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Free-Riding the Singapore Welfare System
By Growing your tree of prosperity  •  September 5, 2020
The term "free-rider" is currently having its day on the Internet. As I've made a decision to many years ago to align more fully with our Capitalist system rather than the Political system, I think my actual aim is to find as many legitimate means to free-ride in Singapore, always put in slightly less to extract maximum benefits from the system. The truth is that the kind of moves I make are quite noob-level. An ordinary employee can use the following means to free-ride in Singapore today :
  • Open an SRS account, put in the maximum $15,300 every to get tax deductibles.
  • Inject $7,000 into you and your spouse's CPF-SA.
  • Take more public transport as it is running at a loss and funded by tax-payer money.
  • If you serve NS, use credits to buy New Balance running shoes. I even got a pair for my dad.
If you level up as an investor, you bring free-riding to a whole new level. Singapore is a welfare-state for the rentier.
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By Growing your tree of prosperity
I have recently completed my Juris Doctor and I am waiting to be called by the Singapore Bar. For the past 15 years I was an IT manager and I have worked in multinationals, financial exchanges, trade unions and even a government agency. I started my career as an AS/400 administrator and moved on to manage IT projects and operations
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