We have a problem.
We have a big problem.
We are living in a post war era. Majority of the world are living in peace. Education are not meant for the privileged rich anymore. We have access to knowledge to Universities and Google. Jobs are readily available. We are literally working at home right now. Our system being flushed with money.
According to the World Bank, the 2019 literacy rate is at 86.47% as compared to 66.91% in 1976. Back closer to home, Singapore’s literacy rate stands at 97.34%, with 88.89% of our population having enrolled in tertiary education. It is impressive how far we have become in terms of literacy.
Despite that, CareerBuilder found that 78% of U.S. workers are living paycheck to paycheck. In Singapore, we can only guess the amount of people who is living from paycheck to paycheck as we do not have a statistic on it. Based on an article by HRAsia in 2015,...