot think logically and critically you will not know that you are in a situation of permanent crap.Posted by Syed Akbar Ali 

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