Food prices

while i was at brustu they were having a conversation bout beating this increasing food prices,n i will quote saber n PhantomS of brustu for all of this




"Of course the above statement sounds like we are not creating more job opportunities. Well, the thing is, i dont really like lot of locals getting those jobs. Let the technology care of it. The locals should try..."

Technology will need people to maintain it and a continued supply of spare parts and infrastructure. Plus manual labour is still needed to operate the machines.

Locals are welcome to try, but the risk/gain ratio is still too dangerous for most investors. A failure at this venture will more than bankrupt an average businessman, while the more than average businessmen/people will hire outside anyway.






"replace all foreigners in brunei. It harsh yeah, but foreigners working at well placed jobs have higher salaries than locals. Sound like a waste to our economy"

It's not a waste, because I doubt there are replacements from the local pool of talent. All the 'great' ones are pulled into administration, after all. The proportion of Bruneians actually 'in the field' is very much less than Bruneians 'administering' - for example there are perhaps more clerks, receptionists, administrators, secretaries and other officers than doctors under the Ministry of Health.

Until someone gets their head out of the devil's ass and changes that, the foreigners will stay as there are few locals who have worked at their level for the same amount of time. Some 'senior' doctors for instance actually have only 4-5 years of hospital time but 20-30 years of admin time. the same goes for teachers; teaching 2-3 years and suddenly they're teleported to a department without any particular specialism to their name (not special education, physical education or religious education for example). Before you know it that person is a senior education officer somewhere, but hasn't been on the ground in 15 years or something. That's why foreigners still form the big majority of lecturers at UBD- they came here with bags of experience doing what they do, not doing something else.

If we apply this to food production, there might be very few of us who know anything about mass production of rice at Thailand- style levels or American grain harvesting. Looking at whoever is appointed up there is not really helpful- that's the admin side. Fella probably started out as a teacher or something.

-at this point, half of you have probably stopped reading as long posts upset some of you. Well, you're just ignorant.

Some ways to beat the food price increases might be:-

-Start processing the food ourselves. Producing food is not going to help if we have to export it somewhere to be processed (like our oil). Perhaps if we started processing food that we produce we could import less.

-Telling a Bruneian to eat less would be telling them to commit suicide, but it's either death or sensibility. choose.

-Stop accompanying every significant event in your life with food. Buffets in particular. Here, even funerals are accompanied with three day food fests that will burn the pocket.

-When people drink but not eat together, there's actually more conversation, too.

- Destroy the local perception that if no food is served, the person is a piece of shit. Destroy it utterly.





OR, use advance technology to attract more locals. (antah ah, not sure plang dont ask me how).

If anything, more advanced technology will be out of the intellectual reach of most locals. Technology enables you to solve a problem, it doesn't solve the problem on its own.

If sports are anything to go by, Brunei never trains anyone for long term success in agriculture either.


Thank you to these two for giving me something to blog about


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