I interrupt our regular programme for this important message.
As the world's greatest economist, I must say that we are all fucked.
For the past few years, we have had our asses kicked by Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. And I'm not even talking football here. I'm talking about business.
Nikon opened their plants in Thailand. Toyota and Honda as well. Some companies are opting for Vietnam, Myanmar and even Indonesia. Because they have cheap labour. Meanwhile, for the past several years, Temasek, Singapore's company, have been making strategic investments and now the island nation is poised to become a financial hub for SOutheast Asia. Something like being the Switzerland of SEA or even Asia.
We do not have cheap labour because our grunts want more money than their counterparts in other SEA countries. We do not have skilled labourers because we keep treating some of our best minds badly and chase them out of the country with low pay and general stupidity.
The only edge we HAD against everyone else was our oil. With the subsidy in place, we COULD HAVE kept operating expenses low, attracted ships here to refuel, or keeping electricity bills down and manage to keep fleets of diesel-fueled lorries on the roads.
THAT would have been the attraction for foreign investors to come here as the rest of the world jumps from one foot to another with soaring fuel prices.
Sure, the Thais would have taken advantage of this, but it's only losing a few billion and they're quite nice people. Imagine all the billions we COULD HAVE been making with the attraction of low operating expenses.
But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Somebody's children and SOMEBODY'S son-in-law and their friends need some quick cash before the Government change hands. Some people need to make billions while the sun shines.
Thousands of APs for hybrid cars have been distributed, showing exactly where this is going. In this time of manufactured crisis, somebody is going to make money, and it won't be you and me.
Man. These monkeys can only think two or three steps ahead while geniuses like me think 5,000 years to the future.
In 5,000 years, the only living things would be giant cockroaches. And I bet they would not have any problems with oil, as they would be relying on nuclear energy. See, roaches are immune to some forms of radiation.
Anyway, I'm getting too far ahead of myself. We are all FUCKED. Recession is coming and our strategy is deflation. That is worse than inflation. In fact, Dr M adopted a different strategy - something totally opposite to what the people in power are doing.
The current whatever is now cutting expenses, in the hopes of having enough funds to embezzle when they get out of office. What they are doing is basically cutting of circulation, impeding the bloodflow of the country by cutting all expenses.
Dr M went for the opposite. He spent even MORE money because he understood that in order to make money, you have to spend money.
But who cares right? Who gives a shit? As long as you have enough money to pay for a plate of ubiquituous rice and pay for fuel and have sex on the side with a hooker, everything is all right, right?
Fuck everything else. Who the fuck gives a shit about the country? We're all fucked. We're all doomed. Ho-hum.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get high.
