Money

Singapore. Elitism. Money. In school, it’s your exam results; at work, it’s your monthly income. The more the merrier. There are only 2 groups: [Elites], and [Others].

Principles, Karma, Moral/Ethics. Ideologies for us poor and weak to feel better about our pathetic lives. These are really redundant things which can be easily overwritten by money.

Principles:

These are really just threshold values which can be easily covered by money.

Say a rich man goes to a pub and he wants a particular girl in bed.

He offers $100, she’d prolly say “Are you f**king crazy?!”

He offers $1000, she’d prolly still reject him, abiding by her highly “principles”.

He offers $10 000, she’d be in some hotel, and prolly throw in extra services and sound effects to earn more tips.

Principles? What Principles?

Karma

This one is even easier to explain. There is no logic to it at all.

Say 2 person David and Kenny. David is a high flyer, getting up the ranks by unscrupulous means. Kenny is a lowly subordinate of David. So David keep exploiting  Kenny, claiming all the credits, gets promoted, earns even more money. Kenny believes in karma, and believe that being a nice person, he’ll get rewarded.

Guess what? In the end, David lives in luxury, have a beautiful wife, has almost everything one would ever want. Kenny? He leads a pathetic life, struggling to make ends meet, can’t get a wife, die alone.

Morals/Ethics

Well, there’s nothing much needed to say, the previous 2 examples already shown that morals/ethics are redundant.

Why are such redundant things still so popular then? Simple, because people seek comfort in such ideas, and the media always show stories which glorifies such ideologies.

Taking a common scenario which always occur on TV. Say David has a girlfriend Penny, and Kenny also like Penny. David is a jerk, betrays Penny and have many other girls than Penny. Penny knows that. Kenny treats Penny really nice, and he really loves her, Penny also have some feelings for Kenny.

In the TV, Penny get sick of David, and marry Kenny instead.

In real life, Penny marrys David, David still fools around. Kenny? Well sucks to be him.

Money is not the most important thing, it is the only thing which matters.

[PS. In case you're thinking I'm some elite laughing at losers, my life is more like Kenny's (sadly), and it's not remotely possible that I can win David.]