Malay economics and the sharing of a perceived Zero sum pie. Part 1. Sontoloyo series no 38

1. The law as it were, meant to uplift the Malays as a whole, is the set of affirmative laws.

2. Any of the laws giving any preferential treatment and handicaps to malays.

3. I mentioned the word handicap because the word is associated with the great tun Razak. Hailed by many as the chief architect of the NEP.

4. Ethic differences in general socio economic attainments-he likened to a game of golf.

5. The Malays, he says being the poorest among the races in Malaysia must be given handicaps.

6. So that,they could catch up with the other races.

7. One question before we go ón. If the Chinese and indians get ahead of the Malays without the benefit of affirmative laws, why must the Malays operate under affirmative laws?

8. The affirmative laws appear to accept that Malays are inherently inferior than the other races. No?

9. Right from the start, we are moving from the wrong premise. We malays are taught to accept we are inherently inferior.

10. Maybe we are more stupid, less hardworking, given to pleasure seeking more, etc.

11. This inherently inferior quality can't be right.

12. Malay students sent or go overseas to study , operate under a non affirmative environment. They operate under free competition environment. Yet they can succeed.

13. Which can only mean that an affirmative environment is not absolutely needed for malays to succeed.

14. To my mind, what is needed more, is the right mental attitude.

15. The want to mentality, willingness to compete and have a personal motto to excell.

16. Don't let any of the ecclesiastical mother fuckers be telling you that worldly excellence is anti spiritual and therefore not good for the soul.

17. Our motto now is to be rich is glorious.

18. For the Malay Muslims, there's a Hadith saying to work for the material word as though you will live forever.

19. The flip side says to work for the afterlife world as though you are going to die tomorrow.

20. This maybe too philosophical for you. For the Malays , the late sanusi junid had a worldly and practical guide .

21. For the Malays he coined the acronym ABDRS.

22. The A stands for amanah, honest, conscientious etc.

23. Doing an honest and conscientious job means doing what your job requires of you. Don't be stealing bone/ curi tulang .

24. Time spent on coffee breaks , outweighs time spent doing actual work

25. Time spent at Ah Beng 'masat parlour' doing field work is more than time spent on actual productive work.

26. The A also means you be honest personally. Don't steal or take what is not yours.

27. When a Najib or a Ismail sabri or the other UMNO goons stole, they are being UMNO not Malay.

28. The real Malay would be regulated by moral and his religious teachings.

29. When these people steal, they are morally deficient and at that time, God does not exist to them.

30. When Najib and Ismail stole they were morally Nillionaire and godless at that time.

31. 2 wrongs which must be corrected with the harshest of punishments.Such as jail time.

32. Unfortunately somebody in power now dislike jailing.

33. What's this? A bourgeois and genteel sensibilities of justice?

34. The B stands for bravery and courage. Brave to change things, brave to overthrow the status quo, brave to disown UMNO.

35. Bravery or courage says Churchill is the 1st virtue giving birth to other virtues. Cultivate it .

36. The D stands for discipline. Adherence to a set of rules , organized purposefully to achieve certain goals and objectives. Eg. Raising bumiputra income to a certain level

37. Deviation from these rules like tomfoolering around will result in failure in achieving the objectives.

38. R stands for working hard. There is no substitute for working hard to get prosperity .

39. For UMNO it's different. It's definition of hard work is let the rakyat work and they fleeced the prosperity created .

40. The S stands for setia or loyalty. Let's be clear it's not being unconditionally loyal to UMNO.

41. We are loyal to the greater good. The Malay is bigger than UMNO .

42. Know this. UMNO operates on a zero sum thinking. Robbing Paul to pay Peter.

43. No law can make the poor rich. But the same law can make a rich country, poor.

44. You can't legislate prosperity. By operating the affirmative laws, we all in the end, share the ensuing misery.