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Girard Perregaux

Yes there is no safety net

 

In Singapore or Vietnam, when one is jobless, it is a very scary situation. 


In Australia where I temporarily live, it is comparatively a welfare state. The people are well taken care of by the government. There are schemes to protect the jobless, handicapped, single mothers etc. Sometimes people exploit the system because they know it too well, faking divorces, working for cash-in-hand to look unemployed on paper etc. 

Yes I know the value of money. I had lived a life of working hard yet having no savings at the end of the month, with no ability to purchase clothes or a proper breakfast. I had experienced heavy debts, till I worried daily about barely meeting the interest and minimum payments. In these times, one finds out who his/her real friends are.

Then there is the sunshine at the end of the rain. It comes. But it can be transient. One has to be humble, and always remember I came from a poor family.

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