The best thing about Malaysia is, its sinking into the stinking mud and burning itself out with plundering profiteering capitilist pirate bushfires.

I'll think for a while longer, and see if I can invent something nice to say about it.

Dan

This is always going to be the case in a world where power-hungry power junkies prevail. Given they will say, do and promise anything to get their grubby hands on the levers of power and the spoils of defeat!

As long as recalcitrant politicians play both ends against the middle to serve this or that political outcome and or sell off the national heritage and indeed, it would seem, their souls? For some transitionary advantage, nothing much will change.

When one or two of them grow hearts, backbones and a conscience, maybe just maybe they will embrace cooperative capitalism and instead of advantaging cronies etc, put the nation and especially young people of any ethnicity to work in occupations that reward their endeavour and personal enterprise to the maximum! In a united, we stand or prosper and divided we fall or fail paradigms.

Co-ops were the only private enterprise, free-market, business model that survived the great depression largely intact.

Other than that, all social amenity, power, water etc., must remain in public and or co-op hands for the social outcomes they provide, and impossible when they become privatised cash cows for foreign investors, etc-etc.

Malaysia could do worse than emulate the Celtic economic miracle without following it to the end and virtually destroying all they'd gained, by allowing, debt-laden, foreign speculators into the real estate market and then trying to bail them out when things turned sour for them, when supply started to get too far ahead of demand and positively gormless politicians started to put their narrow interest ahead of the national interest!
Alan B.

There are worse things in prospect if a dictatorial and recalcitrant Dr Marhartir remains at the helm! We've seen this movie before! And what's possible when disaffected rural youth have taken an absolute gutful!

The Malaysia he took control of just months ago is anything but a developing economy, but was for a while a seemingly prosperous one!

And clearly on the road to increased prosperity!?

Only to see its prospects go backwards a the hands of clearly corrupt politicians!

Moreover, the recalcitrant elected dictator doesn't have clean hands in this regard, but rather one of using the police and false witness as his personal instruments to wrest and wield personal power!
Alan B.

We had many warning that growth in technology would bring a small number of highly paid jobs in managing the technology, but would destroy a huge number of jobs that the technology made now redundant.

It certainly looks like that was good forecasting. Now a couple of machines can do the work of dozens of farm laborers, & a few robots can eliminate hundreds of factory process workers.

The brave new world is upon us & we are not only not prepared for it, we have no idea of how to handle its effects. The same problem is appearing in our suburbs & country towns as we type.