Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Go Singapore for the Olympics, but I've noticed two things. The sports which win us medals are either represented by people who are either very young, like teenagers, or foreigners. Granted that they may be the best in their field for the nation, but isn't there a problem there that needs to be solved? I've seen the kind of people that Australia has sent to represent them at the Olympics, and they look like true Olympians, not some teen who has to worry about their A's at the end of the year.
Maybe Singapore's emphasis on human capital has become so good, that everyone in Singapore, especially sportsmen can work and do sports. But as human, eventually there will come a time to choose between committing to work or to sport, and we will obviously choose the one that pays more won't we? Screw passion, when doing the next best thing pays me twice as much. And it's not like I can't play the sport anymore? Just not at a competitive level. In addition, how many parents will ever really see Singapore sports as anything more than just a form of leisure? I know that if chosen to invest money between a hardworking Singaporean employee, and a hardworking Singaporean sportsman, I will choose the employee as will many others.
Of course other presenting the problem, I do have a solution, but one that is probably going to be rejected in parliament for being too dictator-like. Sometimes I wonder if the communist way or state planning would achieve greater heights for Singapore.
Dan
9:59 pm
