Zimbabweanisation
With people leaving, funds and factories moving out, shops closed and supermarkets half as crowded, there will be no need of growing vegetables in Cameron Highlands, or rearing pigs at Paya Mengkuang…
By TAY TIAN YAN/Translated by DOMINIC LOH/Sin Chew Daily
The foreign ministry’s statistics couldn’t be wrong. The outflow of Malaysians in massive quantities has become a very real phenomenon.
Little wonder that Malaysia Airlines and AirAsia stand out aloft when their peers are bleeding profusely because of the economic downturn.
Other than those on business and vacation trips, migrants are beginning to matter in the carriers’ clientele profiles.
If things were to go down the same trend, we have no reason to worry about overpopulation. We can always transfer our population problems to other countries, and let them bear the consequences of snatching our talents.
Ten years on, we won’t have the need for more Chinese primary schools. The little kids will travel with their parents abroad, while the school boards, principals and teachers have to fight for student enrolments, begging parents door-to-door to send their children to their schools while offering free textbooks, uniforms, schoolbus rides, and even the latest smartphones in exchange for willingness to send their children there.
If a 6-year contract is signed, air tickets for migration will also be given away free of charge after the kids turn 18.
MCA will no longer have to worry about any more infighting. Its members are scattered across the globe, and will very soon open branches in Sydney, Dongguan, Jakarta, Vancouver, Hong Kong (Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Territories branches) and Singapore (from Woodlands all the way to Sentosa), and has good potentials of overtaking the ruling People’s Action Party to become the biggest political party in the island republic.
With people leaving, we will then have an oversupply of residential units. Selling prices for top-notched luxurious condos in KL’s Golden Triangle will slide from RM1,000 psf to RM500, while double-storey terraced houses in PJ go for RM250k each, down from half a million. Cheap houses are everywhere, and you can have as much built-up as you wish.
Another thing, with vehicles dwindling in numbers, our air will be a whole lot more pristine. The pollution issue will be a thing of the past. We also no longer need to worry about things like temples and churches, as well as racial issues.
Malaysia will be one of the most liveable places on this planet.
Of course, we can predict the country’s future from a more orthodox perspective.
With people leaving, funds and factories moving out, shops closed and supermarkets half as crowded, there will be no need of growing vegetables in Cameron Highlands, or rearing pigs at Paya Mengkuang…
That reminds me of an African state called Zimbabwe. 30 years ago, the country–then called Rhodesia–was governed by a group of elite whites.
Black leader Robert Mugabe staged a revolt and successfully toppled the white administration, returning the sovereignty to the blacks once again.
Such a development was in completely conformity to the rules of democracy, and was absolutely correct, politically.
In a country where the blacks constitute the majority of local population, the whites simply should not take control of the helm.
But the problem was: after Mugabe took over the country, he implemented populist policies, marginalising the white residents and resorting to all sorts of means to usurp the social resources and completely sideline the whites.
The whites, who lost their mines and farm, shops and lands, had to pack up and leave the country in droves.
The Zimbabwean ecomomy collapsed and inflation rates soared as high as 230,000,000%, with unemployment at a mind-boggling 80%.
The country was in tatters, with severe political turmoil and widespread systemic corruption. Public hygiene was in an appalling state, with average lifespan down to 37 years and 40% of all adult citizens infected with AIDS.
Redistribution took the place of fair competition; assistance of meritocracy; and privileges of equality.
The eventuality of populist and racist politics is going down the Zimbabwe way.
