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\nMacau Business | June 2024
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nLike many other parts of the world, Macau is experiencing a population change. It is common knowledge that Macau\u2019s population is living longer. In 2013, the proportion of its population aged 65 and above was 8.4 per cent; in 2023 it was 14 per cent, projected to rise to 23.3 per cent in 2034. Further, the number of people in the 25 to 34 age group, i.e. those who might have children, whilst they comprised 16.7 per cent of the population in 2023, is projected to fall to 10.2 per cent in 2034. As graph 1 shows, in the last ten years Macau\u2019s population aged 65 and above grew dramatically, by 85 per cent (rounded), whilst the number of live births fell by half (49.57 per cent) (see graph 2). The younger population (aged 0-4 years) is projected to fall from 4.3 per cent in 2023 to 3.4 per cent in 2034.
\n\n\n\nThe ramifications of these simple figures are already engaging Macau\u2019s government, for example, building accommodation for the increasing elderly population in Macau. Nevertheless, more can be done for elderly health services. Why are there daily queues of elderly patients waiting for treatment in Macau\u2019s hospitals and health centres? What is being done to augment the massively over-stretched and under-provided mental health provision and services in Macau, to promote well-being, and, indeed, not only for the elderly but for all age groups? Despite recent building programmes, there are still insufficient homes for the elderly providing a decent, stimulating, and caring environment, together with a high quality of life rather than endurance and suffering in a socially withering, boring environment.
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We hear many, many stories of young adults of child-rearing age in Macau deciding not to have children. It is little surprise that the birth rate is falling in Macau. Why is this? What incentives and provisions are there for bringing children into the world in Macau? Can young Macau couples afford to have children? In other parts of the world, financial help from the government for all parents bringing up children lasts until the children are 18 years of age, regardless of parents\u2019 income, i.e. equality for all. Not so in Macau. This raises an ongoing and massive agenda, regarding affordable accommodation, job security, and sufficient income to raise children, to give them a reasonable, enjoyable childhood and subsequent adulthood. These point to the need for considerable investment in improving health care, education, providing for children, social welfare, ensuring their well-being and a positive and stimulating environment for bringing up children with their families, not only giving individual handouts; it is a system-level as well as an individual-level support matter. No wonder, perhaps, that fewer people in Macau have babies.
\n\n\n\nIt is difficult to reconcile Macau\u2019s huge GDP and steps taken to further its \u2018gold business card\u2019, with the need for all its population, young and old, to have a better quality of life. Where is Macau\u2019s government providing sufficient all-round care and support for the elderly and child rearing in Macau? Only with having all these available and accessible services and support will the elderly be able to look forward to retirement without apprehension, fear, and despair, and will the younger, child-bearing population be able to afford to have children and give them a decent life. This places societal welfare at the top of a government agenda, not simply the amassing of wealth, flourishing business, and putting crowded streets of tourists at the topic of the \u2018to do\u2019 list.
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Source: DSEC (latest annual data)
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | June 2024\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLike many other parts of the world, Macau is experiencing a population change. It is common knowledge that Macau\u2019s population is living longer. In 2013, the proportion of its population aged 65 and above was 8.4 per cent; in 2023 it was 14 per cent, projected to rise to 23.3 per cent in 2034. Further, the number of people in the 25 to 34 age group, i.e. those who might have children, whilst they comprised 16.7 per cent of the population in 2023, is projected to fall to 10.2 per cent in 2034. As graph 1 shows, in the last ten years Macau\u2019s population aged 65 and above grew dramatically, by 85 per cent (rounded), whilst the number of live births fell by half (49.57 per cent) (see graph 2). The younger population (aged 0-4 years) is projected to fall from 4.3 per cent in 2023 to 3.4 per cent in 2034.\n\n\n\nThe ramifications of these simple figures are already engaging Macau\u2019s government, for example, building accommodation for the increasing elderly population in Macau. Nevertheless, more can be done for elderly health services. Why are there daily queues of elderly patients waiting for treatment in Macau\u2019s hospitals and health centres? What is being done to augment the massively over-stretched and under-provided mental health provision and services in Macau, to promote well-being, and, indeed, not only for the elderly but for all age groups? Despite recent building programmes, there are still insufficient homes for the elderly providing a decent, stimulating, and caring environment, together with a high quality of life rather than endurance and suffering in a socially withering, boring environment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe hear many, many stories of young adults of child-rearing age in Macau deciding not to have children. It is little surprise that the birth rate is falling in Macau. Why is this? What incentives and provisions are there for bringing children into the world in Macau? Can young Macau couples afford to have children? In other parts of the world, financial help from the government for all parents bringing up children lasts until the children are 18 years of age, regardless of parents\u2019 income, i.e. equality for all. Not so in Macau. This raises an ongoing and massive agenda, regarding affordable accommodation, job security, and sufficient income to raise children, to give them a reasonable, enjoyable childhood and subsequent adulthood. These point to the need for considerable investment in improving health care, education, providing for children, social welfare, ensuring their well-being and a positive and stimulating environment for bringing up children with their families, not only giving individual handouts; it is a system-level as well as an individual-level support matter. No wonder, perhaps, that fewer people in Macau have babies.\n\n\n\nIt is difficult to reconcile Macau\u2019s huge GDP and steps taken to further its \u2018gold business card\u2019, with the need for all its population, young and old, to have a better quality of life. Where is Macau\u2019s government providing sufficient all-round care and support for the elderly and child rearing in Macau? Only with having all these available and accessible services and support will the elderly be able to look forward to retirement without apprehension, fear, and despair, and will the younger, child-bearing population be able to afford to have children and give them a decent life. This places societal welfare at the top of a government agenda, not simply the amassing of wealth, flourishing business, and putting crowded streets of tourists at the topic of the \u2018to do\u2019 list.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource: DSEC (latest annual data)", "date_published": "July 21, 2024", "date_modified": "July 20, 2024 - 15:34", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2017/08/population.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Like many other parts of the world, Macau is experiencing a population change. It is common knowledge that Macau\u2019s population is living longer. 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\nMacau Business | June 2024
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nYou may have watched America\u2019s Got Talent, Britain\u2019s Got Talent, Australia\u2019s Got Talent. In fact, many countries have their own similar reality shows. But put those aside, because now Macau\u2019s got talent. It\u2019s true. Not the ear-splitting glitzy singers, endearing little children, dancers, magicians, and comedic acrobats. No, Macau can do better than these; Macau\u2019s got real talent. Reportedly, Macau is good at science, engineering, and technology. On top of this, it needs even more people with expertise in high-tech, computer science and applications, big health, and finance.
\n\n\n\nThe Macau government is reported to be offering a financial incentive to local \u2018high-end talents\u2019 to stay in Macau, along with attracting international experts. As the Secretary for Social affairs and Culture was reported to have said recently: \u2018We welcome scientific and technological talent from around the world to come to Macau to set up businesses and facilitate development\u2019. Add to this, bursting with life and excitement, is Macau\u2019s Talents Development Committee\u2019s alluring comment that its \u2018website provides high-paying job vacancies in five major occupational categories, including: corporate executives, professionals, highly skilled talents and applied talents. The salary of the vacancies is not lower than the median of the relevant occupational categories announced by the Bureau of Statistics.\u2019 Yawn.
\n\n\n\nMaybe the Talents Development Committee is disappointed that it has not recruited anyone who meets its eligibility criterion of having a Nobel prize, the Fields medal, the Turing Award, or the Shaw prize. So, Macau is turning to its own talents, paying them to stay, though reportedly offering them only \u2018slightly more\u2019 cash. Such incentives overlook the elephant in the room, even though several hundred applications are reported to have been received. And what is that elephant? Read on.
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Talents-2.-new.jpg\")
Whilst the endeavours of the Macau government are clearly well intentioned, the lack of suitably qualified and experienced workers in the identified key areas of need raises several questions. For example, how is it that the thousands of local students who graduate each year from Macau\u2019s higher education institutions with Master\u2019s and doctorate, and undergraduate degrees in the areas of need, are unsuitable for meeting the local needs, or who decide to work outside Macau, or to work in other employment? Why do local, highly talented people leave Macau or do not return from overseas? Why are suitably experienced international workers not only difficult to recruit but also difficult to retain? Why don\u2019t they want to come to, or stay in, Macau?
\n\n\n\nIn conducting a situational analysis of work opportunities, it is important to look at not only the upside of Macau, but also its downside. On the one hand, Macau is a safe city, most of its residents are delightful, it has some interesting sites, its low tax rate is attractive, and, for senior staff, it pays well. On the other hand, and this is the elephant in the room: (i) career development prospects are very limited in terms of promotion and diversity, with narrow fields of employment; (ii) many of its work cultures are over-hierarchical and over-authoritarian, with handed-down instructions for workers to obey compliantly; (iii) the labyrinthine bureaucracy of visas, work permits, and residency status is forbidding; (iv) government intrusion into private enterprises is oppressive; (v) Macau is monstrously overcrowded with both residents and tourists; (vi) it is a noisy, light-polluted, concrete jungle that lacks countryside and a nature-friendly environment, and its back streets are filthy and congested; (vii) accommodation is expensive; (viii) job security of international workers is fragile (they can be fired at the drop of a hat, as happened when thousands were kicked out at two weeks\u2019 notice in the Covid-19 pandemic); (ix) with only a few exceptions, its mass schooling is like turning back the clock 50+ years; (x) health services are suspect (people go outside Macau for diagnosis and treatment); (xi) Macau has become more geared to tourists than to its locals; (xii) Macau\u2019s residents have few societal and community benefits from the massive gaming income.
\n\n\n\nThe point here is that offering people cash to stay in Macau or to come to it for work pales into relative insignificance when balanced with quality of life, i.e. things that cash cannot buy. Macau seems to have talent in offering disincentives.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | June 2024\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou may have watched America\u2019s Got Talent, Britain\u2019s Got Talent, Australia\u2019s Got Talent. In fact, many countries have their own similar reality shows. But put those aside, because now Macau\u2019s got talent. It\u2019s true. Not the ear-splitting glitzy singers, endearing little children, dancers, magicians, and comedic acrobats. No, Macau can do better than these; Macau\u2019s got real talent. Reportedly, Macau is good at science, engineering, and technology. On top of this, it needs even more people with expertise in high-tech, computer science and applications, big health, and finance. \n\n\n\nThe Macau government is reported to be offering a financial incentive to local \u2018high-end talents\u2019 to stay in Macau, along with attracting international experts. As the Secretary for Social affairs and Culture was reported to have said recently: \u2018We welcome scientific and technological talent from around the world to come to Macau to set up businesses and facilitate development\u2019. Add to this, bursting with life and excitement, is Macau\u2019s Talents Development Committee\u2019s alluring comment that its \u2018website provides high-paying job vacancies in five major occupational categories, including: corporate executives, professionals, highly skilled talents and applied talents. The salary of the vacancies is not lower than the median of the relevant occupational categories announced by the Bureau of Statistics.\u2019 Yawn. \n\n\n\nMaybe the Talents Development Committee is disappointed that it has not recruited anyone who meets its eligibility criterion of having a Nobel prize, the Fields medal, the Turing Award, or the Shaw prize. So, Macau is turning to its own talents, paying them to stay, though reportedly offering them only \u2018slightly more\u2019 cash. Such incentives overlook the elephant in the room, even though several hundred applications are reported to have been received. And what is that elephant? Read on.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhilst the endeavours of the Macau government are clearly well intentioned, the lack of suitably qualified and experienced workers in the identified key areas of need raises several questions. For example, how is it that the thousands of local students who graduate each year from Macau\u2019s higher education institutions with Master\u2019s and doctorate, and undergraduate degrees in the areas of need, are unsuitable for meeting the local needs, or who decide to work outside Macau, or to work in other employment? Why do local, highly talented people leave Macau or do not return from overseas? Why are suitably experienced international workers not only difficult to recruit but also difficult to retain? Why don\u2019t they want to come to, or stay in, Macau?\n\n\n\nIn conducting a situational analysis of work opportunities, it is important to look at not only the upside of Macau, but also its downside. On the one hand, Macau is a safe city, most of its residents are delightful, it has some interesting sites, its low tax rate is attractive, and, for senior staff, it pays well. On the other hand, and this is the elephant in the room: (i) career development prospects are very limited in terms of promotion and diversity, with narrow fields of employment; (ii) many of its work cultures are over-hierarchical and over-authoritarian, with handed-down instructions for workers to obey compliantly; (iii) the labyrinthine bureaucracy of visas, work permits, and residency status is forbidding; (iv) government intrusion into private enterprises is oppressive; (v) Macau is monstrously overcrowded with both residents and tourists; (vi) it is a noisy, light-polluted, concrete jungle that lacks countryside and a nature-friendly environment, and its back streets are filthy and congested; (vii) accommodation is expensive; (viii) job security of international workers is fragile (they can be fired at the drop of a hat, as happened when thousands were kicked out at two weeks\u2019 notice in the Covid-19 pandemic); (ix) with only a few exceptions, its mass schooling is like turning back the clock 50+ years; (x) health services are suspect (people go outside Macau for diagnosis and treatment); (xi) Macau has become more geared to tourists than to its locals; (xii) Macau\u2019s residents have few societal and community benefits from the massive gaming income.\n\n\n\nThe point here is that offering people cash to stay in Macau or to come to it for work pales into relative insignificance when balanced with quality of life, i.e. things that cash cannot buy. Macau seems to have talent in offering disincentives.", "date_published": "June 16, 2024", "date_modified": "June 15, 2024 - 01:39", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2017/08/talents.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "You may have watched America\u2019s Got Talent, Britain\u2019s Got Talent, Australia\u2019s Got Talent. In fact, many countries have their own similar reality shows. But put those aside, because now Macau\u2019s got talent." }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e7%9a%84%e7%bd%ae%e6%a5%ad%e5%b9%bb%e6%83%b3%e6%9b%b2/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e7%9a%84%e7%bd%ae%e6%a5%ad%e5%b9%bb%e6%83%b3%e6%9b%b2/", "title": "\u3010\u6642\u4e8b\u8a55\u8ad6\u3011\u6fb3\u9580\u7684\u7f6e\u696d\u5e7b\u60f3\u66f2", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Seak-Pai-Van-2-LA-1-150x150.jpg\")
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\nMacau Business | May 2024
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nThe year-on-year drop in Macau\u2019s residential property index (RPI) (a measure of the change in the average price paid by households for residential properties) shows little sign of abating. Gone are the pre-pandemic days of massive residential price increases. From November 2022 to January 2023 the overall RPI fell by 7.4 per cent year on year; from November 2023 to January 2024 it fell by 5.6 per cent year on year (latest figures at the time of writing). For the Macao peninsula, the fall for the same periods was 7.7 per cent and 5.2 per cent respectively; for Taipa/Coloane it was 6.3 per cent and 7.4 per cent respectively. These are significant falls. One would have thought that this was good news for residential property buyers, but is it?
\n\n\n\nNot much. This is little solace for thousands of would-be residential property owners in Macau. And why? Because such property is still unaffordable for very many people. Whether a property is 6 million MOP or 16 million MOP makes little difference if you cannot afford either, and both are beyond the reach of many of Macau\u2019s citizens. Macau\u2019s property price-to-income ratio for March 2024 was rated as \u2018very high\u2019 by Numbeo, one of the world\u2019s largest cost-of-living databases.
\n\n\n\nThe solution is not simply to provide more residential properties. Rather, it depends on what is affordable, available, and in the appropriate price bracket for new starters on the property ladder. It is not rocket science to work this out; Economics 101: supply and demand. Providing affordable residential property for purchase is a problem that will not go away, since, as the graph shows, the ongoing rise in Macau\u2019s population continues to outstrip the number of vacant residential units.
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Seak-Pai-Van-2-LA-1.jpg\")
There is only a small correlation between population and vacant residential units in the last ten years (32 per cent for statistics geeks), there being many other factors involved in finding residential property for Macau\u2019s citizens. However, this does little to ease the plight of those in the 28-34 age group (115,000 people), i.e. those seeking to start on the property ladder. They appear to have no hope of ever being able to buy their own property. Rather, they are condemned to paying rent for years with nothing to show for it, whilst filling the pockets of lessors who raise the rent at will. Lessees in this age group are unable to amass sufficient money to pay for the initial deposit on a property, unless, as one sees in other parts of the world, the family members, typically the parents, are the bank.
\n\n\n\nPut it this way: if you are in a senior position at work (administrator, manager, or professional), or a technician, i.e. 34 per cent of the employed resident population, then your median salary (27,000 MOP and higher) might let you start on the residential property ladder. But how many of those in the 25-34 age group (currently 75,000, i.e. 26 per cent of the resident workforce) are at this level of job and salary? In Macau, 187,800 people (66 per cent of the resident workforce) earn a median monthly salary below 20,000 MOP; how will they ever have enough money to buy their own residential property? Answer: they won\u2019t.
\n\n\n\nThe press for cheap, affordable residential property is immense. Even though the well-intentioned Macau government is taking steps to address this, those in the 28-34 age bracket still find it unaffordable. The drop in the residential property index offers little comfort to those who are on low incomes, so property owners and rentiers continue to leech money from the low paid, greedily reluctant to bring down their prices. Where is the affordable vacant residential property for purchase by the low-paid in Macau?
\n\n\n\nWhy does there continue to be insufficient affordable residential accommodation for so many of Macau\u2019s employed resident population to purchase and, thereby, to live in the security of their own home? What security of accommodation is there in a territory that purports to place such significance on security? Maybe security here is about what you cannot do rather than what you can do in Macau.
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Picture1-1-1028x554.png\")
Source: DSEC (latest figures available)
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | May 2024\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe year-on-year drop in Macau\u2019s residential property index (RPI) (a measure of the change in the average price paid by households for residential properties) shows little sign of abating. Gone are the pre-pandemic days of massive residential price increases. From November 2022 to January 2023 the overall RPI fell by 7.4 per cent year on year; from November 2023 to January 2024 it fell by 5.6 per cent year on year (latest figures at the time of writing). For the Macao peninsula, the fall for the same periods was 7.7 per cent and 5.2 per cent respectively; for Taipa/Coloane it was 6.3 per cent and 7.4 per cent respectively. These are significant falls. One would have thought that this was good news for residential property buyers, but is it?\n\n\n\nNot much. This is little solace for thousands of would-be residential property owners in Macau. And why? Because such property is still unaffordable for very many people. Whether a property is 6 million MOP or 16 million MOP makes little difference if you cannot afford either, and both are beyond the reach of many of Macau\u2019s citizens. Macau\u2019s property price-to-income ratio for March 2024 was rated as \u2018very high\u2019 by Numbeo, one of the world\u2019s largest cost-of-living databases. \n\n\n\nThe solution is not simply to provide more residential properties. Rather, it depends on what is affordable, available, and in the appropriate price bracket for new starters on the property ladder. It is not rocket science to work this out; Economics 101: supply and demand. Providing affordable residential property for purchase is a problem that will not go away, since, as the graph shows, the ongoing rise in Macau\u2019s population continues to outstrip the number of vacant residential units. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere is only a small correlation between population and vacant residential units in the last ten years (32 per cent for statistics geeks), there being many other factors involved in finding residential property for Macau\u2019s citizens. However, this does little to ease the plight of those in the 28-34 age group (115,000 people), i.e. those seeking to start on the property ladder. They appear to have no hope of ever being able to buy their own property. Rather, they are condemned to paying rent for years with nothing to show for it, whilst filling the pockets of lessors who raise the rent at will. Lessees in this age group are unable to amass sufficient money to pay for the initial deposit on a property, unless, as one sees in other parts of the world, the family members, typically the parents, are the bank. \n\n\n\nPut it this way: if you are in a senior position at work (administrator, manager, or professional), or a technician, i.e. 34 per cent of the employed resident population, then your median salary (27,000 MOP and higher) might let you start on the residential property ladder. But how many of those in the 25-34 age group (currently 75,000, i.e. 26 per cent of the resident workforce) are at this level of job and salary? In Macau, 187,800 people (66 per cent of the resident workforce) earn a median monthly salary below 20,000 MOP; how will they ever have enough money to buy their own residential property? Answer: they won\u2019t.\n\n\n\nThe press for cheap, affordable residential property is immense. Even though the well-intentioned Macau government is taking steps to address this, those in the 28-34 age bracket still find it unaffordable. The drop in the residential property index offers little comfort to those who are on low incomes, so property owners and rentiers continue to leech money from the low paid, greedily reluctant to bring down their prices. Where is the affordable vacant residential property for purchase by the low-paid in Macau?\n\n\n\nWhy does there continue to be insufficient affordable residential accommodation for so many of Macau\u2019s employed resident population to purchase and, thereby, to live in the security of their own home? What security of accommodation is there in a territory that purports to place such significance on security? Maybe security here is about what you cannot do rather than what you can do in Macau.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource: DSEC (latest figures available)", "date_published": "May 24, 2024", "date_modified": "May 25, 2024 - 05:52", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Social-housing01-LA_5789.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "The year-on-year drop in Macau\u2019s residential property index (RPI) (a measure of the change in the average price paid by households for residential properties) shows little sign of abating." }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-the-scourge-of-the-cellphone/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-the-scourge-of-the-cellphone/", "title": "OPINION \u2013 The scourge of the cellphone", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mobile-technology-social-media-150x150.png\")
\nMacau Business | April 2024
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nLike many inventions, the cellphone is a blessing and a curse of our times. Consider these observed examples of what happens when families get together for a restaurant meal, e.g. Chinese New Year, mid-autumn festival, and so on. \u2018A nice idea\u2019, you might think, but see if the following real-life events are your experience.
\n\n\n\nWhich is more important, a child or a cellphone? Two parents and their young child (four or five years old) were dining in a local Macau restaurant. \u2018Very nice to see a family together\u2019, you might think; but wait. The parents were \u2018on their cellphones\u2019, ignoring him. Like the baby in the celebrated \u2018still face experiment\u2019 by Edward Tronick and his associates in 1975, the young boy tried a range of actions to attract his parents\u2019 attention, making loud noises, swinging on furniture and doors, running around, approaching strangers, and so on. Did it work? Not really; when he made so much noise as to distract his parents, they scolded him and then went back to their cellphones. Shameful, negligent role models.
\n\n\n\nWhich is more important, your partner or a cellphone? In another Macau restaurant there was a young couple. Were they engaged with each other, and conversing? No; they were preoccupied with their own cellphones.
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Which is more important, your grandma or a cellphone? In another Macau restaurant was a family with their elderly grandma. A nice treat? Well, no. In a society that supposedly espouses respect for the elderly, what happened? The family members, when they were not shouting at each other across the table, spent the time on their own cellphones, even when eating, whilst grandma, phoneless, sat still and silent, looking around the restaurant, alone, bored, and waiting for contact that never came. What neglect. Next time you are in a restaurant, look at groups of people and count how many are on their individual cellphones.
\n\n\n\nWhich is more important, your workplace colleague or a cellphone? How many times a day does a colleague come to you, then their cellphone sounds to indicate that a message or a call has arrived, so everything stops whilst your colleague answers it. You are left sitting there, useless, waiting until your colleague has the graciousness to continue talking to you. The message? You take second place to an object. I fume silently but patiently each time this happens to me. Nor am I impressed when people tell me that this is in case there is an emergency, or that this is modern day society, so get over it. No, it\u2019s not society at all; it is individuals engaged in obsessional subservience to an object, in which instant accessibility and immediate gratification push human, face-to-face interaction down the pecking order. How many times each day does this happen to you?
\n\n\n\nWhich is more important, a life or a cellphone? Despite recent government legislation on jaywalkers and the ban on looking at your cellphone whilst crossing the road, I tire of still having to swerve my car to avoid some stupid, yes stupid, person stepping into, or walking along, the road with the road sense of a drunken ant, fixated on their cellphone. So I blare my car horn for many seconds, which makes them jump, freeze, or give me a sour scowl, which satisfies me hugely.
\n\n\n\nI don\u2019t know if the downside of cellphone usage is simply evidence of an inability to break out of Pavlovian behaviourism applied to humans rather than to salivating dogs, or humans\u2019 selective negligence as a feature of learning, or their moral ineptitude in treating people as less important than a piece of equipment, or whatever. Cellphone addiction instances humans\u2019 inability to cope with a modern-day siren song; a clear example of dependency and the fallout from a refashioned 1960s dangerous hallucinogen.
\n\n\n\nOne would have thought that the findings of research on dysfunctional human behaviour and its causes and outcomes, even if one reaches back only a few decades, would have impacted on families, interpersonal behaviour, workplace relations, and road sense, but apparently not. Humans have a marked inability to learn when it matters.
\n\n\n\nThe cellphone instances the poet Yeats\u2019s words, when commenting on another event, writing that \u2018a terrible beauty is born\u2019. How is it that cellphones have brought not only benefits barely imaginable a generation ago, but have powered up preventable social decline? Is this really the best that Macau can do for its values and claims of community and concern for society?
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | April 2024\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLike many inventions, the cellphone is a blessing and a curse of our times. Consider these observed examples of what happens when families get together for a restaurant meal, e.g. Chinese New Year, mid-autumn festival, and so on. \u2018A nice idea\u2019, you might think, but see if the following real-life events are your experience.\n\n\n\nWhich is more important, a child or a cellphone? Two parents and their young child (four or five years old) were dining in a local Macau restaurant. \u2018Very nice to see a family together\u2019, you might think; but wait. The parents were \u2018on their cellphones\u2019, ignoring him. Like the baby in the celebrated \u2018still face experiment\u2019 by Edward Tronick and his associates in 1975, the young boy tried a range of actions to attract his parents\u2019 attention, making loud noises, swinging on furniture and doors, running around, approaching strangers, and so on. Did it work? Not really; when he made so much noise as to distract his parents, they scolded him and then went back to their cellphones. Shameful, negligent role models.\n\n\n\nWhich is more important, your partner or a cellphone? In another Macau restaurant there was a young couple. Were they engaged with each other, and conversing? No; they were preoccupied with their own cellphones. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhich is more important, your grandma or a cellphone? In another Macau restaurant was a family with their elderly grandma. A nice treat? Well, no. In a society that supposedly espouses respect for the elderly, what happened? The family members, when they were not shouting at each other across the table, spent the time on their own cellphones, even when eating, whilst grandma, phoneless, sat still and silent, looking around the restaurant, alone, bored, and waiting for contact that never came. What neglect. Next time you are in a restaurant, look at groups of people and count how many are on their individual cellphones.\n\n\n\nWhich is more important, your workplace colleague or a cellphone? How many times a day does a colleague come to you, then their cellphone sounds to indicate that a message or a call has arrived, so everything stops whilst your colleague answers it. You are left sitting there, useless, waiting until your colleague has the graciousness to continue talking to you. The message? You take second place to an object. I fume silently but patiently each time this happens to me. Nor am I impressed when people tell me that this is in case there is an emergency, or that this is modern day society, so get over it. No, it\u2019s not society at all; it is individuals engaged in obsessional subservience to an object, in which instant accessibility and immediate gratification push human, face-to-face interaction down the pecking order. How many times each day does this happen to you?\n\n\n\nWhich is more important, a life or a cellphone? Despite recent government legislation on jaywalkers and the ban on looking at your cellphone whilst crossing the road, I tire of still having to swerve my car to avoid some stupid, yes stupid, person stepping into, or walking along, the road with the road sense of a drunken ant, fixated on their cellphone. So I blare my car horn for many seconds, which makes them jump, freeze, or give me a sour scowl, which satisfies me hugely.\n\n\n\nI don\u2019t know if the downside of cellphone usage is simply evidence of an inability to break out of Pavlovian behaviourism applied to humans rather than to salivating dogs, or humans\u2019 selective negligence as a feature of learning, or their moral ineptitude in treating people as less important than a piece of equipment, or whatever. Cellphone addiction instances humans\u2019 inability to cope with a modern-day siren song; a clear example of dependency and the fallout from a refashioned 1960s dangerous hallucinogen. \n\n\n\nOne would have thought that the findings of research on dysfunctional human behaviour and its causes and outcomes, even if one reaches back only a few decades, would have impacted on families, interpersonal behaviour, workplace relations, and road sense, but apparently not. Humans have a marked inability to learn when it matters. \n\n\n\nThe cellphone instances the poet Yeats\u2019s words, when commenting on another event, writing that \u2018a terrible beauty is born\u2019. How is it that cellphones have brought not only benefits barely imaginable a generation ago, but have powered up preventable social decline? Is this really the best that Macau can do for its values and claims of community and concern for society?", "date_published": "April 28, 2024", "date_modified": "April 26, 2024 - 15:16", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mobile-technology-social-media.png", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Like many inventions, the cellphone is a blessing and a curse of our times. Consider these observed examples of what happens when families get together for a restaurant meal, e.g. Chinese New Year, mid-autumn festival, and so on. \u2018A nice idea\u2019, you might think, but see if the following real-life events are your experience." }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%89%8b%e6%a9%9f%e4%b9%8b%e7%a6%8d/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%89%8b%e6%a9%9f%e4%b9%8b%e7%a6%8d/", "title": "\u3010\u6642\u4e8b\u8a55\u8ad6\u3011\u624b\u6a5f\u4e4b\u798d", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2020/07/DOC.20200723.29256226.08562765-150x150.jpg\")
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"https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2020/07/DOC.20200723.29256226.08562765.jpg", "tags": [ "Business Intelligence", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "\u548c\u8a31\u591a\u767c\u660e\u4e00\u6a23\uff0c\u624b\u6a5f\u662f\u6211\u5011\u9019\u500b\u6642\u4ee3\u7684\u795d\u798f\uff0c\u4e5f\u662f\u8a5b\u5492\u3002\u60f3\u60f3\u65e5\u5e38\u751f\u6d3b\u4e2d\u9047\u5230\u7684\u4e8b\u4f8b\u5427\u3002\u6bcf\u9022\u4f73\u7bc0\uff0c\u5bb6\u5ead\u805a\u9910\u4e4b\u6642\uff0c\u4f60\u6216\u6703\u60f3\uff0c\u201c\u9019\u662f\u500b\u597d\u4e3b\u610f\u201d\uff0c\u73fe\u5be6\u537b\u5f80\u5f80\u4e0d\u76e1\u4eba\u610f\u3002 " }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-waste-or-waste-management-in-todays-macau/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-waste-or-waste-management-in-todays-macau/", "title": "OPINION \u2013 Waste or waste management in today\u2019s Macau?", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Waste-management-150x150.png\")
\nMacau Business | March 2024
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nWhat springs to your mind when you hear the term \u2018waste management\u2019? Solid and liquid waste disposal? Recycling? Save the earth? Waste creation? Waste prevention? Waste treatment? Plastics? Sustainability? Of course, it is all of these, and plenty more. Waste management touches everything, nor is it new; consider Vance Packard\u2019s 1960 prescient publication \u2018The Waste Makers\u2019.
\n\n\n\nMacau has a long way to go in waste management, even though the large casino resorts are in the vanguard of practices here. The latest annual figures indicate that, in one year alone, Macau had 2.3 million cubic metres of construction waste, 437,000 tonnes of municipal waste, and 223,000 cubic metres of water treated each day. For decades, many parts of the world have required households to separate their waste into different types, to be collected at different times in a regular schedule: glass, cans, plastics, paper, food, organic matter, furniture, batteries, etc. But not in Macau. Here, even if households separate their waste (which is light years away from being universal or required), what happens then? Oh, easy; they are all mixed up again when the garbage is collected, i.e. a complete waste of time. Not a record to be proud of.
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2018/02/04-environment.jpg\")
But wait a moment; that\u2019s only the conventional field of waste, concerning materials of different kinds. Waste management applies much more widely, and Macau is a nice example of this.
\n\n\n\nFor example, how about wastage of public money? Think of the over-sized light rail stations, or the cathedral-sized Pac On ferry terminal, or Macau\u2019s immigration and customs building at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge, with its mini-marathon walking distance and carry-a-case escalator obstacle course, or the conspicuous failure to solve the still permanently congested Pearl roundabout at the Avenida da Ponte de Amizade, despite massive roadworks. What glorious waste creations. And how is it that construction projects in Macau go to the lowest bidder rather than to the most suitable bid? What startlingly successful opportunity waste.
\n\n\n\nWaste management addresses that which has been discarded as useless, superfluous, and unwanted. Who decides what counts as waste? There are many instances of a much wider needed interpretation of waste in Macau, that reaches beyond material waste. Consider, for example, the waste of human resources in Macau, where those who are qualified in a wide range of fields (often qualified abroad) find that there are no jobs for them in their fields in Macau, because of narrow employment prospects here. This is human creativity and talent waste, just when Macau is extolling the virtues of diversification and talent recruitment. Why is it that, in Macau, qualified pharmacists end up teaching English, trained psychologists end up as office staff, museum and gallery management experts end up as schoolteachers, and, indeed, qualified architects and scientists end up leaving Macau? What a waste.
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/4c11466ecccc7cac204d55ed2c8907c9.jpg\")
Waste of human resources includes unemployment (8,600 unemployed people in Macau, latest figure) in which there is discrimination by age, gender, ethnicity, race, and country of origin. Additionally, employee attrition sees workers quitting jobs because of poor working conditions. Macau has them all. What a waste.
\n\n\n\nOr consider the superfluity of senior managers in organisations and offices in Macau: organisational waste. Here the \u2018waste\u2019 in \u2018waste management\u2019 is adjectival: managers who are a waste. Why are Macau\u2019s organisations and offices top-heavy in senior managers whose main job, it appears, is to be noticed as they strut and fret their hour at an endless number of inconsequential, unnecessary meetings and public events? What a waste of time and money here: time taken to greet these divine top-rank managers; time for them to parade in front of the \u2018proles\u2019, their names read out for everyone to applaud; time for them to toast the \u2018great unwashed\u2019 who are present in envious awe with their cellphones at the ready to photograph the magnificence; and then time to bow and exit in order to compete in the most-expensive pickup limousine competition. But wait, let us not be hard on these overblown mannequins; they have the good grace to disappear immediately after the photo-taking, leaving the others to rejoice at having seen them, whilst not actually knowing who they were.
\n\n\n\nWhy is it that event after event sees these same VIPs present, smiling over their petit fours, wondering how to hold their glass, their single-use paper plate and plastic cutlery, without dropping them when shaking hands. This is senior manager waste: useless and superfluous would-be big fish in a small pond. To coin a cinematic phrase, maybe they should be \u2018wasted\u2019, but maybe this is ungenerous; after all, they are harmless because, in fact, they don\u2019t do much except receive showbiz plaudits. Maybe just recycle them to be garbage collectors.
\n\n\n\nWaste is that which adds no value, is inefficient and unnecessary. Look at Macau; waste is everywhere and ongoing. Macau\u2019s culture of waste is pervasive and all-to-easily tolerated.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | March 2024\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat springs to your mind when you hear the term \u2018waste management\u2019? Solid and liquid waste disposal? Recycling? Save the earth? Waste creation? Waste prevention? Waste treatment? Plastics? Sustainability? Of course, it is all of these, and plenty more. Waste management touches everything, nor is it new; consider Vance Packard\u2019s 1960 prescient publication \u2018The Waste Makers\u2019.\n\n\n\nMacau has a long way to go in waste management, even though the large casino resorts are in the vanguard of practices here. The latest annual figures indicate that, in one year alone, Macau had 2.3 million cubic metres of construction waste, 437,000 tonnes of municipal waste, and 223,000 cubic metres of water treated each day. For decades, many parts of the world have required households to separate their waste into different types, to be collected at different times in a regular schedule: glass, cans, plastics, paper, food, organic matter, furniture, batteries, etc. But not in Macau. Here, even if households separate their waste (which is light years away from being universal or required), what happens then? Oh, easy; they are all mixed up again when the garbage is collected, i.e. a complete waste of time. Not a record to be proud of.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBut wait a moment; that\u2019s only the conventional field of waste, concerning materials of different kinds. Waste management applies much more widely, and Macau is a nice example of this.\n\n\n\nFor example, how about wastage of public money? Think of the over-sized light rail stations, or the cathedral-sized Pac On ferry terminal, or Macau\u2019s immigration and customs building at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge, with its mini-marathon walking distance and carry-a-case escalator obstacle course, or the conspicuous failure to solve the still permanently congested Pearl roundabout at the Avenida da Ponte de Amizade, despite massive roadworks. What glorious waste creations. And how is it that construction projects in Macau go to the lowest bidder rather than to the most suitable bid? What startlingly successful opportunity waste.\n\n\n\nWaste management addresses that which has been discarded as useless, superfluous, and unwanted. Who decides what counts as waste? There are many instances of a much wider needed interpretation of waste in Macau, that reaches beyond material waste. Consider, for example, the waste of human resources in Macau, where those who are qualified in a wide range of fields (often qualified abroad) find that there are no jobs for them in their fields in Macau, because of narrow employment prospects here. This is human creativity and talent waste, just when Macau is extolling the virtues of diversification and talent recruitment. Why is it that, in Macau, qualified pharmacists end up teaching English, trained psychologists end up as office staff, museum and gallery management experts end up as schoolteachers, and, indeed, qualified architects and scientists end up leaving Macau? What a waste.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWaste of human resources includes unemployment (8,600 unemployed people in Macau, latest figure) in which there is discrimination by age, gender, ethnicity, race, and country of origin. Additionally, employee attrition sees workers quitting jobs because of poor working conditions. Macau has them all. What a waste.\n\n\n\nOr consider the superfluity of senior managers in organisations and offices in Macau: organisational waste. Here the \u2018waste\u2019 in \u2018waste management\u2019 is adjectival: managers who are a waste. Why are Macau\u2019s organisations and offices top-heavy in senior managers whose main job, it appears, is to be noticed as they strut and fret their hour at an endless number of inconsequential, unnecessary meetings and public events? What a waste of time and money here: time taken to greet these divine top-rank managers; time for them to parade in front of the \u2018proles\u2019, their names read out for everyone to applaud; time for them to toast the \u2018great unwashed\u2019 who are present in envious awe with their cellphones at the ready to photograph the magnificence; and then time to bow and exit in order to compete in the most-expensive pickup limousine competition. But wait, let us not be hard on these overblown mannequins; they have the good grace to disappear immediately after the photo-taking, leaving the others to rejoice at having seen them, whilst not actually knowing who they were. \n\n\n\nWhy is it that event after event sees these same VIPs present, smiling over their petit fours, wondering how to hold their glass, their single-use paper plate and plastic cutlery, without dropping them when shaking hands. This is senior manager waste: useless and superfluous would-be big fish in a small pond. To coin a cinematic phrase, maybe they should be \u2018wasted\u2019, but maybe this is ungenerous; after all, they are harmless because, in fact, they don\u2019t do much except receive showbiz plaudits. Maybe just recycle them to be garbage collectors.\n\n\n\nWaste is that which adds no value, is inefficient and unnecessary. Look at Macau; waste is everywhere and ongoing. Macau\u2019s culture of waste is pervasive and all-to-easily tolerated.", "date_published": "April 06, 2024", "date_modified": "April 06, 2024 - 13:51", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Waste-management.png", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "What springs to your mind when you hear the term \u2018waste management\u2019? Solid and liquid waste disposal? Recycling? Save the earth? Waste creation? Waste prevention? Waste treatment? Plastics? Sustainability? Of course, it is all of these, and plenty more. Waste management touches everything, nor is it new; consider Vance Packard\u2019s 1960 prescient publication \u2018The Waste Makers\u2019." }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e5%bb%a2%e6%a3%84%e7%89%a9%e5%8f%8a%e7%ae%a1%e7%90%86%e7%8f%be%e7%8b%80/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e5%bb%a2%e6%a3%84%e7%89%a9%e5%8f%8a%e7%ae%a1%e7%90%86%e7%8f%be%e7%8b%80/", "title": "\u3010\u6642\u4e8b\u8a55\u8ad6\u3011\u6fb3\u9580\u5ee2\u68c4\u7269\u53ca\u7ba1\u7406\u73fe\u72c0", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2018/02/04-environment-150x150.jpg\")
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\nMacau Business | February 2024
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nMany and various are the advocates of entrepreneurship in Macau. Indeed, Macau SAR government\u2019s Comiss\u00e3o de Desenvolvimento de Quadros Qualificados \u2018encourages young people in Macau to fulfill their dreams of starting their own business and thereby foster economic diversification and innovation in Macao\u2019, offering \u2018an interest-free business start-up loan programme specially designed for young people\u2019. Very worthy indeed, as financing and access to start-up capital are formidable constraints. To these challenges facing entrepreneurs in Macau are added other familiar matters: market competition and flux; networking; lack of expertise, knowledge, skills, and experience; talent recruitment; timing of scaling up; personal, emotional, interpersonal, mental strain and burnout; team development; work-life balance; risk analysis and evaluation in handling uncertainty; and regulatory and legal hurdles and their adverse effects.
\n\n\n\nThese challenges might well explain Macau\u2019s sluggish increase in newly incorporated companies (see Graph 1) over the last ten years, and the increase in its dissolved companies (see Graph 2). Here, the average annual percentage (rounded) of newly incorporated companies that were dissolved rose from 11 percent in 2013 and 10 per cent in 2014 to 17 percent in 2022 and 18 per cent in the first three quarters of 2023 (latest data available).
\n\n\n\nThere is a need for a paradigmal mentality change to bring more creative views of entrepreneurship in Macau. Witness the lines of closed-down small businesses in street after street in Macau\u2019s city centre (as in other cities across the world). This is not only indicative of mountainous business rental costs but is also a testament to the demise of regarding entrepreneurship as simply running small shops. Yesterday\u2019s entrepreneurs preceded AI and online business; today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s entrepreneurs operate in virtual worlds.
\n\n\n\nBut challenges to entrepreneurship do not stop here. One significant obstruction to entrepreneurship in Macau is the years of learning compliance, passivity, and silence in its schools, in which questioning, critique, imagination, own ideas, and creativity are punishable offences, from kindergarten upwards. This is reinforced in the pipeline through to adulthood in Macau, where regulatory and legal matters in many of Macau\u2019s institutions, government offices, and disproportionate civil service replace entrepreneurship\u2019s appeal to the maxim \u2018everything that is not forbidden is allowed\u2019 by the hobbling mentality of \u2018everything is forbidden unless it is permitted\u2019.
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Take for example, a civil servant in Macau who tells a would-be entrepreneur that they cannot do such-and-such because no mention of permitting it has been included in any law, regulation, bye-law, or company document. In most countries, that omission or silence is an open door to creativity, autonomy, responsibility, freedom, entrepreneurial development, and risk taking. In Macau, the lack of mention is the opposite: a shackling and stifling of entrepreneurship, often emanating from the very people who, in their next breath, are advocating entrepreneurship. How to kill entrepreneurship at a stroke.
\n\n\n\nThe sentence \u2018everything that is not forbidden is allowed\u2019 recognises the \u2018general power of competence\u2019 (legal term) of entrepreneurs, and this is liberatory, open, empowering, innovative, dynamic, and creative. Then look at Macau, where so much is controlling, shut tight, unimaginative, uninventive, risk-averse, and breeds dead-end, static conformity. No wonder so much entrepreneurialism stems from outside Macau.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | February 2024\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMany and various are the advocates of entrepreneurship in Macau. Indeed, Macau SAR government\u2019s Comiss\u00e3o de Desenvolvimento de Quadros Qualificados \u2018encourages young people in Macau to fulfill their dreams of starting their own business and thereby foster economic diversification and innovation in Macao\u2019, offering \u2018an interest-free business start-up loan programme specially designed for young people\u2019. Very worthy indeed, as financing and access to start-up capital are formidable constraints. To these challenges facing entrepreneurs in Macau are added other familiar matters: market competition and flux; networking; lack of expertise, knowledge, skills, and experience; talent recruitment; timing of scaling up; personal, emotional, interpersonal, mental strain and burnout; team development; work-life balance; risk analysis and evaluation in handling uncertainty; and regulatory and legal hurdles and their adverse effects. \n\n\n\nThese challenges might well explain Macau\u2019s sluggish increase in newly incorporated companies (see Graph 1) over the last ten years, and the increase in its dissolved companies (see Graph 2). Here, the average annual percentage (rounded) of newly incorporated companies that were dissolved rose from 11 percent in 2013 and 10 per cent in 2014 to 17 percent in 2022 and 18 per cent in the first three quarters of 2023 (latest data available). \n\n\n\nThere is a need for a paradigmal mentality change to bring more creative views of entrepreneurship in Macau. Witness the lines of closed-down small businesses in street after street in Macau\u2019s city centre (as in other cities across the world). This is not only indicative of mountainous business rental costs but is also a testament to the demise of regarding entrepreneurship as simply running small shops. Yesterday\u2019s entrepreneurs preceded AI and online business; today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s entrepreneurs operate in virtual worlds. \n\n\n\nBut challenges to entrepreneurship do not stop here. One significant obstruction to entrepreneurship in Macau is the years of learning compliance, passivity, and silence in its schools, in which questioning, critique, imagination, own ideas, and creativity are punishable offences, from kindergarten upwards. This is reinforced in the pipeline through to adulthood in Macau, where regulatory and legal matters in many of Macau\u2019s institutions, government offices, and disproportionate civil service replace entrepreneurship\u2019s appeal to the maxim \u2018everything that is not forbidden is allowed\u2019 by the hobbling mentality of \u2018everything is forbidden unless it is permitted\u2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTake for example, a civil servant in Macau who tells a would-be entrepreneur that they cannot do such-and-such because no mention of permitting it has been included in any law, regulation, bye-law, or company document. In most countries, that omission or silence is an open door to creativity, autonomy, responsibility, freedom, entrepreneurial development, and risk taking. In Macau, the lack of mention is the opposite: a shackling and stifling of entrepreneurship, often emanating from the very people who, in their next breath, are advocating entrepreneurship. How to kill entrepreneurship at a stroke. \n\n\n\nThe sentence \u2018everything that is not forbidden is allowed\u2019 recognises the \u2018general power of competence\u2019 (legal term) of entrepreneurs, and this is liberatory, open, empowering, innovative, dynamic, and creative. Then look at Macau, where so much is controlling, shut tight, unimaginative, uninventive, risk-averse, and breeds dead-end, static conformity. No wonder so much entrepreneurialism stems from outside Macau.", "date_published": "February 18, 2024", "date_modified": "February 19, 2024 - 01:25", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CKK_4427.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Many and various are the advocates of entrepreneurship in Macau. 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\nMacau Business | January 2024
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nAs we enter a new year with the signs for Macau\u2019s economy continuing to recover, this should not occlude some long-standing challenges still facing Macau. None of these is new, which makes them more tenacious than might have been imagined in a vibrant city of lights, glitz, tourists, entertainment, fun, food, and casinos.
\n\n\n\nFor example, income inequality in Macau is obstinately persistent, with significant wealth gaps. The table here indicates that, over the last ten years (latest annual data), whilst the nature of employment has changed slightly, with some upskilling observed and low skill employment reducing, there are still nearly 18,900 low-skilled and low-paid workers (7 per cent of the employed residents). Relative percentage increases in income for different groups of employees do not mask the point that, despite the 37 per cent income rise for thousands of unskilled worked, they are still living at a pitifully low, subsistence level, and despite a 40 per cent income rise for service and sales employees, thousands are still unable to afford a decent quality of life.
\n\n\n\nAside from the table data, in 2022 (latest annual figures), some 15,100 of Macau\u2019s employed residents earned 60,000 or more patacas a month (with 6,300 people earning over 80,000 patacas each month), the median income for over one quarter (27.8 per cent) of Macau\u2019s employed residents was only 15,000 patacas or less each month. Rents, mortgages, cost of living, childcare, eating, and clothing continue to render it inconceivable for most young couples to even contemplate purchasing their own home. Little wonder that the birth rate has fallen by 44 per cent from 2013 to 2023. Living in Macau is not cheap. Where and what is the quality of life for the tens of thousands of residents on low incomes, whilst the wealthy few enjoy an entirely different lifestyle? Where are the equal opportunities in Macau for all its residents to afford an acceptable quality of life, affordable housing, healthcare, and a pension that keeps them out of poverty or reliance on others?
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Talking of pensioners and those relying on others for help, it is not only the young adults in Macau who suffer. In the last ten years Macau has seen a 46 per cent rise in its residents aged 65 and more, with numbers rising from 48,700 in 2013 to 89,400 in 2022 (latest annual figures). The elderly dependency ratio in Macau (the percentage of those aged 65 or over who are supported by every 100 adults aged 15-64), rose from 9.9 per cent in 2013 to 18.3 per cent in 2022. A study in early 2023 reported that, in 2021, there were 17 dependent elderly people for every 100 working adults in Macau, and that by 2026 this was estimated to rise to 24 dependent elderly people for every 100 working adults. Where are Macau\u2019s adequate support services to help them and to spare children from supporting grandparents and parents as heavily as is happening?
\n\n\n\nAs we enter a new year, it is urgent that Macau places human values before money, economy, markets, and wealth generation for a few. This requires a rethinking of values, putting concerns and care for people first, not money, personal wealth, status, power, and acquisitive appetitiveness. Macau\u2019s developments and governance must care more for its residents and their quality of life. These cannot simply be bought. They require a rethinking of who benefits from developments in Macau, at whose cost, who is left behind, for what and for whom is Macau\u2019s development, and how to put humanity first. A significant proportion of Macau\u2019s residents are suffering from unequal life chances, low income, rising prices, insufficient opportunity for upward mobility, and poverty. Even if it were only one 1 per cent in this situation, that is thousands of people; 1 per cent is too many. What is your new year\u2019s resolution to address this? What are the wealthy and powerful in Macau doing to be really resolute in addressing this, not just saying it?
\n\n\n\nEmployed residents in Macau: 2013 and 2023
\n\n\n\n| Number of employed persons 2013 | % of employed population | Number of employed persons 2022 | % of employed population | Median earnings 2013 (MOP) | Median earnings 2023 (MOP) | % increase in median earnings | |
| Administrators & Managers | 17,200 | 6.4 | 24,800 | 9.3 | 30,000 | 35,000 | 16.7 |
| Professionals | 12,900 | 4.8 | 18,500 | 6.9 | 30,000 | 40,000 | 33.3 |
| Technicians and associate professionals | 32,699 | 12.2 | 48,600 | 18.1 | 20,000 | 25,900 | 25.0 |
| Clerks | 95,600 | 35.5 | 88,100 | 32.9 | 15,000 | 18,000 | 20.0 |
| Service and sale workers | 52,600 | 19.6 | 40,100 | 15.0 | 10,000 | 14,000 | 40.0 |
| Craftsmen and similar workers | 17,300 | 6.4 | 13,600 | 5.1 | 12,500 | 17,000 | 36.0 |
| Plant and machine operators, drivers and assemblers | 12,900 | 4.8 | 15,500 | 5.8 | 12,000 | 15,000 | 25.0 |
| Unskilled workers | 27,800 | 10.3 | 18,900 | 7.0 | 7,300 | 10,000 | 37.0 |
| Total employed | 268,999 | 268,100 |
Source: DSEC
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | January 2024\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs we enter a new year with the signs for Macau\u2019s economy continuing to recover, this should not occlude some long-standing challenges still facing Macau. None of these is new, which makes them more tenacious than might have been imagined in a vibrant city of lights, glitz, tourists, entertainment, fun, food, and casinos. \n\n\n\nFor example, income inequality in Macau is obstinately persistent, with significant wealth gaps. The table here indicates that, over the last ten years (latest annual data), whilst the nature of employment has changed slightly, with some upskilling observed and low skill employment reducing, there are still nearly 18,900 low-skilled and low-paid workers (7 per cent of the employed residents). Relative percentage increases in income for different groups of employees do not mask the point that, despite the 37 per cent income rise for thousands of unskilled worked, they are still living at a pitifully low, subsistence level, and despite a 40 per cent income rise for service and sales employees, thousands are still unable to afford a decent quality of life.\n\n\n\nAside from the table data, in 2022 (latest annual figures), some 15,100 of Macau\u2019s employed residents earned 60,000 or more patacas a month (with 6,300 people earning over 80,000 patacas each month), the median income for over one quarter (27.8 per cent) of Macau\u2019s employed residents was only 15,000 patacas or less each month. Rents, mortgages, cost of living, childcare, eating, and clothing continue to render it inconceivable for most young couples to even contemplate purchasing their own home. Little wonder that the birth rate has fallen by 44 per cent from 2013 to 2023. Living in Macau is not cheap. Where and what is the quality of life for the tens of thousands of residents on low incomes, whilst the wealthy few enjoy an entirely different lifestyle? Where are the equal opportunities in Macau for all its residents to afford an acceptable quality of life, affordable housing, healthcare, and a pension that keeps them out of poverty or reliance on others?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTalking of pensioners and those relying on others for help, it is not only the young adults in Macau who suffer. In the last ten years Macau has seen a 46 per cent rise in its residents aged 65 and more, with numbers rising from 48,700 in 2013 to 89,400 in 2022 (latest annual figures). The elderly dependency ratio in Macau (the percentage of those aged 65 or over who are supported by every 100 adults aged 15-64), rose from 9.9 per cent in 2013 to 18.3 per cent in 2022. A study in early 2023 reported that, in 2021, there were 17 dependent elderly people for every 100 working adults in Macau, and that by 2026 this was estimated to rise to 24 dependent elderly people for every 100 working adults. Where are Macau\u2019s adequate support services to help them and to spare children from supporting grandparents and parents as heavily as is happening?\n\n\n\nAs we enter a new year, it is urgent that Macau places human values before money, economy, markets, and wealth generation for a few. This requires a rethinking of values, putting concerns and care for people first, not money, personal wealth, status, power, and acquisitive appetitiveness. Macau\u2019s developments and governance must care more for its residents and their quality of life. These cannot simply be bought. They require a rethinking of who benefits from developments in Macau, at whose cost, who is left behind, for what and for whom is Macau\u2019s development, and how to put humanity first. A significant proportion of Macau\u2019s residents are suffering from unequal life chances, low income, rising prices, insufficient opportunity for upward mobility, and poverty. Even if it were only one 1 per cent in this situation, that is thousands of people; 1 per cent is too many. What is your new year\u2019s resolution to address this? What are the wealthy and powerful in Macau doing to be really resolute in addressing this, not just saying it?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmployed residents in Macau: 2013 and 2023\n\n\n\n Number of employed persons 2013 % of employed population Number of employed persons 2022 % of employed population Median earnings 2013 (MOP) Median earnings 2023 (MOP) % increase in median earningsAdministrators & Managers 17,200 6.4 24,800 9.3 30,000 35,000 16.7Professionals 12,900 4.8 18,500 6.9 30,000 40,000 33.3Technicians and associate professionals 32,699 12.2 48,600 18.1 20,000 25,900 25.0Clerks 95,600 35.5 88,100 32.9 15,000 18,000 20.0Service and sale workers 52,600 19.6 40,100 15.0 10,000 14,000 40.0Craftsmen and similar workers 17,300 6.4 13,600 5.1 12,500 17,000 36.0Plant and machine operators, drivers and assemblers 12,900 4.8 15,500 5.8 12,000 15,000 25.0Unskilled workers 27,800 10.3 18,900 7.0 7,300 10,000 37.0Total employed 268,999 268,100 \n\n\n\nSource: DSEC", "date_published": "January 14, 2024", "date_modified": "January 15, 2024 - 00:21", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2020/04/Sucesso-no-primeiro-dia-de-aula-de-%E2%80%9CFormac%CC%A7a%CC%83o-subsidiada%E2%80%9D.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "As we enter a new year with the signs for Macau\u2019s economy continuing to recover, this should not occlude some long-standing challenges still facing Macau. None of these is new, which makes them more tenacious than might have been imagined in a vibrant city of lights, glitz, tourists, entertainment, fun, food, and casinos. " }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-santa-claus-is-not-coming-to-everyone-in-macau/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-santa-claus-is-not-coming-to-everyone-in-macau/", "title": "OPINION \u2013 Santa Claus is not coming to everyone in Macau", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_3270-150x150.jpeg\")
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Macau Business | December 2023
Keith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nIn an eventful year that saw the startling resurrection of Macau\u2019s economy and the return of tourist crowds, the picture could be seen as positive, and, indeed, in some areas this is undeniable. Construction work on unused and reclaimed land has proceeded apace; new, gleaming conference facilities have opened; the unemployment rate of local residents has fallen to its lowest for the last three years; the fiscal reserves are up; Gross Domestic Product has rocketed; the number of doctors and nurses (approaching 5,000) has risen to its highest ever; the hours of internet usage are at record level (over 143,000 hours each month), with over 710,000 subscribers; the number of mobile phones (approaching 1.4 million), with around 730,000 subscribers, is the highest on record. Who could ask for more? Well, I could.
\n\n\n\nConsumerism renders Macau a permanently greedy stomach or a furnace; it consumes. Macau\u2019s consumption of water and electricity is the highest on record; its number of registered vehicles is at an all-time high (over a quarter of a million). Its city-level peristaltic throughput creates monumental waste: in 2022 (latest figures available), municipal waste topped 400,000 tonnes, special and hazardous waste reached nearly 5,000 tonnes, and over 2.3 million cubic metres of construction waste was landfilled.
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The lived experiences of Macau residents continue to tell a problematic story. It remains very difficult to afford housing and is almost impossible for younger adults. Employment still needs massive diversification. Waste management and recycling are still largely in their infancy in much of Macau. Severe environmental pollution of all kinds persists. Poverty remains. Macau continues to be a pan-territory, dirty building site. Concerning rights to abode in this would-be international, multicultural city, the number of new individuals granted rights of abode has declined in the last decade (see the graph) and is tiny (132 in the third quarter of 2023), with problems of residency fracturing international relations.
\n\n\n\nHowever, as a Christmas treat, read this statement on Macau, generated by ChatGPT (which was the flavour of the month earlier this year): \u2018With its vibrant tourism and entertainment industry, Macao attracts millions of visitors from around the world\u2019. Whilst its tourism might be vibrant, Macau\u2019s residents cope with crowds on every street, ear-splitting noise in restaurants and public places, and a plethora of no-go honeypot locations.
\n\n\n\nThe great ChatGPT statement continues: \u2018Macao\u2019s strategic location within the Greater Bay Area positions it as a vital transportation and logistics hub. Its well-established transportation infrastructure ? facilitates the smooth flow of goods, services, and people throughout the region. Macao\u2019s role as a transportation hub enhances regional connectivity and strengthens its own economic competitiveness\u2019. Tell this to the daily commuters crammed onto a bus, squashed like Macau\u2019s famed, resplendent tinned sardines, and to car drivers caught in monstrous congestion and multi-kilometre lines of traffic jams, trying vainly to negotiate nose-to-tail fleets of tourist coaches and buses on its bridges. Tell this to lorry drivers with the \u2018veiculo longo\u2019 sign on their wagons, trying to negotiate Macau\u2019s Lego-size roads, chicane-like road works everywhere, and frustratingly tight bends. The number of traffic accidents in Macau averages over 1,000 per month and the number of victims averages over 380 per month (including over 36 pedestrian victims). On transportation, for Port Laden Container Throughput and the Laden Container Flow for the last ten years, the trendlines are completely flat, i.e. no change.
\n\n\n\nChatGPT has done a neat promotion job here, illustrating its Artificial Non-intelligence, selectivity, and lack of balanced judgement. ChatGPT\u2019s much-vaunted, enthusiastic attraction is the triumph of the optimism of ignorance. Where is Macau\u2019s positive, inward investment for its residents, families, international members, and non-local workers? When is Santa Claus going to put these right?
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | December 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn an eventful year that saw the startling resurrection of Macau\u2019s economy and the return of tourist crowds, the picture could be seen as positive, and, indeed, in some areas this is undeniable. Construction work on unused and reclaimed land has proceeded apace; new, gleaming conference facilities have opened; the unemployment rate of local residents has fallen to its lowest for the last three years; the fiscal reserves are up; Gross Domestic Product has rocketed; the number of doctors and nurses (approaching 5,000) has risen to its highest ever; the hours of internet usage are at record level (over 143,000 hours each month), with over 710,000 subscribers; the number of mobile phones (approaching 1.4 million), with around 730,000 subscribers, is the highest on record. Who could ask for more? Well, I could. \n\n\n\nConsumerism renders Macau a permanently greedy stomach or a furnace; it consumes. Macau\u2019s consumption of water and electricity is the highest on record; its number of registered vehicles is at an all-time high (over a quarter of a million). Its city-level peristaltic throughput creates monumental waste: in 2022 (latest figures available), municipal waste topped 400,000 tonnes, special and hazardous waste reached nearly 5,000 tonnes, and over 2.3 million cubic metres of construction waste was landfilled. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe lived experiences of Macau residents continue to tell a problematic story. It remains very difficult to afford housing and is almost impossible for younger adults. Employment still needs massive diversification. Waste management and recycling are still largely in their infancy in much of Macau. Severe environmental pollution of all kinds persists. Poverty remains. Macau continues to be a pan-territory, dirty building site. Concerning rights to abode in this would-be international, multicultural city, the number of new individuals granted rights of abode has declined in the last decade (see the graph) and is tiny (132 in the third quarter of 2023), with problems of residency fracturing international relations.\n\n\n\nHowever, as a Christmas treat, read this statement on Macau, generated by ChatGPT (which was the flavour of the month earlier this year): \u2018With its vibrant tourism and entertainment industry, Macao attracts millions of visitors from around the world\u2019. Whilst its tourism might be vibrant, Macau\u2019s residents cope with crowds on every street, ear-splitting noise in restaurants and public places, and a plethora of no-go honeypot locations.\n\n\n\nThe great ChatGPT statement continues: \u2018Macao\u2019s strategic location within the Greater Bay Area positions it as a vital transportation and logistics hub. Its well-established transportation infrastructure ? facilitates the smooth flow of goods, services, and people throughout the region. Macao\u2019s role as a transportation hub enhances regional connectivity and strengthens its own economic competitiveness\u2019. Tell this to the daily commuters crammed onto a bus, squashed like Macau\u2019s famed, resplendent tinned sardines, and to car drivers caught in monstrous congestion and multi-kilometre lines of traffic jams, trying vainly to negotiate nose-to-tail fleets of tourist coaches and buses on its bridges. Tell this to lorry drivers with the \u2018veiculo longo\u2019 sign on their wagons, trying to negotiate Macau\u2019s Lego-size roads, chicane-like road works everywhere, and frustratingly tight bends. The number of traffic accidents in Macau averages over 1,000 per month and the number of victims averages over 380 per month (including over 36 pedestrian victims). On transportation, for Port Laden Container Throughput and the Laden Container Flow for the last ten years, the trendlines are completely flat, i.e. no change.\n\n\n\nChatGPT has done a neat promotion job here, illustrating its Artificial Non-intelligence, selectivity, and lack of balanced judgement. ChatGPT\u2019s much-vaunted, enthusiastic attraction is the triumph of the optimism of ignorance. Where is Macau\u2019s positive, inward investment for its residents, families, international members, and non-local workers? When is Santa Claus going to put these right?", "date_published": "December 23, 2023", "date_modified": "December 23, 2023 - 12:13", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_3270.jpeg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Macau Business | December 2023\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist" }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e4%b8%a6%e9%9d%9e%e6%89%80%e6%9c%89%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e4%ba%ba%e9%83%bd%e5%8f%97%e5%88%b0%e8%81%96%e8%aa%95%e8%80%81%e4%ba%ba%e7%9c%b7%e9%a1%a7/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e4%b8%a6%e9%9d%9e%e6%89%80%e6%9c%89%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e4%ba%ba%e9%83%bd%e5%8f%97%e5%88%b0%e8%81%96%e8%aa%95%e8%80%81%e4%ba%ba%e7%9c%b7%e9%a1%a7/", "title": "\u3010\u6642\u4e8b\u8a55\u8ad6\u3011\u4e26\u975e\u6240\u6709\u6fb3\u9580\u4eba\u90fd\u53d7\u5230\u8056\u8a95\u8001\u4eba\u7737\u9867", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/p23gogadro-150x150.jpeg\")
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\nMacau Business | November 2023
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nMacau wisely looks to mainland China, South-East Asia, and Portuguese-speaking countries, as part of its economic diversification. However, to be a player on the international stage and world-wide market, it must look wider, and, hence, the standard of English in Macau must improve dramatically and urgently. There is nothing new here; it has been said for decades, but, with a few exceptions, the persistent problem of hopeless English in Macau obstructs Macau\u2019s international development. Ask university teachers in Macau about the standard of many Macau students\u2019 English; the honest ones will tell you that it is awful and is worsening. Many Macau students cannot write and speak a single sentence or even a single phrase in correct English upon entry to tertiary institutions.
\n\n\n\nMacau can ill afford to ignore the need for fluent English. This is not linguistic imperialism; rather, it is the promotion of necessary linguistic capital, i.e. proficiency in a high-status, world-wide language that is used by groups with economic, social, cultural, and political power in local and global societies. Put simply, linguistic capital can promote economic capital. Fluency in English offers students access to better life chances, with powerful and long-lasting effects on careers, and it offers benefits to Macau\u2019s economy and, thereby, its society: micro and macro benefit. Insisting on high quality English in Macau is neither special pleading nor ideology; it is a commonplace platitude in pragmatic Macau. \u2018Nothing new there\u2019, you say, so why does English continue to be so poor in Macau?
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2018/05/EnglishMedia-DSC00639-686x1028.jpg\")
Macau owes it to its students to insist on high standards of English. Schools and tertiary education institutions in Macau have a moral duty to ensure that their students can work with English at an international standard. Yet what do we see: supposedly English medium universities and English medium strands in Macau schools teach in Chinese when they say that they teach in English, and English teachers in Macau\u2019s schools use ineffective teaching strategies. Further, secondary schools in Macau pass and graduate their Form 6 students, thereby giving them university entrance, a compulsory component of which is proficiency in English, yet the students\u2019 English is pathetic, virtually non-existent.
\n\n\n\nIf students\u2019 English is awful, despite 15 years of English at school, then their English performance must be failed. However unpleasant, this is a moral responsibility that Macau schools should uphold, but many do not; why not? Why such recalcitrance to act honestly? Forget about Macau\u2019s Joint Admission Examination in English for four of Macau\u2019s tertiary education institutions; almost no notice seems to be taken of its results, even though Macau schools spend months drilling their students for it. Macau\u2019s schools and tertiary institutions must not continue their quiet, collusive neglect of this major element of internationalisation, diversification, globalisation, and economic development. They must be honest: if students do not meet a decent standard, then they fail. Macau\u2019s schools must stop graduating students who are incompetent in English, e.g. raising marks so that students pass, when English is a requirement for graduation. That is dishonest and immoral.
\n\n\n\nFor Macau to flourish, it needs a rich multiglossia. This means that students must reach external, international English standards, not the low, internally set standards that so many of its schools far too readily credentialise. For decades we have had study after study of students\u2019 poor motivation to learn English in Macau, their lack of exposure to English outside school, archaic teaching strategies in school, and the irrelevance of English in many walks of life in Macau. These are insufficient excuses. External, international standards of English are absent in many Macau schools, and they get away with low standards. Why not compel Macau\u2019s secondary schools to have English examinations that are set and marked by external, internationally accredited examination boards, with internationally prescribed curricula, which only a handful of schools in Macau currently do? Importantly, why not ensure high stakes consequences of failure in English performance at school?
\n\n\n\nNone of this is new. It is history, yesterday\u2019s news, an endless restatement of the blindingly obvious, but the problem remains. English does not threaten Macau\u2019s official languages, nor diminish Putonghua, nor threaten Chinese culture and language. Why is so little happening?
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | November 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMacau wisely looks to mainland China, South-East Asia, and Portuguese-speaking countries, as part of its economic diversification. However, to be a player on the international stage and world-wide market, it must look wider, and, hence, the standard of English in Macau must improve dramatically and urgently. There is nothing new here; it has been said for decades, but, with a few exceptions, the persistent problem of hopeless English in Macau obstructs Macau\u2019s international development. Ask university teachers in Macau about the standard of many Macau students\u2019 English; the honest ones will tell you that it is awful and is worsening. Many Macau students cannot write and speak a single sentence or even a single phrase in correct English upon entry to tertiary institutions.\n\n\n\nMacau can ill afford to ignore the need for fluent English. This is not linguistic imperialism; rather, it is the promotion of necessary linguistic capital, i.e. proficiency in a high-status, world-wide language that is used by groups with economic, social, cultural, and political power in local and global societies. Put simply, linguistic capital can promote economic capital. Fluency in English offers students access to better life chances, with powerful and long-lasting effects on careers, and it offers benefits to Macau\u2019s economy and, thereby, its society: micro and macro benefit. Insisting on high quality English in Macau is neither special pleading nor ideology; it is a commonplace platitude in pragmatic Macau. \u2018Nothing new there\u2019, you say, so why does English continue to be so poor in Macau?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMacau owes it to its students to insist on high standards of English. Schools and tertiary education institutions in Macau have a moral duty to ensure that their students can work with English at an international standard. Yet what do we see: supposedly English medium universities and English medium strands in Macau schools teach in Chinese when they say that they teach in English, and English teachers in Macau\u2019s schools use ineffective teaching strategies. Further, secondary schools in Macau pass and graduate their Form 6 students, thereby giving them university entrance, a compulsory component of which is proficiency in English, yet the students\u2019 English is pathetic, virtually non-existent. \n\n\n\nIf students\u2019 English is awful, despite 15 years of English at school, then their English performance must be failed. However unpleasant, this is a moral responsibility that Macau schools should uphold, but many do not; why not? Why such recalcitrance to act honestly? Forget about Macau\u2019s Joint Admission Examination in English for four of Macau\u2019s tertiary education institutions; almost no notice seems to be taken of its results, even though Macau schools spend months drilling their students for it. Macau\u2019s schools and tertiary institutions must not continue their quiet, collusive neglect of this major element of internationalisation, diversification, globalisation, and economic development. They must be honest: if students do not meet a decent standard, then they fail. Macau\u2019s schools must stop graduating students who are incompetent in English, e.g. raising marks so that students pass, when English is a requirement for graduation. That is dishonest and immoral.\n\n\n\nFor Macau to flourish, it needs a rich multiglossia. This means that students must reach external, international English standards, not the low, internally set standards that so many of its schools far too readily credentialise. For decades we have had study after study of students\u2019 poor motivation to learn English in Macau, their lack of exposure to English outside school, archaic teaching strategies in school, and the irrelevance of English in many walks of life in Macau. These are insufficient excuses. External, international standards of English are absent in many Macau schools, and they get away with low standards. Why not compel Macau\u2019s secondary schools to have English examinations that are set and marked by external, internationally accredited examination boards, with internationally prescribed curricula, which only a handful of schools in Macau currently do? Importantly, why not ensure high stakes consequences of failure in English performance at school? \n\n\n\nNone of this is new. It is history, yesterday\u2019s news, an endless restatement of the blindingly obvious, but the problem remains. English does not threaten Macau\u2019s official languages, nor diminish Putonghua, nor threaten Chinese culture and language. Why is so little happening?", "date_published": "November 25, 2023", "date_modified": "November 23, 2023 - 15:17", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2016/11/english.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Macau wisely looks to mainland China, South-East Asia, and Portuguese-speaking countries, as part of its economic diversification. However, to be a player on the international stage and world-wide market, it must look wider, and, hence, the standard of English in Macau must improve dramatically and urgently." }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e7%9a%84%e8%aa%9e%e8%a8%80%e5%92%8c%e7%b6%93%e6%bf%9f%e8%b3%87%e6%9c%ac/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e7%9a%84%e8%aa%9e%e8%a8%80%e5%92%8c%e7%b6%93%e6%bf%9f%e8%b3%87%e6%9c%ac/", "title": "\u3010\u6642\u4e8b\u8a55\u8ad6\u3011\u6fb3\u9580\u7684\u8a9e\u8a00\u548c\u7d93\u6fdf\u8cc7\u672c", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2017/03/books-150x150.jpg\")
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\n\u6587\uff1aKeith Morrison | \u4f5c\u5bb6\u53ca\u6559\u80b2\u5bb6
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\nMacau Business | October 2023
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nOnce upon a time there was a cockerel who succumbed to flattery when a wily fox told him that he had the most magnificent singing voice, especially when he sang with his eyes closed tightly. The cockerel closed its eyes, flapped its wings, and sang like a superstar, whereupon the fox grabbed him and ran off with him. Pride blinds people to the real situation. This Chaucerian tale is an allegory of Macau; Macau flatters itself, is perennially blind to its limitations, delights in closing its eyes to reality, and repeatedly has more talk than substance.
\n\n\n\nTake, for example, Macau pinning its economic hopes and aspirations on its \u2018one plus four\u2019 strategy for economic diversification. It has spread its wings of fancy beyond international tourism, to imagining that its prospective (1) health services, (2) financial services, (3) technology, and (4) large-scale events can become centres of international quality and attraction in Macau, and all within a five-year initial time scale. What stunning hubris this is, and what blindness accompanies it (look at Macau\u2019s light rail system: doomed to succeed; to date an expensive flop). Close your eyes, flap your wings, sing with pride, flatter yourself, and be blind to reality; that\u2019s Macau, a funny little place with delusions of being able to punch above its weight.
\n\n\n\nFor each of the \u2018plus four\u2019 development areas, imagine the following responses.
\n\n\n\nIf you want the best, highest quality health services, where do you go? Singapore, London, Boston, Hawaii, Bangkok? Answer: no; I love Macau. Very odd.
\n\n\n\nIf you want the best financial services, where do you go? London, New York, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore? No; I love grubby little Macau, with its reputation for creative money laundering.
\n\n\n\nIf you want the best technology, where do you go? Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Tokyo, London, New York? No; it\u2019s Macau for me!
\n\n\n\nIf you want the best, large-scale, cultural, sporting, and conference events, where do you go? London, Paris, New York, Singapore, Barcelona, Dubai? No, no; get it right: everyone knows that it\u2019s Macau. Not.
\n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s ambitions simply do not ring true. Macau does not have the necessary expertise, experience, skills, foundations, platforms, quality, and reputation to be able to convince punters to put their money into the \u2018plus four\u2019 development areas. Such diversification is an image of air, a wonderland dream, a fiction, even a joke.
\n\n\n\nLook at how the necessary international experts with international skill sets struggle to cope with Macau\u2019s opaque immigration and labour practices. Where are Macau\u2019s own high-quality local, experienced, knowledgeable, skilled experts? Where are the necessary international-level economics and business training institutions and students in Macau? How far is Macau\u2019s legal framework prepared, suitable, and sufficiently extensive, for handling innovation? Where are the necessary trust, security, reliability and transparency in Macau? Where are the necessary institutional, tangible and intangible structural and infrastructural networks for the \u2018plus four\u2019 developments? Where is Macau\u2019s readiness for embarking on this journey and taking risks? Where are the safety nets, financial security, foundations, and reforms needed to enable such developments to be more than castles built on sand? What cost/benefit and risk analysis, evaluation, safeguarding, and protections have been identified and addressed? Where is the evidence of all these made available for everyone to see?
\n\n\n\nWhat could possibly attract investors, developers, or punters to put their money into a territory that is hidebound by restrictive practices, Kafkaesque regulations and procedures, somewhat feudal governance, a monumental lack of transparency that reaches deeps into its heart, uncertain freedoms, labyrinthine bureaucracy, insufficient protections, and with neighbours and family members looking over Macau\u2019s shoulders to control it? Where are the money, transparency, attractions, knowledge, ability, and facilitation coming from, for Macau to be the next Dubai, Singapore, London, or New York? Dream on.
\n\n\n\nIcarus thought that he could fly into the sun and get away with it. His fall from the sky is an allegory of pride, delusion, and the naivety of immature youth, and of the dangers of believing that you can do things that you cannot do and that don\u2019t work. Look at economically young and immature Macau: ten out of ten for dreams, pride, arrogance, immodesty, and high-sounding, empty, fallacious, deceptively enticing words. Ten out of ten for optimism, hope, the absence of convincing evidence, and blindness to real, red-in-tooth-and-claw competition from established, experienced and worldy-wise international providers. Nought out of ten for realism.
\n\n\n\nIn the wake of hubris comes nemesis; witness Icarus. Cock-a-doodle-doo.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | October 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOnce upon a time there was a cockerel who succumbed to flattery when a wily fox told him that he had the most magnificent singing voice, especially when he sang with his eyes closed tightly. The cockerel closed its eyes, flapped its wings, and sang like a superstar, whereupon the fox grabbed him and ran off with him. Pride blinds people to the real situation. This Chaucerian tale is an allegory of Macau; Macau flatters itself, is perennially blind to its limitations, delights in closing its eyes to reality, and repeatedly has more talk than substance.\n\n\n\nTake, for example, Macau pinning its economic hopes and aspirations on its \u2018one plus four\u2019 strategy for economic diversification. It has spread its wings of fancy beyond international tourism, to imagining that its prospective (1) health services, (2) financial services, (3) technology, and (4) large-scale events can become centres of international quality and attraction in Macau, and all within a five-year initial time scale. What stunning hubris this is, and what blindness accompanies it (look at Macau\u2019s light rail system: doomed to succeed; to date an expensive flop). Close your eyes, flap your wings, sing with pride, flatter yourself, and be blind to reality; that\u2019s Macau, a funny little place with delusions of being able to punch above its weight.\n\n\n\nFor each of the \u2018plus four\u2019 development areas, imagine the following responses.\n\n\n\nIf you want the best, highest quality health services, where do you go? Singapore, London, Boston, Hawaii, Bangkok? Answer: no; I love Macau. Very odd.\n\n\n\nIf you want the best financial services, where do you go? London, New York, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore? No; I love grubby little Macau, with its reputation for creative money laundering.\n\n\n\nIf you want the best technology, where do you go? Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Tokyo, London, New York? No; it\u2019s Macau for me!\n\n\n\nIf you want the best, large-scale, cultural, sporting, and conference events, where do you go? London, Paris, New York, Singapore, Barcelona, Dubai? No, no; get it right: everyone knows that it\u2019s Macau. Not.\n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s ambitions simply do not ring true. Macau does not have the necessary expertise, experience, skills, foundations, platforms, quality, and reputation to be able to convince punters to put their money into the \u2018plus four\u2019 development areas. Such diversification is an image of air, a wonderland dream, a fiction, even a joke. \n\n\n\nLook at how the necessary international experts with international skill sets struggle to cope with Macau\u2019s opaque immigration and labour practices. Where are Macau\u2019s own high-quality local, experienced, knowledgeable, skilled experts? Where are the necessary international-level economics and business training institutions and students in Macau? How far is Macau\u2019s legal framework prepared, suitable, and sufficiently extensive, for handling innovation? Where are the necessary trust, security, reliability and transparency in Macau? Where are the necessary institutional, tangible and intangible structural and infrastructural networks for the \u2018plus four\u2019 developments? Where is Macau\u2019s readiness for embarking on this journey and taking risks? Where are the safety nets, financial security, foundations, and reforms needed to enable such developments to be more than castles built on sand? What cost/benefit and risk analysis, evaluation, safeguarding, and protections have been identified and addressed? Where is the evidence of all these made available for everyone to see?\n\n\n\nWhat could possibly attract investors, developers, or punters to put their money into a territory that is hidebound by restrictive practices, Kafkaesque regulations and procedures, somewhat feudal governance, a monumental lack of transparency that reaches deeps into its heart, uncertain freedoms, labyrinthine bureaucracy, insufficient protections, and with neighbours and family members looking over Macau\u2019s shoulders to control it? Where are the money, transparency, attractions, knowledge, ability, and facilitation coming from, for Macau to be the next Dubai, Singapore, London, or New York? Dream on.\n\n\n\nIcarus thought that he could fly into the sun and get away with it. His fall from the sky is an allegory of pride, delusion, and the naivety of immature youth, and of the dangers of believing that you can do things that you cannot do and that don\u2019t work. Look at economically young and immature Macau: ten out of ten for dreams, pride, arrogance, immodesty, and high-sounding, empty, fallacious, deceptively enticing words. Ten out of ten for optimism, hope, the absence of convincing evidence, and blindness to real, red-in-tooth-and-claw competition from established, experienced and worldy-wise international providers. Nought out of ten for realism.\n\n\n\nIn the wake of hubris comes nemesis; witness Icarus. Cock-a-doodle-doo.", "date_published": "October 15, 2023", "date_modified": "October 15, 2023 - 15:45", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WeChat-Image_20230613141313.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Once upon a time there was a cockerel who succumbed to flattery when a wily fox told him that he had the most magnificent singing voice, especially when he sang with his eyes closed tightly." }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-conditional-internationalism-in-macau1/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-conditional-internationalism-in-macau1/", "title": "OPINION \u2013 Conditional internationalism in Macau", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/visitors-Macau-150x150.jpg\")
\nMacau Business | September 2023
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nOne of the routine mantras that one hears every day in Macau is its international make-up and societal fabric, which reaches back centuries. Walk down the city streets of Macau and you will see people from many nations, be they tourists or non-resident workers.
\n\n\n\nHowever, Macau is not as international as it professes to be, and in many senses. In terms of population, the 2021 census of Macau showed that, setting aside residents who were born in mainland China and the Greater China region, Macau had only 76,000 (rounded) residents from outside Macau, and only 11 per cent of its population were non-Chinese, compared to some international countries, for example, in 2020: the USA (50 per cent), Germany and the UK (16 per cent each).
\n\n\n\nIn terms of visiting Macau, it is relatively easy to be international in Macau if you are a tourist, as they are the lifeblood of its economy. However, travel to and from Macau for some international tourists is a pain, as the number of direct flights from outside East Asia is miniscule. Perhaps it is hardly surprising that, for inter-continental tourists, Macau is still unattractive. Data on international tourists reveal a 43 per cent per drop in international tourists since the end of 2018 to the present, and if we remove the number of visitors from mainland China and the Greater China region, there is an 84 per cent drop in international tourists.
\n\n\n\nHow easy is it to be an international employee in Macau? For many it is very far from easy. The number of non-resident workers in Macau dropped from the highest point in the first quarter of 2020 (171,000, rounded) to the first quarter of 2023 (148,000, rounded). But this masks big differences: Philippines (down 16 per cent), Vietnam (down 51 per cent), Hong Kong (down 43 per cent), India (down 20 per cent), Indonesia (down 49 per cent), Malaysia (down 63 per cent). The pandemic saw off thousands of international, non-resident workers at the drop of a hat, only to require many of them to come back when the economy picked up, i.e. a disposable commodity until needed: Marx\u2019s reserve army of employees, particularly for lower-skilled jobs. Portuguese workers and their families left Macau, intending never to return. Why else is this, apart from the pandemic and its effects on the downturn in Macau\u2019s economy?
\n\n\n\nOne explanation is this: the social philosopher Axel Honneth critiqued societies for their failure to recognise and respect subaltern, marginalised, and disempowered groups, i.e. for the failure to accord social justice and legitimate rights, dignity, identity, civil rights, status, decent work, and esteem to small, disempowered groups in society who are unable to gain access and opportunity to lead a fulfilling life. This applies to many international, low-skilled, non-resident workers in Macau. Do recognition and respect really happen for Macau\u2019s non-resident workers? Look at Macau\u2019s immigration and labour departments and ask how well they meet this standard. Many of Macau\u2019s non-resident workers are treated as third-class labourers, particularly if they are regarded as low-skilled.
\n\n\n\nRecognition, for Honneth, is at the centre of moral and ethical life, treating people humanely and respectfully, rather than instrumentally, as objects and commodities. Humanitarianism is a defining feature of a truly international society. How strong is this in would-be international Macau? Who are the first to go when times are hard for the economy? Even after the re-opening of Macau to foreign visitors and workers, job security for non-resident workers remains extremely frail, yet Macau relies on them.
\n\n\n\nMacau is very happy to welcome tourists from across the world, but it has few adequate protections and respect for its non-resident workers; there is misrecognition of their worth as employees. As the pandemic revealed, to be an international worker in Macau is to be fragile, expendable, a perishable good. How international is that? Sadly, a condition for being an international non-resident worker in Macau is to be silent, compliant, accepting, obedient, and easily dismissible.
\n\n\n\nJust when diversification is the name of the game in Macau, and with the manifold benefits of diversity that internationals can bring, how sensible is it to treat its international non-resident workers so poorly, and with lamentable transparency and accountability? How much do Macau employers care about their non-resident workers? Just how international is Macau, really? No wonder the Macau government, less caring about its international workers, has to try endlessly to entice local talent to return from abroad to Macau.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | September 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of the routine mantras that one hears every day in Macau is its international make-up and societal fabric, which reaches back centuries. Walk down the city streets of Macau and you will see people from many nations, be they tourists or non-resident workers. \n\n\n\nHowever, Macau is not as international as it professes to be, and in many senses. In terms of population, the 2021 census of Macau showed that, setting aside residents who were born in mainland China and the Greater China region, Macau had only 76,000 (rounded) residents from outside Macau, and only 11 per cent of its population were non-Chinese, compared to some international countries, for example, in 2020: the USA (50 per cent), Germany and the UK (16 per cent each). \n\n\n\nIn terms of visiting Macau, it is relatively easy to be international in Macau if you are a tourist, as they are the lifeblood of its economy. However, travel to and from Macau for some international tourists is a pain, as the number of direct flights from outside East Asia is miniscule. Perhaps it is hardly surprising that, for inter-continental tourists, Macau is still unattractive. Data on international tourists reveal a 43 per cent per drop in international tourists since the end of 2018 to the present, and if we remove the number of visitors from mainland China and the Greater China region, there is an 84 per cent drop in international tourists. \n\n\n\nHow easy is it to be an international employee in Macau? For many it is very far from easy. The number of non-resident workers in Macau dropped from the highest point in the first quarter of 2020 (171,000, rounded) to the first quarter of 2023 (148,000, rounded). But this masks big differences: Philippines (down 16 per cent), Vietnam (down 51 per cent), Hong Kong (down 43 per cent), India (down 20 per cent), Indonesia (down 49 per cent), Malaysia (down 63 per cent). The pandemic saw off thousands of international, non-resident workers at the drop of a hat, only to require many of them to come back when the economy picked up, i.e. a disposable commodity until needed: Marx\u2019s reserve army of employees, particularly for lower-skilled jobs. Portuguese workers and their families left Macau, intending never to return. Why else is this, apart from the pandemic and its effects on the downturn in Macau\u2019s economy?\n\n\n\nOne explanation is this: the social philosopher Axel Honneth critiqued societies for their failure to recognise and respect subaltern, marginalised, and disempowered groups, i.e. for the failure to accord social justice and legitimate rights, dignity, identity, civil rights, status, decent work, and esteem to small, disempowered groups in society who are unable to gain access and opportunity to lead a fulfilling life. This applies to many international, low-skilled, non-resident workers in Macau. Do recognition and respect really happen for Macau\u2019s non-resident workers? Look at Macau\u2019s immigration and labour departments and ask how well they meet this standard. Many of Macau\u2019s non-resident workers are treated as third-class labourers, particularly if they are regarded as low-skilled.\n\n\n\nRecognition, for Honneth, is at the centre of moral and ethical life, treating people humanely and respectfully, rather than instrumentally, as objects and commodities. Humanitarianism is a defining feature of a truly international society. How strong is this in would-be international Macau? Who are the first to go when times are hard for the economy? Even after the re-opening of Macau to foreign visitors and workers, job security for non-resident workers remains extremely frail, yet Macau relies on them.\n\n\n\nMacau is very happy to welcome tourists from across the world, but it has few adequate protections and respect for its non-resident workers; there is misrecognition of their worth as employees. As the pandemic revealed, to be an international worker in Macau is to be fragile, expendable, a perishable good. How international is that? Sadly, a condition for being an international non-resident worker in Macau is to be silent, compliant, accepting, obedient, and easily dismissible. \n\n\n\nJust when diversification is the name of the game in Macau, and with the manifold benefits of diversity that internationals can bring, how sensible is it to treat its international non-resident workers so poorly, and with lamentable transparency and accountability? How much do Macau employers care about their non-resident workers? Just how international is Macau, really? No wonder the Macau government, less caring about its international workers, has to try endlessly to entice local talent to return from abroad to Macau.", "date_published": "September 17, 2023", "date_modified": "September 18, 2023 - 00:47", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/visitors-Macau.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Just when diversification is the name of the game in Macau, and with the manifold benefits of diversity that internationals can bring, how sensible is it to treat its international non-resident workers so poorly, and with lamentable transparency and accountability?" }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e6%9c%89%e6%a2%9d%e4%bb%b6%e7%9a%84%e5%9c%8b%e9%9a%9b%e4%b8%bb%e7%be%a9/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e6%9c%89%e6%a2%9d%e4%bb%b6%e7%9a%84%e5%9c%8b%e9%9a%9b%e4%b8%bb%e7%be%a9/", "title": "\u3010\u6642\u4e8b\u8a55\u8ad6\u3011\u6fb3\u9580\u6709\u689d\u4ef6\u7684\u570b\u969b\u4e3b\u7fa9", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CKK_6168-150x150.jpg\")
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\nMacau Business | August 2023
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nHere we are, back in full-throttle summer tourism in tiny Macau, with visitors galore, lines of tourist coaches everywhere, and the casinos back on course to welcome gamblers. However, gambling reaches much wider than Macau\u2019s casinos.
\n\n\n\nGames of chance feature strongly on Macau\u2019s roads. Macau\u2019s drivers face many perils in negotiating safe passage on its 445 kilometres of lanes of public roads. Threats to road safety lurk everywhere, from jaywalkers to taxis bent on breaking every road courtesy imaginable, to motorcylists, particularly of the food delivery variety, imagining themselves to be taking part in world championship grand prix races, jockeying for position and apparently exempting themselves from any traffic laws. Add to these the game of chance in knowing whether the road that you normally take will suddenly be closed or diverted, and the scene is set for driver frustration and anger, risk taking, and traffic accidents.
\n\n\n\nWhilst the number of registered vehicles in Macau has risen in the last five years, from 239,000 to 250,000 (rounded) (i.e. around 560 vehicles for each lane kilometre of road in early 2023), the number of traffic accidents in Macau has not risen proportionately. Indeed, the graph shows a falling trendline. For lovers of statistics, a simple regression of the number of vehicles in Macau on the number of its traffic accidents indicates that the number of registered vehicles bears very little explanatory relationship (-26.6 per cent) to the number of road accidents. How, then, can the falling trendline in accidents be explained?
\n\n\n\nIs it because Macau\u2019s drivers simply resign themselves to having to tolerate the open hostility of other drivers in Macau, particularly the taxi drivers, motorcycle delivery riders, owners of expensive cars who think that they can do whatever they wish because they are so pathetically rich and big? Yes.
\n\n\n\nIs it because of the tolerant nature of many of Macau\u2019s citizens (that is, excluding the speed maniacs who think that it is fair game to put others\u2019 lives at risk by weaving in and out of traffic at top speed, for the sake of gaining a few seconds of time)? Yes.
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/macau-traffic-jam.jpg\")
Is because drivers simply stop to pick up or drop off people or things, particularly in Macau\u2019s many narrow streets, so there is nothing to do but wait until those drivers graciously, or often uncaringly, decide to move on? Yes.
\n\n\n\nIs it perhaps because Macau drivers are getting better at driving safely? No; it is the endless, disproportionate rows of barriers that separate lanes of Macau\u2019s roads in order to cope with, and reduce accidents caused by, drivers who constantly disobey lane discipline and courtesy.
\n\n\n\nIs it because the traffic congestion everywhere reduces speed, particularly when traffic diversions suddenly spring up for endless road works in meeting Macau\u2019s obsessive-compulsive disorder and major sport of digging repeatedly? Yes.
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Picture2.png\")
Source: DSEC
\n\n\n\nIs it because Macau\u2019s poor-quality road surface is full of gaping holes that appear after a couple of hours of rain, bringing lane closures? Yes.
\n\n\n\nIs it because attempts to reduce traffic congestion have not really worked, even with a myriad of traffic lights, surveillance cameras, on-duty police, changed road layouts, new stretches of road and bypasses, speed reduction bumps (\u2018sleeping policemen\u2019) everywhere on the roads? Yes.
\n\n\n\nThere are many possible reasons, but only a few are positive. So, drivers beware; the silly season of summer brings the increased charms of games of chance on Macau\u2019s roads. If only, as in cities elsewhere, real provision was made for cyclists. But that is light years away in Macau. Motor vehicles reign supreme in Macau.
\n\n\n\n\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | August 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHere we are, back in full-throttle summer tourism in tiny Macau, with visitors galore, lines of tourist coaches everywhere, and the casinos back on course to welcome gamblers. However, gambling reaches much wider than Macau\u2019s casinos.\n\n\n\nGames of chance feature strongly on Macau\u2019s roads. Macau\u2019s drivers face many perils in negotiating safe passage on its 445 kilometres of lanes of public roads. Threats to road safety lurk everywhere, from jaywalkers to taxis bent on breaking every road courtesy imaginable, to motorcylists, particularly of the food delivery variety, imagining themselves to be taking part in world championship grand prix races, jockeying for position and apparently exempting themselves from any traffic laws. Add to these the game of chance in knowing whether the road that you normally take will suddenly be closed or diverted, and the scene is set for driver frustration and anger, risk taking, and traffic accidents.\n\n\n\nWhilst the number of registered vehicles in Macau has risen in the last five years, from 239,000 to 250,000 (rounded) (i.e. around 560 vehicles for each lane kilometre of road in early 2023), the number of traffic accidents in Macau has not risen proportionately. Indeed, the graph shows a falling trendline. For lovers of statistics, a simple regression of the number of vehicles in Macau on the number of its traffic accidents indicates that the number of registered vehicles bears very little explanatory relationship (-26.6 per cent) to the number of road accidents. How, then, can the falling trendline in accidents be explained?\n\n\n\nIs it because Macau\u2019s drivers simply resign themselves to having to tolerate the open hostility of other drivers in Macau, particularly the taxi drivers, motorcycle delivery riders, owners of expensive cars who think that they can do whatever they wish because they are so pathetically rich and big? Yes. \n\n\n\nIs it because of the tolerant nature of many of Macau\u2019s citizens (that is, excluding the speed maniacs who think that it is fair game to put others\u2019 lives at risk by weaving in and out of traffic at top speed, for the sake of gaining a few seconds of time)? Yes.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIs because drivers simply stop to pick up or drop off people or things, particularly in Macau\u2019s many narrow streets, so there is nothing to do but wait until those drivers graciously, or often uncaringly, decide to move on? Yes.\n\n\n\nIs it perhaps because Macau drivers are getting better at driving safely? No; it is the endless, disproportionate rows of barriers that separate lanes of Macau\u2019s roads in order to cope with, and reduce accidents caused by, drivers who constantly disobey lane discipline and courtesy. \n\n\n\nIs it because the traffic congestion everywhere reduces speed, particularly when traffic diversions suddenly spring up for endless road works in meeting Macau\u2019s obsessive-compulsive disorder and major sport of digging repeatedly? Yes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource: DSEC\n\n\n\nIs it because Macau\u2019s poor-quality road surface is full of gaping holes that appear after a couple of hours of rain, bringing lane closures? Yes. \n\n\n\nIs it because attempts to reduce traffic congestion have not really worked, even with a myriad of traffic lights, surveillance cameras, on-duty police, changed road layouts, new stretches of road and bypasses, speed reduction bumps (\u2018sleeping policemen\u2019) everywhere on the roads? Yes.\n\n\n\nThere are many possible reasons, but only a few are positive. So, drivers beware; the silly season of summer brings the increased charms of games of chance on Macau\u2019s roads. If only, as in cities elsewhere, real provision was made for cyclists. But that is light years away in Macau. Motor vehicles reign supreme in Macau.", "date_published": "August 22, 2023", "date_modified": "August 23, 2023 - 00:47", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2017/02/traffic.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Here we are, back in full-throttle summer tourism in tiny Macau, with visitors galore, lines of tourist coaches everywhere, and the casinos back on course to welcome gamblers. However, gambling reaches much wider than Macau\u2019s casinos." }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e5%85%89%e8%88%87%e5%bd%b1/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e5%85%89%e8%88%87%e5%bd%b1/", "title": "\u3010\u6642\u4e8b\u8a55\u8ad6\u3011\u5149\u8207\u5f71", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CKK_5922-150x150.jpg\")
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\nMacau Business | July 2023
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nThe recent euphoria over Macau\u2019s economic resurrection should not mask the long-standing challenges facing its society and values. Sunshine creates shadows in which can lurk a range of pathologies.
\n\n\n\nIdentifying pathologies of society has been the \u2018bread and butter\u2019 of critical theorists who gleefully identify social pathogens. Consider Horkheimer\u2019s early pathogen of instrumental reason and the sacrifice to scientism of any concern for ethics and values, alongside Adorno\u2019s disarming pathogen of the deformation of humans by ersatz, popular culture, and Marcuse\u2019s \u2018one-dimensional man\u2019 living with consumerism and anaesthetising mass media. Then along came Habermas\u2019s pathogen of power-distorted communication and his blistering \u2018colonization\u2019 of everyday \u2018lifeworlds\u2019 by bureaucracy, power, and money, in which businesses and the state increasingly control everyday life. Then came Honneth\u2019s pathogen of misrecognition of, and disrespect for, marginalised peoples in society, and Bauman\u2019s liquid, ever-changing, formless, non-rooted, short-lived societies of the postmodern, materialist, post-industrial information age. A cornucopia of diseases in every quarter of dystopic society.
\n\n\n\nSounds familiar? What if all these pathogens existed simultaneously, fused together? They do, and in introverted little Macau; a witches\u2019 brew of pathogens that make Shakespeare\u2019s \u2018eye of newt and toe of frog\u2019 seem like a herbalist\u2019s tea party.
\n\n\n\nLook at Macau\u2019s glorified preoccupation with materialism, business, and money as the paths to progress and betterment, and as prophylactics against social instability and ruin. Look at the dumbing-down nonsense of the instantly gratifying Tik Tok world of mass media, the pathetic immediacy of social networking, the \u2018chewing gum of the eyes\u2019 of television, the gamification of everyday life, and the addiction to banal cellphone entertainment, all governing the lifeworlds of Macau\u2019s population. Walk down Macau\u2019s shopping malls to see materialist consumption as the purpose of life.
\n\n\n\nLook, too, at Macau\u2019s bureaucracy that renders its government workers apparent reluctance to disclose useful information to the public and not caring about anything other than protecting themselves from risk and from being seen to step out of line. Bureaucracy penetrates the everyday lives of Macau\u2019s citizens; look at the packed public areas of government offices and their ticketed queues lined up, clutching endless documents, the opening gambit of which is the order to show your identify card. Even our noble police do this when they play their \u2018stop you late at night\u2019 game, flashing down your car for a spot check, proudly shining their prized, beautiful torches right in your eyes, uttering \u2018sweet nothings\u2019 in your ear, and all without a word of justification for such personal affront. What power! Consider Macau\u2019s marriage to ubiquitous, everlasting surveillance of its citizens, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part.
\n\n\n\nLook at the marginalisation and disrespect shown to non-local labourers in Macau, regardless of its economy being built on the backs of their grinding, low-paid work. Just stay for a few minutes in Macau\u2019s government offices and witness repeated failure to show these workers due dignity, respect, courtesy, inclusion, and value.
\n\n\n\nYes, Macau, like elsewhere, lives in a shadowland of multiple pathologies. What are its citizens and leaders doing to improve values, morals, humanity, the public good, social justice, community, alternatives to materialism, and redemption from the iron cage of bureaucracy and control, all buttressed up by money, power elites, media, and sanctified by the state? What are business leaders doing to develop humans who are more than formatted, consumer-programmed predatory robots, and whose brain is real, not artificial? What are Macau\u2019s leaders doing apart from trumpeting the reach of materialism, business, guanxi, and love for anything that they declare should be loved? Whatever happened to values interrogation, critique, debate, and ethics? Consumed in the fire of security protection, quietening Macau\u2019s self-censoring media? Alongside Macau\u2019s glorious economic recovery reside febrility, multiple and mutually infecting pathogens, and sicknesses that cannot be cured by reliance on tourists\u2019 money alone. Where are Macau\u2019s healers, its leaders of social and ethical responsibility?
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | July 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe recent euphoria over Macau\u2019s economic resurrection should not mask the long-standing challenges facing its society and values. Sunshine creates shadows in which can lurk a range of pathologies.\n\n\n\nIdentifying pathologies of society has been the \u2018bread and butter\u2019 of critical theorists who gleefully identify social pathogens. Consider Horkheimer\u2019s early pathogen of instrumental reason and the sacrifice to scientism of any concern for ethics and values, alongside Adorno\u2019s disarming pathogen of the deformation of humans by ersatz, popular culture, and Marcuse\u2019s \u2018one-dimensional man\u2019 living with consumerism and anaesthetising mass media. Then along came Habermas\u2019s pathogen of power-distorted communication and his blistering \u2018colonization\u2019 of everyday \u2018lifeworlds\u2019 by bureaucracy, power, and money, in which businesses and the state increasingly control everyday life. Then came Honneth\u2019s pathogen of misrecognition of, and disrespect for, marginalised peoples in society, and Bauman\u2019s liquid, ever-changing, formless, non-rooted, short-lived societies of the postmodern, materialist, post-industrial information age. A cornucopia of diseases in every quarter of dystopic society.\n\n\n\nSounds familiar? What if all these pathogens existed simultaneously, fused together? They do, and in introverted little Macau; a witches\u2019 brew of pathogens that make Shakespeare\u2019s \u2018eye of newt and toe of frog\u2019 seem like a herbalist\u2019s tea party. \n\n\n\nLook at Macau\u2019s glorified preoccupation with materialism, business, and money as the paths to progress and betterment, and as prophylactics against social instability and ruin. Look at the dumbing-down nonsense of the instantly gratifying Tik Tok world of mass media, the pathetic immediacy of social networking, the \u2018chewing gum of the eyes\u2019 of television, the gamification of everyday life, and the addiction to banal cellphone entertainment, all governing the lifeworlds of Macau\u2019s population. Walk down Macau\u2019s shopping malls to see materialist consumption as the purpose of life. \n\n\n\nLook, too, at Macau\u2019s bureaucracy that renders its government workers apparent reluctance to disclose useful information to the public and not caring about anything other than protecting themselves from risk and from being seen to step out of line. Bureaucracy penetrates the everyday lives of Macau\u2019s citizens; look at the packed public areas of government offices and their ticketed queues lined up, clutching endless documents, the opening gambit of which is the order to show your identify card. Even our noble police do this when they play their \u2018stop you late at night\u2019 game, flashing down your car for a spot check, proudly shining their prized, beautiful torches right in your eyes, uttering \u2018sweet nothings\u2019 in your ear, and all without a word of justification for such personal affront. What power! Consider Macau\u2019s marriage to ubiquitous, everlasting surveillance of its citizens, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part.\n\n\n\nLook at the marginalisation and disrespect shown to non-local labourers in Macau, regardless of its economy being built on the backs of their grinding, low-paid work. Just stay for a few minutes in Macau\u2019s government offices and witness repeated failure to show these workers due dignity, respect, courtesy, inclusion, and value. \n\n\n\nYes, Macau, like elsewhere, lives in a shadowland of multiple pathologies. What are its citizens and leaders doing to improve values, morals, humanity, the public good, social justice, community, alternatives to materialism, and redemption from the iron cage of bureaucracy and control, all buttressed up by money, power elites, media, and sanctified by the state? What are business leaders doing to develop humans who are more than formatted, consumer-programmed predatory robots, and whose brain is real, not artificial? What are Macau\u2019s leaders doing apart from trumpeting the reach of materialism, business, guanxi, and love for anything that they declare should be loved? Whatever happened to values interrogation, critique, debate, and ethics? Consumed in the fire of security protection, quietening Macau\u2019s self-censoring media? Alongside Macau\u2019s glorious economic recovery reside febrility, multiple and mutually infecting pathogens, and sicknesses that cannot be cured by reliance on tourists\u2019 money alone. Where are Macau\u2019s healers, its leaders of social and ethical responsibility?", "date_published": "July 16, 2023", "date_modified": "July 16, 2023 - 15:16", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/population-sunshine-shadows-zebra-crossing-crosswalk-people-.png", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "The recent euphoria over Macau\u2019s economic resurrection should not mask the long-standing challenges facing its society and values. Sunshine creates shadows in which can lurk a range of pathologies." }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-chatting-about-chatting/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-chatting-about-chatting/", "title": "OPINION \u2013 Chatting about chatting", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/chatgpt-technology--150x150.png\")
\nMacau Business | June 2023
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nMany employers in Macau expect their employees to have received higher education (HE). This returns to the endless question of what HE is for; is it for job knowledge and skills acquisition, attitude development, thinking abilities, creativity, problem solving, how to learn, or what? What and whose knowledge? Adding to this knotty problem, along comes Artificial Intelligence (AI), with ChatGPT, to challenge HE\u2019s role in being what Stephen Heimans and his associates, earlier this year, called \u2018gatekeepers of knowledge and producers of qualificated [sic] people\u2019. Their concern is well founded, and businesses need creators, not copycats. Can ChatGPT and its lookalikes help or hinder here?
\n\n\n\nIn Macau, the widespread order of the day for education is to be able to repeat what the teacher and the textbook say as if they are unquestionable truths to be memorised and regurgitated on demand. How useful is that for jobs? Is it to learn to do as you are told, to repeat others\u2019 thoughts, right at a time when entrepreneurship, novelty, originality, flexibility, and the need for new ideas are on everyone\u2019s lips in business?
\n\n\n\nHow, then, does AI feature here? The arrival of ChatGPT in HE across the world (not permitted in Macau but let us not pretend that it does not exist here; it does, and we cannot hold back the tide) raises interesting questions.
\n\n\n\nOn the one hand it releases HE students from reliance on the teacher and textbooks, and it can promote freedom of thought, enquiry, and interests, i.e. exactly what education and business need. It can call up, organise and present important and useful knowledge at the press of a button, saving time and unnecessary effort, again exactly what business needs.
\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, for lazy HE students seeking an easy life, ChagtGPT is the cure-all for the unpleasant demands placed upon them to think for themselves and to own up to the authenticity of the assignments that they submit. They can enjoy the quick-fix injection of AI directly into what little of their brain they are prepared to devote to their studies. It becomes the solution to what they regard as the audacious, intolerable calls made on them by teachers, to think for themselves for more than five minutes a day and to do their own work. It can make students intellectually lazy, too casual, and happy for something or someone else to do their thinking and then to pass it off as their own thoughts if they can get away with it. No wonder that HE teachers across the world rail against the power and potential of ChatGPT and similar software to damage thinking and academic integrity, to promote plagiarism and theft of intellectual property and personal identity, to breach data protection, and to corrupt the learning of values and ethics. Learning and business must be ethical.
\n\n\n\nImportantly, ChatGPT raises interesting questions about the purposes and values that we wish to inculcate in HE, and the pedagogical strategies that currently feature in too many dry-as-dust, meaningless classes in Macau\u2019s HE institutions. Is ChatGPT and/or its lookalikes any worse than students sitting silently in class whilst the teacher at the front drones on, bristling with apathy regarding whether they listen, sleep, surf the internet, chat online, play online games, or simply stare vapidly into space? Well, yes, it is worse, as all too easily it neglects learning about, and practising, responsibility and thinking for oneself about knowledge, ideas, issues, ethics, and values, i.e. exactly what business and entrepreneurship need.
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://www.macaubusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Artificial_Intelligence__AI__Machine_Learning-1028x822.jpeg\")
ChatGPT is a powerful impetus for the need to redirect attention away from HE\u2019s concern for largely product-focused learning and outcomes, its preoccupation with marks, metrics, and performativity, the narrow instrumentalism and technicism of much HE, immunised against considerations of humanity and discourses of values and ethics which surely should be the basis of living and business. ChatGPT raises questions of processes, meanings, and ownership of learning, what and whose knowledge, and the values, ethics, and purposes of, education, i.e. matters that ChatGPT and its lookalikes cannot decide for us.
\n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence is an artifice, a simulacrum, a dangerous proxy for education and learning. \u2018Real\u2019 HE, with or without ChatGPT, concerns values, ethics, responsibilities and responsible citizens, existential freedoms, decision making, and the furtherance of an open knowledge democracy for humans and societies; these surely, are also the purpose of business \u2013 promoting the good life for all. How to make ChatGPT work for, rather than to deform, HE and its human, ethical, and societal purposes?
\n\n\n\nChatGPT and its lookalikes in HE are promiscuous, seductive, flirtatious, comely, addictive sedatives, risking creating parrots rather than humans. Yet they are simultaneously a stimulant, a timely wake-up call to review HE\u2019s key purposes, features, values, processes and contents of teaching and learning, and how these align themselves to what kind of citizens we want and what kind of employees we need, and what for. ChatGPT foregrounds the need to revive the personalised, individualised, face-to-face, viva-based, in-depth questioning and challenging of students and their thinking and enquiry, interrogating what they really know, how and why they learn, how to assess them, and what behaving ethically means. These are also what business needs.
\n\n\n\nIf only ChatGPT and its lookalikes were freely available in Macau, rather than having to be an underground, illegal, banned substance. This could give rise to long-overdue changes in higher education in Macau.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | June 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMany employers in Macau expect their employees to have received higher education (HE). This returns to the endless question of what HE is for; is it for job knowledge and skills acquisition, attitude development, thinking abilities, creativity, problem solving, how to learn, or what? What and whose knowledge? Adding to this knotty problem, along comes Artificial Intelligence (AI), with ChatGPT, to challenge HE\u2019s role in being what Stephen Heimans and his associates, earlier this year, called \u2018gatekeepers of knowledge and producers of qualificated [sic] people\u2019. Their concern is well founded, and businesses need creators, not copycats. Can ChatGPT and its lookalikes help or hinder here?\n\n\n\nIn Macau, the widespread order of the day for education is to be able to repeat what the teacher and the textbook say as if they are unquestionable truths to be memorised and regurgitated on demand. How useful is that for jobs? Is it to learn to do as you are told, to repeat others\u2019 thoughts, right at a time when entrepreneurship, novelty, originality, flexibility, and the need for new ideas are on everyone\u2019s lips in business? \n\n\n\nHow, then, does AI feature here? The arrival of ChatGPT in HE across the world (not permitted in Macau but let us not pretend that it does not exist here; it does, and we cannot hold back the tide) raises interesting questions. \n\n\n\nOn the one hand it releases HE students from reliance on the teacher and textbooks, and it can promote freedom of thought, enquiry, and interests, i.e. exactly what education and business need. It can call up, organise and present important and useful knowledge at the press of a button, saving time and unnecessary effort, again exactly what business needs. \n\n\n\nOn the other hand, for lazy HE students seeking an easy life, ChagtGPT is the cure-all for the unpleasant demands placed upon them to think for themselves and to own up to the authenticity of the assignments that they submit. They can enjoy the quick-fix injection of AI directly into what little of their brain they are prepared to devote to their studies. It becomes the solution to what they regard as the audacious, intolerable calls made on them by teachers, to think for themselves for more than five minutes a day and to do their own work. It can make students intellectually lazy, too casual, and happy for something or someone else to do their thinking and then to pass it off as their own thoughts if they can get away with it. No wonder that HE teachers across the world rail against the power and potential of ChatGPT and similar software to damage thinking and academic integrity, to promote plagiarism and theft of intellectual property and personal identity, to breach data protection, and to corrupt the learning of values and ethics. Learning and business must be ethical.\n\n\n\nImportantly, ChatGPT raises interesting questions about the purposes and values that we wish to inculcate in HE, and the pedagogical strategies that currently feature in too many dry-as-dust, meaningless classes in Macau\u2019s HE institutions. Is ChatGPT and/or its lookalikes any worse than students sitting silently in class whilst the teacher at the front drones on, bristling with apathy regarding whether they listen, sleep, surf the internet, chat online, play online games, or simply stare vapidly into space? Well, yes, it is worse, as all too easily it neglects learning about, and practising, responsibility and thinking for oneself about knowledge, ideas, issues, ethics, and values, i.e. exactly what business and entrepreneurship need.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChatGPT is a powerful impetus for the need to redirect attention away from HE\u2019s concern for largely product-focused learning and outcomes, its preoccupation with marks, metrics, and performativity, the narrow instrumentalism and technicism of much HE, immunised against considerations of humanity and discourses of values and ethics which surely should be the basis of living and business. ChatGPT raises questions of processes, meanings, and ownership of learning, what and whose knowledge, and the values, ethics, and purposes of, education, i.e. matters that ChatGPT and its lookalikes cannot decide for us. \n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence is an artifice, a simulacrum, a dangerous proxy for education and learning. \u2018Real\u2019 HE, with or without ChatGPT, concerns values, ethics, responsibilities and responsible citizens, existential freedoms, decision making, and the furtherance of an open knowledge democracy for humans and societies; these surely, are also the purpose of business \u2013 promoting the good life for all. How to make ChatGPT work for, rather than to deform, HE and its human, ethical, and societal purposes?\n\n\n\nChatGPT and its lookalikes in HE are promiscuous, seductive, flirtatious, comely, addictive sedatives, risking creating parrots rather than humans. Yet they are simultaneously a stimulant, a timely wake-up call to review HE\u2019s key purposes, features, values, processes and contents of teaching and learning, and how these align themselves to what kind of citizens we want and what kind of employees we need, and what for. ChatGPT foregrounds the need to revive the personalised, individualised, face-to-face, viva-based, in-depth questioning and challenging of students and their thinking and enquiry, interrogating what they really know, how and why they learn, how to assess them, and what behaving ethically means. These are also what business needs.\n\n\n\nIf only ChatGPT and its lookalikes were freely available in Macau, rather than having to be an underground, illegal, banned substance. This could give rise to long-overdue changes in higher education in Macau.", "date_published": "July 07, 2023", "date_modified": "July 07, 2023 - 19:14", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/chatgpt-technology-.png", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Many employers in Macau expect their employees to have received higher education (HE). This returns to the endless question of what HE is for; is it for job knowledge and skills acquisition, attitude development, thinking abilities, creativity, problem solving, how to learn, or what? What and whose knowledge? 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\nMacau Business | May 2023
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nIn his 1943 detective novel \u2018The Weight of Evidence\u2019, the author, Michael Innes, rephrases the age-old debate on the meaning of science: \u2018is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic and political demands?\u2019
\n\n\n\nHere, 80 years on, there is a tacit nod to this question in recent comments at a press conference given by Macau\u2019s Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT), an important, generous arm of the Macau government which gives money to scientific projects (currently up to 470 million patacas). Here, if the report is accurate, funding for scientific projects proposals from universities will be vetted \u2013 selected in or out for funding \u2013 based on \u2018their innovativeness, academic values, research methods and prospects of practicality\u2019. Proposals from \u2018enterprises\u2019 will be vetted for their \u2018technicality, feasibility, economic and social efficacy, as well as their possibility for industry-campus-research collaborations\u2019. It sounds promising. But what, actually, is it promising?
\n\n\n\nWhat we are seeing here is a miniaturised version of the Triple Helix model of innovation, wherein government, industry, and universities work together for the economic and social development of the region. Such synergies can be highly productive, bringing massive social benefits, of which mainland China is one of the world\u2019s leading examples in \u2018levelling up\u2019, reducing poverty, and developing infrastructure in a telescoped time frame.
\n\n\n\nBut pause for a moment. What are the FDCT\u2019s \u2018academic values\u2019 here? One debate in higher education is the extent to which universities, centres of scholarship and learning in all fields, have entered into a Faustian pact and sold out to mass-market, consumer-based, training-based, materialistic, product-oriented, employment-focused education rather than to the higher interrogation of values, ethics, and learning in broad and deep senses.
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Universities have marginalised deliberation, questioning, disputation, debate on virtues, arts, humanities, and the pursuit of the good life by the rounded, thinking, ethically alert person and society. Rather, many have become polytechnics and technical colleges in sheep\u2019s clothing and academic gowns, shops for commercialised, industrialised, practicalised, technicised, materialist values and products. Ironically, credentials, as a market commodity, have increasingly less value in the employment stakes, but they feed competitive mentalities in which knowledge is cheapened to a purchasable product that props us politico-economic agendas.
\n\n\n\nTo restrict scientific research in Macau to selected industrial, material projects, influenced by economics and the politics of government agendas, is to straitjacket rather than to release the creativity that Macau needs but lacks so much.
\n\n\n\nSurely nobody would quarrel with the role of universities in producing high-level scientific developments of a practical nature, but this is not the question. Question: \u2018at what cost to the other sciences that make humans what they are, that are faithful to the richer, deeper, view of the sciences as knowledge (scientia), is a narrow, philistine view of sciences as those which can be industrialised and commercialised and have a direct practical application?\u2019 Answer: a cheapening of science and of the humanness of humans, and a narrowing of the traditional role of universities as bastions and protectors of the richness and diversity of human endeavour and creativity.
\n\n\n\nQuestion: from where do practical applications originate? Answer: pure science, abstract science, theoretical science, scholarly knowledge, broad and deep learning, critical thinking, imagining, creativity, artistry, humanity, trying out, thinking out of the box. As Kant reputedly said: \u2018practice without theory is blind\u2019; they co-exist symbiotically. So, why privilege some views of science so massively over other views of science? Why limit science to feeding factory products?
\n\n\n\nQuestion: what has happened to deep-seated, responsible academic \u2018freedom from\u2019 constraint, and \u2018freedom for\u2019 the unleashing of creativity, imagination, scholarship, academic pluralism, critique, diverse freedoms, rich science, and scientia? Answer: flushed down the gold-plated, immaculately produced, identically manufactured, antiseptically maintained, scientifically tested, human-proof, perfectly industrialised toilet.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | May 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn his 1943 detective novel \u2018The Weight of Evidence\u2019, the author, Michael Innes, rephrases the age-old debate on the meaning of science: \u2018is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic and political demands?\u2019 \n\n\n\nHere, 80 years on, there is a tacit nod to this question in recent comments at a press conference given by Macau\u2019s Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT), an important, generous arm of the Macau government which gives money to scientific projects (currently up to 470 million patacas). Here, if the report is accurate, funding for scientific projects proposals from universities will be vetted \u2013 selected in or out for funding \u2013 based on \u2018their innovativeness, academic values, research methods and prospects of practicality\u2019. Proposals from \u2018enterprises\u2019 will be vetted for their \u2018technicality, feasibility, economic and social efficacy, as well as their possibility for industry-campus-research collaborations\u2019. It sounds promising. But what, actually, is it promising?\n\n\n\nWhat we are seeing here is a miniaturised version of the Triple Helix model of innovation, wherein government, industry, and universities work together for the economic and social development of the region. Such synergies can be highly productive, bringing massive social benefits, of which mainland China is one of the world\u2019s leading examples in \u2018levelling up\u2019, reducing poverty, and developing infrastructure in a telescoped time frame.\n\n\n\nBut pause for a moment. What are the FDCT\u2019s \u2018academic values\u2019 here? One debate in higher education is the extent to which universities, centres of scholarship and learning in all fields, have entered into a Faustian pact and sold out to mass-market, consumer-based, training-based, materialistic, product-oriented, employment-focused education rather than to the higher interrogation of values, ethics, and learning in broad and deep senses. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUniversities have marginalised deliberation, questioning, disputation, debate on virtues, arts, humanities, and the pursuit of the good life by the rounded, thinking, ethically alert person and society. Rather, many have become polytechnics and technical colleges in sheep\u2019s clothing and academic gowns, shops for commercialised, industrialised, practicalised, technicised, materialist values and products. Ironically, credentials, as a market commodity, have increasingly less value in the employment stakes, but they feed competitive mentalities in which knowledge is cheapened to a purchasable product that props us politico-economic agendas. \n\n\n\nTo restrict scientific research in Macau to selected industrial, material projects, influenced by economics and the politics of government agendas, is to straitjacket rather than to release the creativity that Macau needs but lacks so much. \n\n\n\nSurely nobody would quarrel with the role of universities in producing high-level scientific developments of a practical nature, but this is not the question. Question: \u2018at what cost to the other sciences that make humans what they are, that are faithful to the richer, deeper, view of the sciences as knowledge (scientia), is a narrow, philistine view of sciences as those which can be industrialised and commercialised and have a direct practical application?\u2019 Answer: a cheapening of science and of the humanness of humans, and a narrowing of the traditional role of universities as bastions and protectors of the richness and diversity of human endeavour and creativity. \n\n\n\nQuestion: from where do practical applications originate? Answer: pure science, abstract science, theoretical science, scholarly knowledge, broad and deep learning, critical thinking, imagining, creativity, artistry, humanity, trying out, thinking out of the box. As Kant reputedly said: \u2018practice without theory is blind\u2019; they co-exist symbiotically. So, why privilege some views of science so massively over other views of science? Why limit science to feeding factory products? \n\n\n\nQuestion: what has happened to deep-seated, responsible academic \u2018freedom from\u2019 constraint, and \u2018freedom for\u2019 the unleashing of creativity, imagination, scholarship, academic pluralism, critique, diverse freedoms, rich science, and scientia? Answer: flushed down the gold-plated, immaculately produced, identically manufactured, antiseptically maintained, scientifically tested, human-proof, perfectly industrialised toilet.", "date_published": "June 04, 2023", "date_modified": "June 04, 2023 - 19:04", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/science-chemistry.png", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "In his 1943 detective novel \u2018The Weight of Evidence\u2019, the author, Michael Innes, rephrases the age-old debate on the meaning of science: \u2018is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic and political demands?\u2019 " }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e7%a7%91%e5%ad%b8%e4%ba%8b%e6%a5%ad/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/%e3%80%90%e6%99%82%e4%ba%8b%e8%a9%95%e8%ab%96%e3%80%91%e6%be%b3%e9%96%80%e7%a7%91%e5%ad%b8%e4%ba%8b%e6%a5%ad/", "title": "\u3010\u6642\u4e8b\u8a55\u8ad6\u3011\u6fb3\u9580\u79d1\u5b78\u4e8b\u696d", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2017/02/sciencefund-1-150x150.jpg\")
\n\u6587\uff1aKeith Morrison | \u4f5c\u5bb6\u53ca\u6559\u80b2\u5bb6
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\nMacau Business | April 2023
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nAs Macau rebuilds its post-pandemic economy, one could be forgiven for believing that the good life for all has arrived, as evidenced in the manifest opulence on display in its up-market shopping malls. However, this is not the case; social justice needs attention in Macau.
\n\n\n\nSocial justice, Hayek\u2019s scornful and derisive antithesis of neoliberalism, is in limited supply in Macau, and is found wanting in several areas. Whilst social justice is a slippery term, several common areas can be identified, e.g. fair (re)distribution of wealth, resources, opportunities, rewards and responsibilities, and practical recognition of the rights of minorities.
\n\n\n\nMany years ago the United Nations identified income and \u2018opportunities for work and remunerated employment\u2019 as key indicators of social justice. These are a persistent problem in present-day Macau. When one looks at job opportunities in Macau, the number of dead-end jobs disproportionately exceeds the number of fulfilling, meaningful careers and creative, diverse employment opportunities. Why, each month, do over 23,000 employed people in Macau earn below 5,000 patacas, and over 95,000 (26 per cent of the employed population) earn below 10,000 patacas (latest figures available)? For them, social justice is a pipe dream, an irrelevance in the press for daily survival.
\n\n\n\nSocial justice also includes access to housing, health care, food, social services, and attention to the poor and needy. Rawls\u2019s celebrated theory of distributive justice noted that social and economic development should bring \u2018the greatest benefit of the least-advantaged members of society\u2019, i.e. levelling up. Does it, in Macau?
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For the social philosopher Axel Honneth, the moral imperative of social justice extends beyond the \u2018fair or just distribution of material goods\u2019. For Honneth, the pathology of social injustice resides in disrespect for the identities, recognition, and empowerment of diverse subaltern groups in society, and their exclusion from access to opportunities for their own and others\u2019 development and the good life. This pathology exists in Macau. For example, with regard to education, why are affordable, decent schools for non-Chinese speaking children of expatriate workers so limited in Macau? With regard to housing, why is it that low-skilled, often migrant, shift workers share beds and cramped accommodation in Macau, just to eke out a living? Why do people still live in converted containers and corrugated iron huts in Macau? Whilst instant ghettoes of social housing are being built on Macau\u2019s reclaimed land, housing is simply unaffordable for huge numbers of the population, whether they are the \u2018sandwich class\u2019, the full-on banquet class, or the crumbs-from-the-rich-man\u2019s-table class.
\n\n\n\nHealth care and social care for the increasing number of Macau\u2019s elderly population are tottering on the edge of the precipice to total disaster. Why do patients of all ages go to Hong Kong for medical treatment, even when it is paid for by the Macau government? Where are the local facilities?
\n\n\n\nThe list of limits to social justice in Macau is endless. Economic, social, personal, psychological, residential, educational, familial, medical, environmental, and developmental support for the poor of all ages is an urgent need in Macau, even though well-intended moves in this direction have been made in the last two decades. The annual financial handout to Macau\u2019s citizens is a welcome but token nod to redistributive justice, whilst leaving the wealthy few untouched and free to continue their lives of privilege, self-indulgence, asset-driven materialism, and wealth accumulation.
\n\n\n\nSocial justice in diverse areas sets a formidable agenda for Macau\u2019s development that reaches far beyond materialism and wealth creation. It is a moral obligation, and it should be the touchstone of the Macau government\u2019s plans for societal, economic, and personal development. The business of social justice in Macau should be at the heart of the business community in Macau. Is it?
\n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s economic development must build on a moral foundation which replaces the contemptible neoliberal, Hayekian, license of self-interested, exploitative actions and behaviour, with societal and moral responsibility, and generalizable, mutual interests. Social justice puts to shame Hayek\u2019s shocking contention that social justice \u2018is intellectually disreputable\u2019, vacuous, and dishonest.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | April 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs Macau rebuilds its post-pandemic economy, one could be forgiven for believing that the good life for all has arrived, as evidenced in the manifest opulence on display in its up-market shopping malls. However, this is not the case; social justice needs attention in Macau. \n\n\n\nSocial justice, Hayek\u2019s scornful and derisive antithesis of neoliberalism, is in limited supply in Macau, and is found wanting in several areas. Whilst social justice is a slippery term, several common areas can be identified, e.g. fair (re)distribution of wealth, resources, opportunities, rewards and responsibilities, and practical recognition of the rights of minorities. \n\n\n\nMany years ago the United Nations identified income and \u2018opportunities for work and remunerated employment\u2019 as key indicators of social justice. These are a persistent problem in present-day Macau. When one looks at job opportunities in Macau, the number of dead-end jobs disproportionately exceeds the number of fulfilling, meaningful careers and creative, diverse employment opportunities. Why, each month, do over 23,000 employed people in Macau earn below 5,000 patacas, and over 95,000 (26 per cent of the employed population) earn below 10,000 patacas (latest figures available)? For them, social justice is a pipe dream, an irrelevance in the press for daily survival.\n\n\n\nSocial justice also includes access to housing, health care, food, social services, and attention to the poor and needy. Rawls\u2019s celebrated theory of distributive justice noted that social and economic development should bring \u2018the greatest benefit of the least-advantaged members of society\u2019, i.e. levelling up. Does it, in Macau? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor the social philosopher Axel Honneth, the moral imperative of social justice extends beyond the \u2018fair or just distribution of material goods\u2019. For Honneth, the pathology of social injustice resides in disrespect for the identities, recognition, and empowerment of diverse subaltern groups in society, and their exclusion from access to opportunities for their own and others\u2019 development and the good life. This pathology exists in Macau. For example, with regard to education, why are affordable, decent schools for non-Chinese speaking children of expatriate workers so limited in Macau? With regard to housing, why is it that low-skilled, often migrant, shift workers share beds and cramped accommodation in Macau, just to eke out a living? Why do people still live in converted containers and corrugated iron huts in Macau? Whilst instant ghettoes of social housing are being built on Macau\u2019s reclaimed land, housing is simply unaffordable for huge numbers of the population, whether they are the \u2018sandwich class\u2019, the full-on banquet class, or the crumbs-from-the-rich-man\u2019s-table class. \n\n\n\nHealth care and social care for the increasing number of Macau\u2019s elderly population are tottering on the edge of the precipice to total disaster. Why do patients of all ages go to Hong Kong for medical treatment, even when it is paid for by the Macau government? Where are the local facilities? \n\n\n\nThe list of limits to social justice in Macau is endless. Economic, social, personal, psychological, residential, educational, familial, medical, environmental, and developmental support for the poor of all ages is an urgent need in Macau, even though well-intended moves in this direction have been made in the last two decades. The annual financial handout to Macau\u2019s citizens is a welcome but token nod to redistributive justice, whilst leaving the wealthy few untouched and free to continue their lives of privilege, self-indulgence, asset-driven materialism, and wealth accumulation. \n\n\n\nSocial justice in diverse areas sets a formidable agenda for Macau\u2019s development that reaches far beyond materialism and wealth creation. It is a moral obligation, and it should be the touchstone of the Macau government\u2019s plans for societal, economic, and personal development. The business of social justice in Macau should be at the heart of the business community in Macau. Is it? \n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s economic development must build on a moral foundation which replaces the contemptible neoliberal, Hayekian, license of self-interested, exploitative actions and behaviour, with societal and moral responsibility, and generalizable, mutual interests. Social justice puts to shame Hayek\u2019s shocking contention that social justice \u2018is intellectually disreputable\u2019, vacuous, and dishonest.", "date_published": "April 22, 2023", "date_modified": "April 21, 2023 - 15:37", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/n20ihbtg1m__t20200909120938.jpeg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "As Macau rebuilds its post-pandemic economy, one could be forgiven for believing that the good life for all has arrived, as evidenced in the manifest opulence on display in its up-market shopping malls. However, this is not the case; social justice needs attention in Macau. 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\nMacau Business | March 2023
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s development of international and tertiary sector industries is the watchword for its long-overdue diversification. Is Macau ready for this?
\n\n\n\nImagine that an entrepreneur wishes to open a substantial financial service business that builds on Macau\u2019s positioning between East and West. She advertises for a senior position with demanding applicant requirements: high-level knowledge, skills, and international leadership and management expertise and experience in areas such as international finance, banking, international commercial law, wealth management; and fluency in two world languages. She sends to the relevant Macau\u2019s government office her proposal to recruit a highly skilled expatriate applicant who fits the bill. The office\u2019s response is \u2018you need to prove that there is no local who can do this, and, anyway, it will take two or three months to process an expatriate\u2019. The employer searches and then replies: \u2018no local has been found\u2019, so, eventually, the government office\u2019s response is \u2018go ahead with the expatriate\u2019. \u2018Too late\u2019 says the employer, \u2018the applicant took up a position in Dubai\u2019.
\n\n\n\nThis problem touches tertiary industries in Macau: business, commerce, education, health, IT, real estate, finance, personal services, and so on. For diversification to progress, the demand increases for highly skilled, internationally experienced, expatriate experts in Macau. Get the message: Macau does not have enough of them, and Macau\u2019s slow-motion procedures for permitting international expatriate experts to work in Macau frustrates attempts to recruit internationally.
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With Macau\u2019s reliance on international, highly skilled, employees, it would be commonsense for the recruitment and entry of high-level expatriate experts to work in Macau to be a rapid, straightforward, no-nonsense matter. Well, think again.
\n\n\n\nThe government\u2019s lack of streamlined procedures for recruiting international, expert, highly skilled, richly experienced workers from outside Macau, is counterintuitive. Processing by, and receiving clearance from, the government to employ non-local experts on a full-time, part-time, or short-term basis, can take months. Just when Macau has turned a corner in recovering from its ailing economy, such hobbling of the agility of employers and entrepreneurs to meet Macau\u2019s tertiary sector\u2019s need for international, top-level workers is the very opposite of what is required. The speed at which expatriate high-level workers in other parts of the world are welcomed and whose clearance is processed in hours and days, should make Macau blush.
\n\n\n\nOther countries snap up top-level expatriate experts from across the world with astonishing alacrity; they know that they have to act fast, or they will lose them. Look at Dubai, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi, with some 88.5 per cent of expatriate workers, whose tertiary, finance, and service industries attract experts globally. International companies and organisations set up shop there, and the government processing of employment matters can be fast-tracked to corner the market. They welcome, not obstruct, expatriate experts. No wonder they flourish.
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Compare this to Macau, whose employers are pressed to conduct a knowingly fruitless internal search for local people who have the required top-class knowledge and expertise, rich international experience, advanced training, high-level management expertise, and outstanding skills. Surprise, surprise; employers find none, by which time a potential expatriate expert applicant has found employment elsewhere. And what happens next? The Macau government office shrugs its shoulders, thinks \u2018ah well, that\u2019s life\u2019, and continues to pursue its existing course, and at a slow pace that would outclass a snail. Does the government office really think that employers have not done their initial homework on the local situation or do not know what they need?
\n\n\n\nIf Macau is to turn its affection for tertiary diversification and development into real practice, benefiting Macau, then its government offices must recognise and act upon the need to differentiate skill types, differentiate between low-, medium-, and highly-skilled expatriate workers coming into Macau, and streamline massively the processing of the top end of the expatriate employment market. One size does not fit all. Streamlining, diversification, and tertiary industries must help each other, not be a three-legged race in which any movement forward is difficult.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | March 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s development of international and tertiary sector industries is the watchword for its long-overdue diversification. Is Macau ready for this?\n\n\n\nImagine that an entrepreneur wishes to open a substantial financial service business that builds on Macau\u2019s positioning between East and West. She advertises for a senior position with demanding applicant requirements: high-level knowledge, skills, and international leadership and management expertise and experience in areas such as international finance, banking, international commercial law, wealth management; and fluency in two world languages. She sends to the relevant Macau\u2019s government office her proposal to recruit a highly skilled expatriate applicant who fits the bill. The office\u2019s response is \u2018you need to prove that there is no local who can do this, and, anyway, it will take two or three months to process an expatriate\u2019. The employer searches and then replies: \u2018no local has been found\u2019, so, eventually, the government office\u2019s response is \u2018go ahead with the expatriate\u2019. \u2018Too late\u2019 says the employer, \u2018the applicant took up a position in Dubai\u2019. \n\n\n\nThis problem touches tertiary industries in Macau: business, commerce, education, health, IT, real estate, finance, personal services, and so on. For diversification to progress, the demand increases for highly skilled, internationally experienced, expatriate experts in Macau. Get the message: Macau does not have enough of them, and Macau\u2019s slow-motion procedures for permitting international expatriate experts to work in Macau frustrates attempts to recruit internationally.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith Macau\u2019s reliance on international, highly skilled, employees, it would be commonsense for the recruitment and entry of high-level expatriate experts to work in Macau to be a rapid, straightforward, no-nonsense matter. Well, think again.\n\n\n\nThe government\u2019s lack of streamlined procedures for recruiting international, expert, highly skilled, richly experienced workers from outside Macau, is counterintuitive. Processing by, and receiving clearance from, the government to employ non-local experts on a full-time, part-time, or short-term basis, can take months. Just when Macau has turned a corner in recovering from its ailing economy, such hobbling of the agility of employers and entrepreneurs to meet Macau\u2019s tertiary sector\u2019s need for international, top-level workers is the very opposite of what is required. The speed at which expatriate high-level workers in other parts of the world are welcomed and whose clearance is processed in hours and days, should make Macau blush.\n\n\n\nOther countries snap up top-level expatriate experts from across the world with astonishing alacrity; they know that they have to act fast, or they will lose them. Look at Dubai, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi, with some 88.5 per cent of expatriate workers, whose tertiary, finance, and service industries attract experts globally. International companies and organisations set up shop there, and the government processing of employment matters can be fast-tracked to corner the market. They welcome, not obstruct, expatriate experts. No wonder they flourish.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCompare this to Macau, whose employers are pressed to conduct a knowingly fruitless internal search for local people who have the required top-class knowledge and expertise, rich international experience, advanced training, high-level management expertise, and outstanding skills. Surprise, surprise; employers find none, by which time a potential expatriate expert applicant has found employment elsewhere. And what happens next? The Macau government office shrugs its shoulders, thinks \u2018ah well, that\u2019s life\u2019, and continues to pursue its existing course, and at a slow pace that would outclass a snail. Does the government office really think that employers have not done their initial homework on the local situation or do not know what they need? \n\n\n\nIf Macau is to turn its affection for tertiary diversification and development into real practice, benefiting Macau, then its government offices must recognise and act upon the need to differentiate skill types, differentiate between low-, medium-, and highly-skilled expatriate workers coming into Macau, and streamline massively the processing of the top end of the expatriate employment market. One size does not fit all. Streamlining, diversification, and tertiary industries must help each other, not be a three-legged race in which any movement forward is difficult.", "date_published": "March 26, 2023", "date_modified": "March 26, 2023 - 17:55", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/MSFT-W93plk.jpeg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Macau\u2019s development of international and tertiary sector industries is the watchword for its long-overdue diversification. 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\nMacau Business | February 2023
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nAs Macau strives to revive its post-pandemic economy and to reinject life into its ailing society, calls for investment in human capital resurface, alongside endless mantras of economic diversification which, for years, seem to have fallen on deaf ears, and together with plans for further infrastructure development and construction which have already turned Macau into a concrete jungle.
\n\n\n\nHere I focus on human capital (HC). Macau relishes HC for improving its society. Look how it trumpets talents, higher education uptake and achievements, university rankings, prizes and awards, lifelong learning, job training, degree holders (70 per cent of Macau\u2019s local population with a Bachelor\u2019s degree, and 15 per cent with a Master\u2019s degree, in the 2021 census).
\n\n\n\nBut wait a moment. As we know, economic recovery and societal development require much more than HC. Even the Macau government has recognised this. HC investment is necessary but markedly insufficient for Macau\u2019s present and future. Indeed, let us not put too much hope in HC as an undisputed path to economic salvation, individual gain, and societal development, as it doesn\u2019t seem to live up to its many claims.
\n\n\n\nIn their well-received book \u2018The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promises and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption\u2019, the authors, Brown, Lauder, and Cheung, show the limitations of HC, questioning the HC adage that ?learning equals earning?. HC theory, they aver, has taken insufficient account of the fact that ours is an age of job uncertainty, instability, and underemployment, too few decent jobs, increased job competition, rampant inequality and social injustice, grotesque wealth in the hands of the very few whilst others live in poverty, a too-limited agenda of promoting individualised \u2018talent\u2019, increasing psychological ill-health and stress, and continuing inequalities of opportunity for employment and improving life chances. This is Macau. HC theory adds to the twilight of the idols of wishful, unfulfilled, unfulfillable promises of a better life.
\n\n\n\nAs the pandemic made clear, \u2018getting on\u2019 in life is not as simple as investing in yourself; the maxim of \u2018get qualified and you get a good job\u2019 is suspect. Jobs and job opportunities shut down in front of our eyes; galloping credentialism sees over-qualified degree holders flipping burgers in fast food outlets or taking up low-income service jobs; overnight job termination reduces families to silent despair; investment in obtaining qualifications does not match subsequent earnings. HC\u2019s pathway to individual prosperity and the good life is illusory; \u2018real life\u2019 does not work that way. Higher education for all, as one avenue for HC investment, is nowadays more a liminal rite of passage than a passport to a decent job: an ironic paradox as higher education becomes more and more like job training. The exchange value of credentials recedes, leading to an inflationary credentialist spiral, a diploma disease in a society marked by too many people chasing too few, and too similar, narrow, decent jobs. Again, this is Macau. Macau\u2019s median monthly income is the same as in 2014, and disproportionate wealth is still in the hands of the few, with social unrest cooled out by (very welcome) annual handouts to all its citizens.
\n\n\n\n\u2018Investing in yourself\u2019 is seriously incomplete for society. At root is a false premise, a trick of the naive belief in a better, more just, meritocratic society as simply the outcome of merit (I.Q. plus effort) and trickle-down economics, holding the individual responsible for what happens at a societal level. Societal development is an essentially collective, inclusive task and responsibility, and not solely for personal benefit; it is not individualism writ large. Society is not simply an instrumental, buy-and-sell HC market; nor are economic recovery and societal development.
\n\n\n\nFor many years, Macau had been cushioned from economic downturn; many of its residents lived reasonably comfortable lives in this little bubble. But then came the pandemic, bringing job terminations in their thousands, together with a brain drain flight away from Macau occasioned by its questionable immigration labour policies and strategies adopted to cope with the pandemic. HC was outflanked by wider constraints which showed up, for all to see, many of the pre-pandemic ills of trusting HC theory and practice in society, identified above, significant amongst which was the mistaken view of people in society as solely or largely individualised, materialism-driven economic units (homo \u6e03onomicus), disposable when times get hard, and, like the Stoic Wise Man, being \u2018passionless, pitiless, perfect\u2019, with values, humanity and social justice relegated to epiphenomena.
\n\n\n\nHC investment leaves relatively untouched, indeed perpetuates, Macau\u2019s grossly unequal society, too few decent jobs, a massively under-diversified jobs market, years of neglect of job creation, a too narrow view of higher education as largely for job training and for creating commercialisable products, and silence on values debates. It is questionable just how far HC is, or can be, the prophylactic and solution to societal ills and the main key to Macau society\u2019s development. To pin so much onto HC is wanton negligence of alternatives and additional societal requirements. Macau\u2019s society needs far more than anything that HC can offer.
\n\n\n\nHuman capital theory is strangely silent on the purposes of living, on what kind of society and values people we really want and need, and on what is the \u2018good life\u2019. HC will not, and cannot, satisfy Macau society\u2019s needs; its society, education, economy, values, and people, need much more than this. Heed the warning of Brown, Lauder, and Cheung. Societal development moves beyond capital, be it social, individual or HC; it moves beyond materialism. Rather, it requires a concern for humanity, values, people, not just economic units, individual advancement, and materialism. Focusing so largely on market-driven capital development, for societal development, to which HC is a contributor, leads to multi-dimensional societal and humanitarian impoverishment. Thinking about individuals and society in human capital terms is fundamentally mean and misguided. Where are the human and social values debates in Macau\u2019s recovery and development, taking us beyond materialism, business, and economics, to a much wider view of \u2018worth\u2019 and \u2018worthwhileness\u2019? Human capital is found wanting here.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | February 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs Macau strives to revive its post-pandemic economy and to reinject life into its ailing society, calls for investment in human capital resurface, alongside endless mantras of economic diversification which, for years, seem to have fallen on deaf ears, and together with plans for further infrastructure development and construction which have already turned Macau into a concrete jungle. \n\n\n\nHere I focus on human capital (HC). Macau relishes HC for improving its society. Look how it trumpets talents, higher education uptake and achievements, university rankings, prizes and awards, lifelong learning, job training, degree holders (70 per cent of Macau\u2019s local population with a Bachelor\u2019s degree, and 15 per cent with a Master\u2019s degree, in the 2021 census). \n\n\n\nBut wait a moment. As we know, economic recovery and societal development require much more than HC. Even the Macau government has recognised this. HC investment is necessary but markedly insufficient for Macau\u2019s present and future. Indeed, let us not put too much hope in HC as an undisputed path to economic salvation, individual gain, and societal development, as it doesn\u2019t seem to live up to its many claims. \n\n\n\nIn their well-received book \u2018The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promises and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption\u2019, the authors, Brown, Lauder, and Cheung, show the limitations of HC, questioning the HC adage that ?learning equals earning?. HC theory, they aver, has taken insufficient account of the fact that ours is an age of job uncertainty, instability, and underemployment, too few decent jobs, increased job competition, rampant inequality and social injustice, grotesque wealth in the hands of the very few whilst others live in poverty, a too-limited agenda of promoting individualised \u2018talent\u2019, increasing psychological ill-health and stress, and continuing inequalities of opportunity for employment and improving life chances. This is Macau. HC theory adds to the twilight of the idols of wishful, unfulfilled, unfulfillable promises of a better life. \n\n\n\nAs the pandemic made clear, \u2018getting on\u2019 in life is not as simple as investing in yourself; the maxim of \u2018get qualified and you get a good job\u2019 is suspect. Jobs and job opportunities shut down in front of our eyes; galloping credentialism sees over-qualified degree holders flipping burgers in fast food outlets or taking up low-income service jobs; overnight job termination reduces families to silent despair; investment in obtaining qualifications does not match subsequent earnings. HC\u2019s pathway to individual prosperity and the good life is illusory; \u2018real life\u2019 does not work that way. Higher education for all, as one avenue for HC investment, is nowadays more a liminal rite of passage than a passport to a decent job: an ironic paradox as higher education becomes more and more like job training. The exchange value of credentials recedes, leading to an inflationary credentialist spiral, a diploma disease in a society marked by too many people chasing too few, and too similar, narrow, decent jobs. Again, this is Macau. Macau\u2019s median monthly income is the same as in 2014, and disproportionate wealth is still in the hands of the few, with social unrest cooled out by (very welcome) annual handouts to all its citizens.\n\n\n\n\u2018Investing in yourself\u2019 is seriously incomplete for society. At root is a false premise, a trick of the naive belief in a better, more just, meritocratic society as simply the outcome of merit (I.Q. plus effort) and trickle-down economics, holding the individual responsible for what happens at a societal level. Societal development is an essentially collective, inclusive task and responsibility, and not solely for personal benefit; it is not individualism writ large. Society is not simply an instrumental, buy-and-sell HC market; nor are economic recovery and societal development.\n\n\n\nFor many years, Macau had been cushioned from economic downturn; many of its residents lived reasonably comfortable lives in this little bubble. But then came the pandemic, bringing job terminations in their thousands, together with a brain drain flight away from Macau occasioned by its questionable immigration labour policies and strategies adopted to cope with the pandemic. HC was outflanked by wider constraints which showed up, for all to see, many of the pre-pandemic ills of trusting HC theory and practice in society, identified above, significant amongst which was the mistaken view of people in society as solely or largely individualised, materialism-driven economic units (homo \u6e03onomicus), disposable when times get hard, and, like the Stoic Wise Man, being \u2018passionless, pitiless, perfect\u2019, with values, humanity and social justice relegated to epiphenomena. \n\n\n\nHC investment leaves relatively untouched, indeed perpetuates, Macau\u2019s grossly unequal society, too few decent jobs, a massively under-diversified jobs market, years of neglect of job creation, a too narrow view of higher education as largely for job training and for creating commercialisable products, and silence on values debates. It is questionable just how far HC is, or can be, the prophylactic and solution to societal ills and the main key to Macau society\u2019s development. To pin so much onto HC is wanton negligence of alternatives and additional societal requirements. Macau\u2019s society needs far more than anything that HC can offer. \n\n\n\nHuman capital theory is strangely silent on the purposes of living, on what kind of society and values people we really want and need, and on what is the \u2018good life\u2019. HC will not, and cannot, satisfy Macau society\u2019s needs; its society, education, economy, values, and people, need much more than this. Heed the warning of Brown, Lauder, and Cheung. Societal development moves beyond capital, be it social, individual or HC; it moves beyond materialism. Rather, it requires a concern for humanity, values, people, not just economic units, individual advancement, and materialism. Focusing so largely on market-driven capital development, for societal development, to which HC is a contributor, leads to multi-dimensional societal and humanitarian impoverishment. Thinking about individuals and society in human capital terms is fundamentally mean and misguided. Where are the human and social values debates in Macau\u2019s recovery and development, taking us beyond materialism, business, and economics, to a much wider view of \u2018worth\u2019 and \u2018worthwhileness\u2019? Human capital is found wanting here.", "date_published": "March 02, 2023", "date_modified": "March 03, 2023 - 01:55", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_8941.jpeg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "As Macau strives to revive its post-pandemic economy and to reinject life into its ailing society, calls for investment in human capital resurface, alongside endless mantras of economic diversification which, for years, seem to have fallen on deaf ears, and together with plans for further infrastructure development and construction which have already turned Macau into a concrete jungle. 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\nMacau Business | January 2023
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nDespite the welcome optimism expressed at the government\u2019s plans to resurrect Macau\u2019s economy, its economic recovery will continue to suffer from having had the rug pulled from under its feet by the zero-Covid policy, however well intentioned. It is good to see that, at last, reason has prevailed, and, long overdue, this policy is changing. The idea that Macau could really recover whilst continuing to operate this policy was fanciful optimism; it didn\u2019t work. Macau\u2019s Covid risk prevention strategy was excellent at first, with first-class, infinitesimal virus-related mortality figures. However, it quickly became manifestly clear that the zero-Covid policy was past its shelf life, yet it continued; why? Had there been an early government risk analysis of its zero-Covid policy, and is there one now for changing it? Where is the evidence?
\n\n\n\nThe risks of the zero-Covid policy were patently obvious from day one: Macau\u2019s economic meltdown, societal unrest, and citizens\u2019 loss of wellbeing, mental health, and income. Risks from abandoning the zero-Covid policy were clear: the spread of the virus (which it did anyway, with or without the policy) and risk to the Macau government\u2019s standing. Continuing or abandoning the zero-Covid policy brought risks, the lesser of which was the latter. The benefits of abandoning it far outweighed its retention, and this was eminently clear early in the pandemic.
\n\n\n\nThe recent sudden changes to handling the Covid situation call into question what had been \u2013 and continue to be \u2013 done in Macau to assess, and respond to, the risks on an ongoing basis. On what real basis was it decided to relax some of the previous Covid arrangements? What had changed concerning Macau\u2019s:
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CKK_4427-1028x685.jpg\")
What had suddenly changed to alter Macau\u2019s zero-Covid policy, and why did it take so long to react to its obvious economic suicide and self-harm on a macroscopic scale? Anyone could tell that the zero-Covid policy and the territory\u2019s economic and social recovery were uncomfortable bedfellows; they just don\u2019t go together, so why did Macau pursue it for so long, when it obviously so deleterious and unnecessary?
\n\n\n\nWith changes to the Covid policy, Macau citizens still don\u2019t know how secure their jobs are, or even if they can get one. They struggle to understand how thousands of people could be shoulder-to-shoulder at a food festival and other crowd events, whilst, at the same time, the hint of a single virus case had shut down parts of Macau. They question why some incomers were exempted from quarantine whilst others were locked up and treated like miscreants. In other parts of the world, locking up people without their real consent, when they have done nothing wrong, and justifying this in terms of a questionable public or social good, calls human rights into question.
\n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s risk analysis, evaluation, and treatment of the Covid virus were well intentioned but faulty. The steps taken by Macau\u2019s decision makers to mitigate the risk were beyond reason, overstating its magnitude, seriousness, criticality, and its putative impact beyond what was sensible or tolerable. Why did Macau take longer than the rest of the world to accept that the virus, like the flu, cannot be eliminated? Macau overplayed its well-meant steps to control the risk and to protect those at potential risk. No wonder Macau\u2019s economy still lies in shreds and its people still suffer stress and impoverishment.
\n\n\n\nThe zero-Covid policy needlessly and avoidably travestied the social good. Thank heaven it has changed. Despite media reports that the sudden changes were rooted in science rather than other factors, where is the scientific evidence, or, indeed any evidence, that this was the case, and why could changes not have started sooner on a gradual basis, as elsewhere in the world? Bring on the evidence. Bring on transparency.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | January 2023\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDespite the welcome optimism expressed at the government\u2019s plans to resurrect Macau\u2019s economy, its economic recovery will continue to suffer from having had the rug pulled from under its feet by the zero-Covid policy, however well intentioned. It is good to see that, at last, reason has prevailed, and, long overdue, this policy is changing. The idea that Macau could really recover whilst continuing to operate this policy was fanciful optimism; it didn\u2019t work. Macau\u2019s Covid risk prevention strategy was excellent at first, with first-class, infinitesimal virus-related mortality figures. However, it quickly became manifestly clear that the zero-Covid policy was past its shelf life, yet it continued; why? Had there been an early government risk analysis of its zero-Covid policy, and is there one now for changing it? Where is the evidence?\n\n\n\nThe risks of the zero-Covid policy were patently obvious from day one: Macau\u2019s economic meltdown, societal unrest, and citizens\u2019 loss of wellbeing, mental health, and income. Risks from abandoning the zero-Covid policy were clear: the spread of the virus (which it did anyway, with or without the policy) and risk to the Macau government\u2019s standing. Continuing or abandoning the zero-Covid policy brought risks, the lesser of which was the latter. The benefits of abandoning it far outweighed its retention, and this was eminently clear early in the pandemic.\n\n\n\nThe recent sudden changes to handling the Covid situation call into question what had been \u2013 and continue to be \u2013 done in Macau to assess, and respond to, the risks on an ongoing basis. On what real basis was it decided to relax some of the previous Covid arrangements? What had changed concerning Macau\u2019s:\n\n\n\nrisk identification (type, sources, causes, contents, and consequences)? risk analysis (its likelihood, impact, magnitude, volatility, severity, criticality, seriousness, sensitivity, scope, complexity, level, duration, effectiveness of preventions)?risk evaluation (judging tolerability/acceptability of level of risk; potential benefits of taking the risk)? risk treatment (options; management plan and decision; actions (e.g. accept it, avoid it, take steps to control, mitigate or change it, or to share it; take steps to protect those at risk; effects of the plan on remaining risks)?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat had suddenly changed to alter Macau\u2019s zero-Covid policy, and why did it take so long to react to its obvious economic suicide and self-harm on a macroscopic scale? Anyone could tell that the zero-Covid policy and the territory\u2019s economic and social recovery were uncomfortable bedfellows; they just don\u2019t go together, so why did Macau pursue it for so long, when it obviously so deleterious and unnecessary? \n\n\n\nWith changes to the Covid policy, Macau citizens still don\u2019t know how secure their jobs are, or even if they can get one. They struggle to understand how thousands of people could be shoulder-to-shoulder at a food festival and other crowd events, whilst, at the same time, the hint of a single virus case had shut down parts of Macau. They question why some incomers were exempted from quarantine whilst others were locked up and treated like miscreants. In other parts of the world, locking up people without their real consent, when they have done nothing wrong, and justifying this in terms of a questionable public or social good, calls human rights into question. \n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s risk analysis, evaluation, and treatment of the Covid virus were well intentioned but faulty. The steps taken by Macau\u2019s decision makers to mitigate the risk were beyond reason, overstating its magnitude, seriousness, criticality, and its putative impact beyond what was sensible or tolerable. Why did Macau take longer than the rest of the world to accept that the virus, like the flu, cannot be eliminated? Macau overplayed its well-meant steps to control the risk and to protect those at potential risk. No wonder Macau\u2019s economy still lies in shreds and its people still suffer stress and impoverishment. \n\n\n\nThe zero-Covid policy needlessly and avoidably travestied the social good. Thank heaven it has changed. Despite media reports that the sudden changes were rooted in science rather than other factors, where is the scientific evidence, or, indeed any evidence, that this was the case, and why could changes not have started sooner on a gradual basis, as elsewhere in the world? Bring on the evidence. Bring on transparency.", "date_published": "January 23, 2023", "date_modified": "January 25, 2023 - 23:24", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CKK_5415.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Despite the welcome optimism expressed at the government\u2019s plans to resurrect Macau\u2019s economy, its economic recovery will continue to suffer from having had the rug pulled from under its feet by the zero-Covid policy, however well intentioned. 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\nMacau Business | December 2022
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nWhen the casino resorts applied for the first licenses to operate in Macau, one of the commitments that they made was to serve the Macau society. Many of them have honoured those commitments outstandingly well, and continue to do so, and in ways too many and diverse to list here.
\n\n\n\nServing Macau society means not only giving it what it wants but what it needs in order to sustain and renew itself. This is not only an economic matter of promoting business, jobs, money, training, and so on. Rather, it is about the whole person, engaging, developing, and nurturing a profound humanity, inner creativity, the living of a deeply authentic and passionate life, with recognition and respect for individualism. This is essential in a society such as Macau, which is in grip of materialism, slogans, superficiality, trivial entertainment, bureaucracy, routine living, control mentalities and behaviours, and restrictive, unyielding conformity that creates passive, obedient, compliant robots, and destroys people\u2019s creative, reflective, inner spirit from an early age. For real, sustainable development, Macau needs the disruptive thinking and practices that real creativity brings.
\n\n\n\nHow, then, can the casino resorts serve society in catalysing the development of the deep humanity, creativity, individual existential authenticity that Macau so urgently needs, and which leaves materialism paling into insignificance?
\n\n\n\nOne of the most striking and outstanding examples of such service in Macau is not the megaphone trumpeting of kitsch, glitz, and would-be glamour throughout Macau. No, it is much more subtle and penetrating than this, an example of which is currently provided by the Galaxy Entertainment Group Foundation. Tucked away in an upstairs, calm corner of one of its shopping malls is the carefully arranged and poignant \u20185 a.m. oil painting exhibition\u2019 of the work of the local artist Leo Yuen Wai Ip, which runs to February 2023 (see https://www.gegfoundation.org.mo/exhibitions/5am). You will have to visit it to understand its title!
\n\n\n\nGo there. This exhibition is stunning, and it is like a break of fresh, clean air in Macau; it is the best thing for years in Macau. It grabs you and keeps you fixated on the paintings. It stops you in your tracks with its thoughtfulness, depth, and beauty. It draws you in, deeper and deeper into the artist\u2019s world, and makes you to look at yourself afresh in redeeming your innermost thoughts. The paintings are rooted in several dimensions of Macau, painted over many years of the artist\u2019s life and testifying to his own changes and the experiences which have shaped his life. They are deeply personal yet catch universal values, emotions, behaviours, challenges, and experiences, in the particular and the personal. These universals take form in individual paintings (e.g. \u2018Ceremonial Fire\u2019, depicting a world in which peace prevails) and in sets of pictures on a particular theme (e.g. \u2018The Four Gentlemen\u2019 in Chinese culture), all of which are rich in symbolism and imagery.
\n\n\n\nOn the visits that I made to the exhibition, we were taken round the exhibits, painting by painting, by the organiser Florence Lam and, indeed, by the artist himself, Leo Yuen Wai Ip, who talked with us, explaining evocatively and movingly the many points about each painting. Leo is a very rare, sincere, wonderful man, and I was overcome with his honesty and modesty; this touched me the most, and are caught so disturbingly well in his paintings. For the first time in years, here on display were purity, sincerity, genuine creativity, humanity, and brilliance, heart and soul. I was touched beyond words. It took me back to when I visited the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam; such exhibitions change people for ever. They put into the shade all matters of materialism, superficiality, bureaucracy, unthinking routine, the thirst for power and control, the press for stability, conformity, passive obedience, and compliance. They make life worth living, if you are prepared to think about it deeply, and often in solitude. As the poet Pasternak put it: \u2018I am alone; all round me drowns in falsehood. Life is not a walk across a field\u2019.
\n\n\n\nNow this is what we need in Macau, going far beyond the humdrum and fleeting, superficial materialism. Sustainability needs humanity, inner creativity, living an authentic, sincere, meaningful, and passionate life. These matter. Visit the exhibition; reflect on it, on yourself. It is a Christmas present of a lifetime.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | December 2022\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen the casino resorts applied for the first licenses to operate in Macau, one of the commitments that they made was to serve the Macau society. Many of them have honoured those commitments outstandingly well, and continue to do so, and in ways too many and diverse to list here. \n\n\n\nServing Macau society means not only giving it what it wants but what it needs in order to sustain and renew itself. This is not only an economic matter of promoting business, jobs, money, training, and so on. Rather, it is about the whole person, engaging, developing, and nurturing a profound humanity, inner creativity, the living of a deeply authentic and passionate life, with recognition and respect for individualism. This is essential in a society such as Macau, which is in grip of materialism, slogans, superficiality, trivial entertainment, bureaucracy, routine living, control mentalities and behaviours, and restrictive, unyielding conformity that creates passive, obedient, compliant robots, and destroys people\u2019s creative, reflective, inner spirit from an early age. For real, sustainable development, Macau needs the disruptive thinking and practices that real creativity brings.\n\n\n\nHow, then, can the casino resorts serve society in catalysing the development of the deep humanity, creativity, individual existential authenticity that Macau so urgently needs, and which leaves materialism paling into insignificance? \n\n\n\nOne of the most striking and outstanding examples of such service in Macau is not the megaphone trumpeting of kitsch, glitz, and would-be glamour throughout Macau. No, it is much more subtle and penetrating than this, an example of which is currently provided by the Galaxy Entertainment Group Foundation. Tucked away in an upstairs, calm corner of one of its shopping malls is the carefully arranged and poignant \u20185 a.m. oil painting exhibition\u2019 of the work of the local artist Leo Yuen Wai Ip, which runs to February 2023 (see https://www.gegfoundation.org.mo/exhibitions/5am). You will have to visit it to understand its title!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGo there. This exhibition is stunning, and it is like a break of fresh, clean air in Macau; it is the best thing for years in Macau. It grabs you and keeps you fixated on the paintings. It stops you in your tracks with its thoughtfulness, depth, and beauty. It draws you in, deeper and deeper into the artist\u2019s world, and makes you to look at yourself afresh in redeeming your innermost thoughts. The paintings are rooted in several dimensions of Macau, painted over many years of the artist\u2019s life and testifying to his own changes and the experiences which have shaped his life. They are deeply personal yet catch universal values, emotions, behaviours, challenges, and experiences, in the particular and the personal. These universals take form in individual paintings (e.g. \u2018Ceremonial Fire\u2019, depicting a world in which peace prevails) and in sets of pictures on a particular theme (e.g. \u2018The Four Gentlemen\u2019 in Chinese culture), all of which are rich in symbolism and imagery.\n\n\n\nOn the visits that I made to the exhibition, we were taken round the exhibits, painting by painting, by the organiser Florence Lam and, indeed, by the artist himself, Leo Yuen Wai Ip, who talked with us, explaining evocatively and movingly the many points about each painting. Leo is a very rare, sincere, wonderful man, and I was overcome with his honesty and modesty; this touched me the most, and are caught so disturbingly well in his paintings. For the first time in years, here on display were purity, sincerity, genuine creativity, humanity, and brilliance, heart and soul. I was touched beyond words. It took me back to when I visited the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam; such exhibitions change people for ever. They put into the shade all matters of materialism, superficiality, bureaucracy, unthinking routine, the thirst for power and control, the press for stability, conformity, passive obedience, and compliance. They make life worth living, if you are prepared to think about it deeply, and often in solitude. As the poet Pasternak put it: \u2018I am alone; all round me drowns in falsehood. Life is not a walk across a field\u2019.\n\n\n\nNow this is what we need in Macau, going far beyond the humdrum and fleeting, superficial materialism. Sustainability needs humanity, inner creativity, living an authentic, sincere, meaningful, and passionate life. These matter. Visit the exhibition; reflect on it, on yourself. It is a Christmas present of a lifetime.", "date_published": "December 24, 2022", "date_modified": "December 24, 2022 - 18:38", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2017/12/natal.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "When the casino resorts applied for the first licenses to operate in Macau, one of the commitments that they made was to serve the Macau society. Many of them have honoured those commitments outstandingly well, and continue to do so, and in ways too many and diverse to list here. " }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-sustainable-development-or-survival-of-macau/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-sustainable-development-or-survival-of-macau/", "title": "OPINION \u2013 Sustainable development or survival of Macau?", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/carina-cheng-BkXKPT0w9cQ-unsplash-150x150.jpeg\")
\nMacau Business | November 2022
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nIn June of this year, a publication entitled \u2018Macau\u2019s sustainability and diversification\u2019 noted that Macau\u2019s \u2018economic volatility caused by an unbalanced industrial structure restricts the diversified development of society. Economic diversification is the only way for Macau to achieve sustainable development\u2019. Nothing new there, and, anyway, such a singular view is unconvincing. What about other aspects of society? Diversity is not singular, and it requires inclusion.
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For its authors, Macau\u2019s \u2018sustainable urban development\u2019 appears to supervene on being \u2018pluralistic\u2019, requiring \u2018coordination of the relationship between economic development and population, resources and environment\u2019, requiring attention to the \u2018sustainable development\u2019 outlined by the United Nations.
\n\n\n\nFor several years, Macau has been taking steps to address the United Nations General Assembly\u2019s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is doing this in the face of current, serious setbacks, almost existential challenges, whilst recognising its need to metamorphose itself in an increasingly telescoped time scale.
\n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s situation is fragile, with the global economic downturn, the pandemic and Macau\u2019s zero tolerance policy, the plummeting of its GDP, the doubling of the local population\u2019s unemployment rate (see the graphs), together with the 27 per cent fall in its population since the start of 2020 (DSEC data), as people flee Macau, thereby narrowing its diversity. Counting the cost raises questions of how Macau plans to rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes of the last three years. Macau is not alone here; the challenges are world-wide. Indeed, Macau is taking action to handle them, e.g. in creating partnerships, seeking to diversify its economy, developing Hengqin island, encouraging talents, and furthering links with mainland China.
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Source: DSEC
\n\n\n\nHowever, the rallying cry of the SDGs risks evaporating, with the erosion of many of these already taking place in Macau, e.g.: no poverty (Goal 1); health and well-being (Goal 3); decent work and economic growth (Goal 8); industry, innovation, and infrastructure (Goal 9); reduced inequality (Goal 10); sustainable cities and communities (Goal 11); responsible consumption and production (Goal 12). Failure to address each of these is terrible, as they are intertwined and mutually potentiating; if one goes, another goes. It is a grim, dystopic scenario.
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Source: DSEC
\n\n\n\nAnd who suffers? The casualties of Macau\u2019s downturn are its poor and unemployed. They are hit harder than the rich and the employed, who can ride it, even if with some discomfort. This raises issues of equality and social justice.
\n\n\n\nIn addressing inequality (Goal 10), a shift of emphasis is needed, to move beyond simply redistribution and subsidies. Echoing the social philosopher Axel Honneth, it involves recognition of, respect for, and voice and empowerment of, all groups in Macau, not only the wealthy, powerful, and those at the top of the social tree. Rather, it includes the have-nots, the poor, the unemployed, those without power, and those who sit on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder. Even if they voice out, it is unclear who listens to them and really acts fruitfully for them.
\n\n\n\nBut recognition, respect, voice, and empowerment are only starting points; inclusion requires action, not simply these fine words. Macau needs more concrete interventions to promote equality and social justice: economic, social, cultural, socio-economic, together with heeding the voices, inclusion, empowerment, and protections of all groups. If we want Macau to move beyond survival to sustainable development, we have to take the poor and the unemployed with us, not left behind on handouts. Diversity requires inclusive action.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | November 2022\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn June of this year, a publication entitled \u2018Macau\u2019s sustainability and diversification\u2019 noted that Macau\u2019s \u2018economic volatility caused by an unbalanced industrial structure restricts the diversified development of society. Economic diversification is the only way for Macau to achieve sustainable development\u2019. Nothing new there, and, anyway, such a singular view is unconvincing. What about other aspects of society? Diversity is not singular, and it requires inclusion.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor its authors, Macau\u2019s \u2018sustainable urban development\u2019 appears to supervene on being \u2018pluralistic\u2019, requiring \u2018coordination of the relationship between economic development and population, resources and environment\u2019, requiring attention to the \u2018sustainable development\u2019 outlined by the United Nations. \n\n\n\nFor several years, Macau has been taking steps to address the United Nations General Assembly\u2019s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is doing this in the face of current, serious setbacks, almost existential challenges, whilst recognising its need to metamorphose itself in an increasingly telescoped time scale.\n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s situation is fragile, with the global economic downturn, the pandemic and Macau\u2019s zero tolerance policy, the plummeting of its GDP, the doubling of the local population\u2019s unemployment rate (see the graphs), together with the 27 per cent fall in its population since the start of 2020 (DSEC data), as people flee Macau, thereby narrowing its diversity. Counting the cost raises questions of how Macau plans to rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes of the last three years. Macau is not alone here; the challenges are world-wide. Indeed, Macau is taking action to handle them, e.g. in creating partnerships, seeking to diversify its economy, developing Hengqin island, encouraging talents, and furthering links with mainland China.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource: DSEC\n\n\n\nHowever, the rallying cry of the SDGs risks evaporating, with the erosion of many of these already taking place in Macau, e.g.: no poverty (Goal 1); health and well-being (Goal 3); decent work and economic growth (Goal 8); industry, innovation, and infrastructure (Goal 9); reduced inequality (Goal 10); sustainable cities and communities (Goal 11); responsible consumption and production (Goal 12). Failure to address each of these is terrible, as they are intertwined and mutually potentiating; if one goes, another goes. It is a grim, dystopic scenario.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource: DSEC\n\n\n\nAnd who suffers? The casualties of Macau\u2019s downturn are its poor and unemployed. They are hit harder than the rich and the employed, who can ride it, even if with some discomfort. This raises issues of equality and social justice. \n\n\n\nIn addressing inequality (Goal 10), a shift of emphasis is needed, to move beyond simply redistribution and subsidies. Echoing the social philosopher Axel Honneth, it involves recognition of, respect for, and voice and empowerment of, all groups in Macau, not only the wealthy, powerful, and those at the top of the social tree. Rather, it includes the have-nots, the poor, the unemployed, those without power, and those who sit on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder. Even if they voice out, it is unclear who listens to them and really acts fruitfully for them. \n\n\n\nBut recognition, respect, voice, and empowerment are only starting points; inclusion requires action, not simply these fine words. Macau needs more concrete interventions to promote equality and social justice: economic, social, cultural, socio-economic, together with heeding the voices, inclusion, empowerment, and protections of all groups. If we want Macau to move beyond survival to sustainable development, we have to take the poor and the unemployed with us, not left behind on handouts. Diversity requires inclusive action.", "date_published": "December 04, 2022", "date_modified": "December 05, 2022 - 03:25", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/carina-cheng-BkXKPT0w9cQ-unsplash.jpeg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "In June of this year, a publication entitled \u2018Macau\u2019s sustainability and diversification\u2019 noted that Macau\u2019s \u2018economic volatility caused by an unbalanced industrial structure restricts the diversified development of society. Economic diversification is the only way for Macau to achieve sustainable development\u2019. Nothing new there, and, anyway, such a singular view is unconvincing. What about other aspects of society? 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\nMacau Business | October 2022
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nThe late psychologist, business and management consultant Edward de Bono gained a worldwide reputation for \u2018lateral thinking\u2019, which included his \u2018six thinking hats\u2019 and \u2018tools for thinking\u2019. Though his work is arguably only plausible pseudoscience, his \u2018tools for thinking\u2019 remain interesting. Consider some of these from his Cognitive Research Trust (CoRT), in approaching planning, e.g.: CAF (Consider All Factors); EBS (Examine Both Sides); and OPV (consider Other People\u2019s Views). Here I apply them to Macau.
\n\n\n\nIn August, the Macau government approved the first reading of its well-intentioned bill for attracting \u2018talents\u2019 to Macau to work, set up new businesses, train locals, and so on. In the spirit of considering Other People\u2019s Views (OPV), for me, the bill\u2019s discussion could benefit from a dose of CAF, EBS, and OPV.
\n\n\n\nThe fond imagination in the bill, that \u2018elites\u2019, \u2018qualified professionals\u2019, and \u2018skilled professionals\u2019, would countenance returning to Macau under present conditions, is a masterpiece of fancy; a fiction. Macau\u2019s economy is languishing in its largely self-inflicted meltdown, with businesses leaving Macau to relocate elsewhere in South-east Asia, and an environment of pestilence in many senses.
\n\n\n\nThe unbridled optimism of the bill\u2019s discussion, in thinking that those graduating from the world\u2019s top 100 universities would consider, for a moment, returning to Macau, is a dream-world. And take, for example, the reported words of one of Macau\u2019s Talents Development Committee (SCDT), who indicated that a list will be created of international accolades and awards which would render such holders eligible to be considered as \u2018elites\u2019 in returning to Macau. Would you, as such an award winner, seriously consider coming to Macau to work in an environment of job insecurity, e.g. being fired at two weeks\u2019 notice, regardless of what your contract states? Macau\u2019s SCDT appears to be preoccupied with classifying types of talent whilst missing the big picture (de Bono\u2019s CAF) of considering why anyone would or would not want to come to live and work in Macau, when people are leaving in their thousands.
\n\n\n\nWould \u2018talents\u2019 be prepared to go through Macau\u2019s psychologically damaging quarantine, when most of the world moved on from this ages ago? Would they be prepared to have a double-figure set of compulsory nucleic acid tests in their first two weeks of arrival? No wonder Macau\u2019s passenger airport is almost as silent as a graveyard.
\n\n\n\nIf the intention is to attract \u2018talents\u2019, then why make it so wretched for them to come to Macau and to stay? In CAF (Consider All Factors), pay attention to the fact that some of those coming to Macau would bring families. How is it, then, that, currently, entire families are quitting Macau in droves, or individuals are leaving their families behind in their home country, as they consider Macau to be an unsuitable place for children and where the quality of life is awful? Added to these are individuals who have had enough of the nonsense in Macau, and who pack up and go, or who are fired peremptorily.
\n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s idiosyncratic, introverted culture is pernicious; it applies Peter Drucker\u2019s often-quoted comment to a macro level: \u2018culture eats strategy for breakfast\u2019. And as social science tells us, context, culture, and environment matter, and these are a problem in Macau. Macau is a little bubble that is unlike the wider world outside; for its youth, it prepares them to survive in Macau, but not beyond. For families, it offers far less than one would find elsewhere, where countryside, open skies, clean air, silence, darkness, flowers, grass, trees, fields, mountains, lakes, rivers, open spaces, and living in a tolerable climate with no need for air-conditioning and dehumidifiers, are all ever-present givens, together with freedom from the trio of closed thinking, endless bureaucracy, and job insecurity. Why would anyone consider coming?
\n\n\n\nExamine Both Sides (EBS) and Consider All Factors (CAF): if Macau is serious about attracting and retaining talents, then it is not simply a matter of proposing possible \u2013 but currently fragile \u2013 employment for a \u2018talent\u2019; it is about providing an environment, culture, and context that are attractive to an entire family and based on freedom rather than control, obedience, compliance, and bureaucracy.
\n\n\n\nThis is not simply being negative; I speak for those who have mentioned all these factors to me in Macau. When one has lived abroad, one can see the huge differences between Macau and the outside world. Macau stultifies, and there are currently few signs of this changing; it\u2019s in its DNA.
\n\n\n\nWhen the new \u2018talents\u2019 bill was being discussed, Macau\u2019s Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture was reported as saying that if Macau could create a better environment and conditions, then \u2018local talents who are abroad will surely be interested in returning to Macau\u2019. Is this possible? Will they? Will they really?
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | October 2022\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe late psychologist, business and management consultant Edward de Bono gained a worldwide reputation for \u2018lateral thinking\u2019, which included his \u2018six thinking hats\u2019 and \u2018tools for thinking\u2019. Though his work is arguably only plausible pseudoscience, his \u2018tools for thinking\u2019 remain interesting. Consider some of these from his Cognitive Research Trust (CoRT), in approaching planning, e.g.: CAF (Consider All Factors); EBS (Examine Both Sides); and OPV (consider Other People\u2019s Views). Here I apply them to Macau.\n\n\n\nIn August, the Macau government approved the first reading of its well-intentioned bill for attracting \u2018talents\u2019 to Macau to work, set up new businesses, train locals, and so on. In the spirit of considering Other People\u2019s Views (OPV), for me, the bill\u2019s discussion could benefit from a dose of CAF, EBS, and OPV. \n\n\n\nThe fond imagination in the bill, that \u2018elites\u2019, \u2018qualified professionals\u2019, and \u2018skilled professionals\u2019, would countenance returning to Macau under present conditions, is a masterpiece of fancy; a fiction. Macau\u2019s economy is languishing in its largely self-inflicted meltdown, with businesses leaving Macau to relocate elsewhere in South-east Asia, and an environment of pestilence in many senses.\n\n\n\nThe unbridled optimism of the bill\u2019s discussion, in thinking that those graduating from the world\u2019s top 100 universities would consider, for a moment, returning to Macau, is a dream-world. And take, for example, the reported words of one of Macau\u2019s Talents Development Committee (SCDT), who indicated that a list will be created of international accolades and awards which would render such holders eligible to be considered as \u2018elites\u2019 in returning to Macau. Would you, as such an award winner, seriously consider coming to Macau to work in an environment of job insecurity, e.g. being fired at two weeks\u2019 notice, regardless of what your contract states? Macau\u2019s SCDT appears to be preoccupied with classifying types of talent whilst missing the big picture (de Bono\u2019s CAF) of considering why anyone would or would not want to come to live and work in Macau, when people are leaving in their thousands. \n\n\n\nWould \u2018talents\u2019 be prepared to go through Macau\u2019s psychologically damaging quarantine, when most of the world moved on from this ages ago? Would they be prepared to have a double-figure set of compulsory nucleic acid tests in their first two weeks of arrival? No wonder Macau\u2019s passenger airport is almost as silent as a graveyard.\n\n\n\nLanterns are seen in front of the Ruins of St. Paul’s in Macao, south China on Sept. 3, 2022. (Xinhua/Cheong Kam Ka)\n\n\n\nIf the intention is to attract \u2018talents\u2019, then why make it so wretched for them to come to Macau and to stay? In CAF (Consider All Factors), pay attention to the fact that some of those coming to Macau would bring families. How is it, then, that, currently, entire families are quitting Macau in droves, or individuals are leaving their families behind in their home country, as they consider Macau to be an unsuitable place for children and where the quality of life is awful? Added to these are individuals who have had enough of the nonsense in Macau, and who pack up and go, or who are fired peremptorily.\n\n\n\nMacau\u2019s idiosyncratic, introverted culture is pernicious; it applies Peter Drucker\u2019s often-quoted comment to a macro level: \u2018culture eats strategy for breakfast\u2019. And as social science tells us, context, culture, and environment matter, and these are a problem in Macau. Macau is a little bubble that is unlike the wider world outside; for its youth, it prepares them to survive in Macau, but not beyond. For families, it offers far less than one would find elsewhere, where countryside, open skies, clean air, silence, darkness, flowers, grass, trees, fields, mountains, lakes, rivers, open spaces, and living in a tolerable climate with no need for air-conditioning and dehumidifiers, are all ever-present givens, together with freedom from the trio of closed thinking, endless bureaucracy, and job insecurity. Why would anyone consider coming? \n\n\n\nExamine Both Sides (EBS) and Consider All Factors (CAF): if Macau is serious about attracting and retaining talents, then it is not simply a matter of proposing possible \u2013 but currently fragile \u2013 employment for a \u2018talent\u2019; it is about providing an environment, culture, and context that are attractive to an entire family and based on freedom rather than control, obedience, compliance, and bureaucracy. \n\n\n\nThis is not simply being negative; I speak for those who have mentioned all these factors to me in Macau. When one has lived abroad, one can see the huge differences between Macau and the outside world. Macau stultifies, and there are currently few signs of this changing; it\u2019s in its DNA. \n\n\n\nWhen the new \u2018talents\u2019 bill was being discussed, Macau\u2019s Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture was reported as saying that if Macau could create a better environment and conditions, then \u2018local talents who are abroad will surely be interested in returning to Macau\u2019. Is this possible? Will they? Will they really?", "date_published": "October 15, 2022", "date_modified": "October 13, 2022 - 20:34", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://mbusiness.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/2020/05/Macau-streets.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "The late psychologist, business and management consultant Edward de Bono gained a worldwide reputation for \u2018lateral thinking\u2019, which included his \u2018six thinking hats\u2019 and \u2018tools for thinking\u2019. Though his work is arguably only plausible pseudoscience, his \u2018tools for thinking\u2019 remain interesting. Consider some of these from his Cognitive Research Trust (CoRT), in approaching planning, e.g.: CAF (Consider All Factors); EBS (Examine Both Sides); and OPV (consider Other People\u2019s Views). Here I apply them to Macau." }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-getting-the-agenda-right-for-higher-education-in-macau/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-getting-the-agenda-right-for-higher-education-in-macau/", "title": "OPINION: Getting the agenda right for higher education in Macau", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-13-at-5.25.18-PM-1-150x150.jpeg\")
\nMacau Business | September 2022
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nHere we are, at the start of a new academic year in Macau\u2019s higher education (HE). What will students learn? What kind of people are the institutions turning out? For example, look at the thousands of students studying business and technology in Macau, the big recruiters in HE.
\n\n\n\nTake this article from a business journal. Here, MBA students adopted an uncritical acceptance of solely a market, profit-driven mentality. There was a culture of getting the degree and a job, rather than society-oriented, whole-person development. The students and their teachers ignored local and social needs, and only valued self-interested conformity to the neoliberal credo and to being entrepreneurial, self-interested, competition-thirsty individuals in a dog-eat-dog market. High-paying jobs, the creation of saleable graduates, global mobility, and marketability were emphasised. Students who did not conform to this view were marginalised, labelled as abnormal, and faced fines and exclusion. Neoliberal beliefs defined what was normal and abnormal. The class-stratified society and socio-economic inequities were reinforced and perpetuated. What were the students learning? Well, many things: self-interest, greed, acquisitiveness, materialism, and exploitation; HE for utility, economic purposes, and employment; the promotion of consumerism, marketisation, and the commodification of everything; the benefits of competition in a privatised market economy of public goods; personal investment in individualism and knowledge capital; people\u2019s value as measured in individual performance, with esteem measured by salary. People became economic units; things, not people.
\n\n\n\nOr take information technology. A recent analysis of e-technology for learning, found that, of 27 of its putative claimed benefits and 30 claimed dangers, almost all of them concerned the individual. There was almost total silence on technology for society, community, social justice, values, ethics, equality, and societal and community issues and development.
\n\n\n\nWhat do we see here? Business courses and information technology courses were almost silent on what kind of society, values, ethics, morals and people we should have, what matters in humans and societies. There was almost no mention of social service, community solidarity, a humanity-oriented society, key values for society, social systems, ethics, morals, and what kind of humans we want and need.
\n\n\n\nWe live in a time when the social good, the public good, social justice, (re)distributive justice, social identity and recognition, solidarity, human rights, ethics, morals, values, care, and the collective good, are being swallowed up, consumed, by individualism within a neoliberal, market mentality. HE is much richer than these. As Newman put it: the idea of a university is to provide more than that which has utility value: it is to develop \u2018a pure and clear atmosphere of thought, which the student also breathes\u2019. Similarly, as the English philosopher John Stuart Mill commented (if perhaps too exclusively): a university \u2018is not a place of professional education. Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men [sic] for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. Their object is not to make skilful lawyers, or physicians, or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings\u2019. HE is an agent for societal emancipation, community development, human rights, debate, disputation, critique, ethics, morals, values, and the promotion of social justice, recognition, identity, and service. HE should take a stand on its meanings, purposes, and crucial role in educating students to participate in an inclusive society, promoting social justice and humanity.
\n\n\n\nAs we start the new academic year in Macau\u2019s HE, ask yourselves: how are the teachers and students ensuring that what is taught and learned promotes sustainable humanity, society, thinking people, social justice, equality, human rights, critical thinking, agency, debate, and the public, collective, egalitarian good life for all? What kind of society are they trying to create, that makes it worth living in it? How are they improving the lot of the poor, the suppressed, the exploited, the voiceless, the marginalised, the despairing, and the unrepresented? What is HE, a major player in society, doing to address these? HE has a duty of care and responsibility here, which is more precious than simply being about getting a job. Is Macau\u2019s HE fulfilling these?
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | September 2022\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHere we are, at the start of a new academic year in Macau\u2019s higher education (HE). What will students learn? What kind of people are the institutions turning out? For example, look at the thousands of students studying business and technology in Macau, the big recruiters in HE. \n\n\n\nTake this article from a business journal. Here, MBA students adopted an uncritical acceptance of solely a market, profit-driven mentality. There was a culture of getting the degree and a job, rather than society-oriented, whole-person development. The students and their teachers ignored local and social needs, and only valued self-interested conformity to the neoliberal credo and to being entrepreneurial, self-interested, competition-thirsty individuals in a dog-eat-dog market. High-paying jobs, the creation of saleable graduates, global mobility, and marketability were emphasised. Students who did not conform to this view were marginalised, labelled as abnormal, and faced fines and exclusion. Neoliberal beliefs defined what was normal and abnormal. The class-stratified society and socio-economic inequities were reinforced and perpetuated. What were the students learning? Well, many things: self-interest, greed, acquisitiveness, materialism, and exploitation; HE for utility, economic purposes, and employment; the promotion of consumerism, marketisation, and the commodification of everything; the benefits of competition in a privatised market economy of public goods; personal investment in individualism and knowledge capital; people\u2019s value as measured in individual performance, with esteem measured by salary. People became economic units; things, not people.\n\n\n\nOr take information technology. A recent analysis of e-technology for learning, found that, of 27 of its putative claimed benefits and 30 claimed dangers, almost all of them concerned the individual. There was almost total silence on technology for society, community, social justice, values, ethics, equality, and societal and community issues and development.\n\n\n\nWhat do we see here? Business courses and information technology courses were almost silent on what kind of society, values, ethics, morals and people we should have, what matters in humans and societies. There was almost no mention of social service, community solidarity, a humanity-oriented society, key values for society, social systems, ethics, morals, and what kind of humans we want and need. \n\n\n\nWe live in a time when the social good, the public good, social justice, (re)distributive justice, social identity and recognition, solidarity, human rights, ethics, morals, values, care, and the collective good, are being swallowed up, consumed, by individualism within a neoliberal, market mentality. HE is much richer than these. As Newman put it: the idea of a university is to provide more than that which has utility value: it is to develop \u2018a pure and clear atmosphere of thought, which the student also breathes\u2019. Similarly, as the English philosopher John Stuart Mill commented (if perhaps too exclusively): a university \u2018is not a place of professional education. Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men [sic] for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. Their object is not to make skilful lawyers, or physicians, or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings\u2019. HE is an agent for societal emancipation, community development, human rights, debate, disputation, critique, ethics, morals, values, and the promotion of social justice, recognition, identity, and service. HE should take a stand on its meanings, purposes, and crucial role in educating students to participate in an inclusive society, promoting social justice and humanity. \n\n\n\nAs we start the new academic year in Macau\u2019s HE, ask yourselves: how are the teachers and students ensuring that what is taught and learned promotes sustainable humanity, society, thinking people, social justice, equality, human rights, critical thinking, agency, debate, and the public, collective, egalitarian good life for all? What kind of society are they trying to create, that makes it worth living in it? How are they improving the lot of the poor, the suppressed, the exploited, the voiceless, the marginalised, the despairing, and the unrepresented? What is HE, a major player in society, doing to address these? HE has a duty of care and responsibility here, which is more precious than simply being about getting a job. Is Macau\u2019s HE fulfilling these?", "date_published": "September 21, 2022", "date_modified": "September 22, 2022 - 03:01", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/WhatsApp-Image-2022-06-13-at-5.25.18-PM-1.jpeg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Here we are, at the start of a new academic year in Macau\u2019s higher education (HE). What will students learn? What kind of people are the institutions turning out? For example, look at the thousands of students studying business and technology in Macau, the big recruiters in HE. 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\nThe Macau government recently approved its first reading of a new bill to attract Macau locals to return to Macau to work. Simultaneously, Macau\u2019s Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture was reported as saying that if Macau could create a better environment and conditions, then \u2018local talents who are abroad will surely be interested in returning to Macau\u2019. In the same week, I, a Macau resident, returned to Macau and was stuck in a quarantine hotel prison cell, quietly rotting away.
\n\n\n\nBut I took heart in my solitude; the hotel provided an opportunity to create a series of awards that could push the Oscars into obscurity. Here are my awards which recognize the monumental achievements of my quarantine hotel, but which, regrettably, might deter locals from returning to work in Macau.
\n\n\n\nFor gastronomic creativity and finesse: breakfast of cold cauliflower, and lukewarm soup topped with a layer of grease, and, on another day, warm cooked lettuce plus a wet sandwich of cold cooked lettuce; same day lunch of warm cucumber.
\n\n\n\nFor consistency and surfeit: piles of rice at least twice a day, served as cold, sticky lumps; unbroken failure to provide any hot meal that was actually hot; daily disgusting food, consigned to the garbage bag and replaced by outside deliveries.
\n\n\n\nFor superfluity: a case of 25 bottles of water as a welcome gift in my cell, followed by multiple bottles of water daily.
\n\n\n\nFor dietary management: failure to provide vegetarian food when advance notice had been given that the inmate was a strict vegetarian.
\n\n\n\nFor time keeping: failure to deliver food on schedule, hence it always arrived cold.
\n\n\n\nFor generosity: two sets of the same cutlery at some meals.
\n\n\n\nFor prompting the rediscovery of one\u2019s inner primitivism: hands-only eating due to failure to provide cutlery for some meals.
\n\n\n\nFor living with uncertainty: never being told the time for the nucleic acid testing.
\n\n\n\nFor suspicious phone calls: room telephone ringing two or three times a day, which, when picked up, had nobody at the other end.
\n\n\n\nFor practical joking: providing only an orange for an evening meal.
\n\n\n\nFor singularity: for drinking, providing only water; some inmates, warned in advance of this, had brought their own tea, coffee, and mugs.
\n\n\n\nFor mystery appearance and disappearance: water seeping through the bathroom floor each day, and then vanishing.
\n\n\n\nFor mimicking the film \u2018Predator\u2019: internet connection that kept breaking up the on-screen image in video calls.
\n\n\n\nFor poking a nose into other people\u2019s business: not strictly the hotel\u2019s problem, but which took place on its premises. The alleged health department making an unsolicited, unannounced telephone call. The caller did not identify herself, did not ask for permission to question the inmate (nor was it given), did not introduce the purpose of the call, did not request or receive informed consent to proceed, and had the temerity to ask personal questions which were none of her business. The inmate declined to answer and to be prodded and poked like a piece of meat, uninvited, by an unidentified voice from an outside party. Such unprofessional, even unethical, intrusive cold calling is prize-winningly unacceptable.
\n\n\n\nFor trumping the theatre of the absurd: this whole, surreal, PPE costume-drama charade.
\n\n\n\nSo, the golden raspberry award goes to: the hotel\u2019s name, if you hadn\u2019t guessed it already, is available on request.
\n\n\n\nWhilst I was more or less forced to consent to quarantine, followed up by a letter from the Macau government informing me that it had the power to incarcerate me, this was not consent to appalling treatment and service, revolting food, and uninvited attempts to intrude into private matters. I had thought that a hotel is supposed to provide decent service, and that the government is committed to the wellbeing of its residents. Silly me.
\n\n\n\nI was lucky: my hotel quarantine only lasted one week. I escaped the three weeks of incarceration of earlier times and the damage that this caused to mental health; others didn\u2019t, and they suffered.
\n\n\n\nLocals thinking of returning to Macau under the present circumstances or in response to a proposed new bill, might wish to ponder on this.
\n\n\n\nFurther, \u2018why is it\u2019, I ask myself, \u2018that so many Macau residents are taking one-way flights to leave Macau, with no plans to return?\u2019. The newly proposed bill conveniently seems to overlook this, and the return to Macau is currently marred by nonsense handling of the virus.
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\nMacau Business | August 2022
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nBusiness 101. When companies plan their business models, typically they must consider, amongst other matters: their products and/or services; demand; market(s) and their environments (economic, political, cultural, social); existing, potential, and likely competition; start-up and ongoing costs and expenses; emergency funding; marketing and promotion; income streams, revenue, and delayed profit; sales; distribution; cash flow; profit margins, gross and net; liabilities; risk analysis, evaluation, and handling; constraints and the \u2018what if\u2019 factor; flexibility, adaptability, and adjustment. They must also be clear on the assumptions that they make, and these must be accurate and operational, i.e. given this, we do this; given that, we do that. Nothing new there, you say; it\u2019s in session one of an undergraduate business course, or, indeed school Form 6. All of this is about the business, not about the society and the individuals involved. Surely it\u2019s time to think differently?
\n\n\n\nSo, I ask myself what has gone wrong to cause the bottom to fall out of Macau\u2019s economy? There are obvious contenders: the pandemic; international conflicts; international protectionism; trade wars and sanctions; American exceptionalism and its steps to avoid quasi-imperial overstretch; insufficient economic diversification as a safety net, and so on. But how is it that international experts, analysts and corporates in Macau, experienced in telling the future (indeed, of ensuring that it happens), who rode in on the crest of China\u2019s economic tsunami, are now caught with their trousers down, with closures, staff redundancies, empty hotels, abandoned casino tables, daily losses of millions of US dollars, empty shopping malls, and no visible end in sight. Their business model and the assumptions underpinning it were wrong. Their market positioning and risk analysis were inadequately assessed; their adaptability and flexibility were straitjacketed; their environmental evaluation was too narrow, myopic, and self-serving. Maybe they were only in it for short-term profit, and now, with the cold, uncaring edge of business, they don\u2019t worry for more than a minute about firing people, with monstrous knock-on effects on families in Macau and overseas.
\n\n\n\nSome people would revel in schadenfreude, as international corporates which were happy to take the billion-dollar profits and revel in excess, are now caught in a massive downturn. Many of the casinos gambled on the regular high rollers for their bread and butter, but they have been caught out now. Look deeper. Behind all of this is the fragility of economic power and its links to international politics. Is it too much to expect China not to retaliate, very skilfully, to America\u2019s self-promotion of world domination, by cutting off mainland visitors to the casinos and their funnel to American dollars? Did the international corporates get their business model wrong in evaluating Macau\u2019s market environments and underestimating the power of the resistance that China could put up to western geopolitical economics?
\n\n\n\nWhat we see is not simply the Macau government not heeding sufficiently the many warnings of its need to diversify the economy, not only the failure of the big international gaming corporates in Macau to plan for what could go wrong, and why, but the neglect that the gaming operators paid to the power of China to flex its muscles and exercise its legitimate concern for self-protection when under economic attack, bad-mouthing, and action from countries in the west. Maybe China is taking steps to reduce the outflow of its currency to the west through Macau, or to prevent money laundering, or to demonstrate that it will not succumb to America considering itself as the world\u2019s police officer and master of the universe. Or, on top of this, maybe China, through Macau, is simply trying to curtail gambling, as the appeal of gambling to greed, a get-rich-quick, appetitive mentality, is simply not a public or private good.
\n\n\n\nWhat do we see now? The gaming corporates and consortia take the hit in Macau and are approaching other parts of South-east Asia to set up shop. Sad to say, the big spenders from China still continue to gamble, now elsewhere out of Macau. Does this augur opening a door for Macau to consider a more socially acceptable source of its income, instead of from exploiting the baser nature of human behaviour in gambling? I wish.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | August 2022\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBusiness 101. When companies plan their business models, typically they must consider, amongst other matters: their products and/or services; demand; market(s) and their environments (economic, political, cultural, social); existing, potential, and likely competition; start-up and ongoing costs and expenses; emergency funding; marketing and promotion; income streams, revenue, and delayed profit; sales; distribution; cash flow; profit margins, gross and net; liabilities; risk analysis, evaluation, and handling; constraints and the \u2018what if\u2019 factor; flexibility, adaptability, and adjustment. They must also be clear on the assumptions that they make, and these must be accurate and operational, i.e. given this, we do this; given that, we do that. Nothing new there, you say; it\u2019s in session one of an undergraduate business course, or, indeed school Form 6. All of this is about the business, not about the society and the individuals involved. Surely it\u2019s time to think differently?\n\n\n\nSo, I ask myself what has gone wrong to cause the bottom to fall out of Macau\u2019s economy? There are obvious contenders: the pandemic; international conflicts; international protectionism; trade wars and sanctions; American exceptionalism and its steps to avoid quasi-imperial overstretch; insufficient economic diversification as a safety net, and so on. But how is it that international experts, analysts and corporates in Macau, experienced in telling the future (indeed, of ensuring that it happens), who rode in on the crest of China\u2019s economic tsunami, are now caught with their trousers down, with closures, staff redundancies, empty hotels, abandoned casino tables, daily losses of millions of US dollars, empty shopping malls, and no visible end in sight. Their business model and the assumptions underpinning it were wrong. Their market positioning and risk analysis were inadequately assessed; their adaptability and flexibility were straitjacketed; their environmental evaluation was too narrow, myopic, and self-serving. Maybe they were only in it for short-term profit, and now, with the cold, uncaring edge of business, they don\u2019t worry for more than a minute about firing people, with monstrous knock-on effects on families in Macau and overseas.\n\n\n\nSome people would revel in schadenfreude, as international corporates which were happy to take the billion-dollar profits and revel in excess, are now caught in a massive downturn. Many of the casinos gambled on the regular high rollers for their bread and butter, but they have been caught out now. Look deeper. Behind all of this is the fragility of economic power and its links to international politics. Is it too much to expect China not to retaliate, very skilfully, to America\u2019s self-promotion of world domination, by cutting off mainland visitors to the casinos and their funnel to American dollars? Did the international corporates get their business model wrong in evaluating Macau\u2019s market environments and underestimating the power of the resistance that China could put up to western geopolitical economics? \n\n\n\nWhat we see is not simply the Macau government not heeding sufficiently the many warnings of its need to diversify the economy, not only the failure of the big international gaming corporates in Macau to plan for what could go wrong, and why, but the neglect that the gaming operators paid to the power of China to flex its muscles and exercise its legitimate concern for self-protection when under economic attack, bad-mouthing, and action from countries in the west. Maybe China is taking steps to reduce the outflow of its currency to the west through Macau, or to prevent money laundering, or to demonstrate that it will not succumb to America considering itself as the world\u2019s police officer and master of the universe. Or, on top of this, maybe China, through Macau, is simply trying to curtail gambling, as the appeal of gambling to greed, a get-rich-quick, appetitive mentality, is simply not a public or private good. \n\n\n\nWhat do we see now? The gaming corporates and consortia take the hit in Macau and are approaching other parts of South-east Asia to set up shop. Sad to say, the big spenders from China still continue to gamble, now elsewhere out of Macau. Does this augur opening a door for Macau to consider a more socially acceptable source of its income, instead of from exploiting the baser nature of human behaviour in gambling? I wish.", "date_published": "August 13, 2022", "date_modified": "August 14, 2022 - 22:35", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/CKK_5432.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Business 101. When companies plan their business models, typically they must consider, amongst other matters: their products and/or services; demand; market(s) and their environments (economic, political, cultural, social); existing, potential, and likely competition; start-up and ongoing costs and expenses; emergency funding; marketing and promotion; income streams, revenue, and delayed profit; sales; distribution; cash flow; profit margins, gross and net; liabilities; risk analysis, evaluation, and handling; constraints and the \u2018what if\u2019 factor; flexibility, adaptability, and adjustment. " }, { "id": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-the-wonderland-of-macaus-talent-development/", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/opinion-the-wonderland-of-macaus-talent-development/", "title": "OPINION \u2013 The wonderland of Macau\u2019s talent development", "content_html": "![\"\"](\"https://www.macaubusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/WhatsApp-Image-2021-03-15-at-16.05.00-150x150.jpeg\")
\nMacau Business | June 2022
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nThe world is full of interesting paradoxes that befuddle the mind. Or, as the delightful chapter in Alice in Wonderland put it: \u2018\u2018curiouser and curiouser!\u2019\u2019.
\n\n\n\nTry this one. Imagine that I am sitting in my Macau government office, looking at the bleak prospect for Macau\u2019s economy, and then I have a brainwave. \u2018I know, let\u2019s encourage talents to come to Macau from overseas, to improve the local expertise and develop the capability of the local workforce.\u2019 Sounds like a good idea? Yes, so the government takes it up.
\n\n\n\nWhy is it, then, I ask myself, that it is currently almost impossible for non-local, non-resident experts to enter Macau, and, when they do, give them such a hard time locked up in a hotel room and then released to work on a fragile contract? So, how does this work? One party says \u2018bring them in\u2019 and another party says \u2018keep them out\u2019. Odd.
\n\n\n\nCuriouser and curiouser: how is that Macau\u2019s Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) thinks that it knows better than Macau\u2019s employers, arguing that non-local experts are not needed after all, as non-expert locals can be trained up by locals. The DSAL follows up its own stunningly brilliant burst of inspiration by denying non-locals the jobs, thereby stepping on the toes of the employers who know what they need and who cannot find it in the locals. So, now we have an all-knowing, all-wise, omnipotent DSAL that not only knows more than the employer but dictates to the employer the staff recruitment strategy that it should have, i.e. the DSAL controls the workforce and the employing institution. Odd.
\n\n\n\nFor example, let us say that an employer wants somebody with expertise and experience in liaising with business in mainland China. The employer advertises the position, receives applications from local Macau would-be employees, interviews them and finds that none of them is suitable. The employer identifies a non-local expert who has the experience and expertise required, and goes through the procedures to bring her from outside Macau. \u2018So far, so good\u2019, says the employer, popping along to the DSAL feeling upbeat, with the problem solved. But then the DSAL tells the employer that, in the spirit of local jobs for local people, the application is refused, and that the employer and his/her staff, who have no background, expertise or experience in the field, can train up a local person who, too, has no background, expertise or experience in the field.
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/DSAL.jpg\")
Who, then, is going to train the ignorant and inexperienced locals, the block having been put on recruiting non-local experts, and there being no local experts to train them? The employer scratches his or her head and asks himself or herself what\u2019s going on here. The whole point was that there was nobody local who had the expertise and experience, i.e. nobody to do the training or the job.
\n\n\n\nAha, the government has the solution; it promises training. This is where Macau\u2019s Talents Development Committee steps in. For example, on its website, it trumpets that \u2018the Talents Development Committee and the Macau Institute of Financial Services have signed an agreement in 2018 to organize a series of training activities in forms of seminars, workshops and short-term courses since 2019\u2019. Sounds great, and it crows that \u2018[t]here were 3 seminars held in 2019, naming \u201cFinTechstic: the innovation and opportunities of FinTech\u201d, \u201cFinancial leasing: origin, law and business activities\u201d, \u201cThe opportunities and challenges of Characteristic Finance in Macao\u201d\u2019. That\u2019s super-charged, rocket-boosted talent development for you. So, there we have it: all you need is a few seminars, and you are equipped to be an expert, on the home-run to wealth and good fortune. Odd.
\n\n\n\nThere remains the nagging question of why the local workforce doesn\u2019t seem to be good enough to meet the needs of the jobs market. Macau has ten higher education institutions, with around 16,000 local students (latest data available), over 300 of whom were registered for doctorate programs and nearly 2,000 of whom were registered for Master\u2019s programmes. Surely they should be in the vanguard of local expertise, talent development and provision? So, what\u2019s happening if the higher education they are receiving inside Macau is not equipping them for high-level jobs, i.e. there is a talent development desert? Or maybe it\u2019s something about the character of the local workforce.
\n\n\n\nCuriouser and curiouser. Welcome to Macau\u2019s wonderland \u2026 only if you\u2019re local.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | June 2022\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe world is full of interesting paradoxes that befuddle the mind. Or, as the delightful chapter in Alice in Wonderland put it: \u2018\u2018curiouser and curiouser!\u2019\u2019. \n\n\n\nTry this one. Imagine that I am sitting in my Macau government office, looking at the bleak prospect for Macau\u2019s economy, and then I have a brainwave. \u2018I know, let\u2019s encourage talents to come to Macau from overseas, to improve the local expertise and develop the capability of the local workforce.\u2019 Sounds like a good idea? Yes, so the government takes it up.\n\n\n\nWhy is it, then, I ask myself, that it is currently almost impossible for non-local, non-resident experts to enter Macau, and, when they do, give them such a hard time locked up in a hotel room and then released to work on a fragile contract? So, how does this work? One party says \u2018bring them in\u2019 and another party says \u2018keep them out\u2019. Odd.\n\n\n\nCuriouser and curiouser: how is that Macau\u2019s Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) thinks that it knows better than Macau\u2019s employers, arguing that non-local experts are not needed after all, as non-expert locals can be trained up by locals. The DSAL follows up its own stunningly brilliant burst of inspiration by denying non-locals the jobs, thereby stepping on the toes of the employers who know what they need and who cannot find it in the locals. So, now we have an all-knowing, all-wise, omnipotent DSAL that not only knows more than the employer but dictates to the employer the staff recruitment strategy that it should have, i.e. the DSAL controls the workforce and the employing institution. Odd.\n\n\n\nFor example, let us say that an employer wants somebody with expertise and experience in liaising with business in mainland China. The employer advertises the position, receives applications from local Macau would-be employees, interviews them and finds that none of them is suitable. The employer identifies a non-local expert who has the experience and expertise required, and goes through the procedures to bring her from outside Macau. \u2018So far, so good\u2019, says the employer, popping along to the DSAL feeling upbeat, with the problem solved. But then the DSAL tells the employer that, in the spirit of local jobs for local people, the application is refused, and that the employer and his/her staff, who have no background, expertise or experience in the field, can train up a local person who, too, has no background, expertise or experience in the field. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho, then, is going to train the ignorant and inexperienced locals, the block having been put on recruiting non-local experts, and there being no local experts to train them? The employer scratches his or her head and asks himself or herself what\u2019s going on here. The whole point was that there was nobody local who had the expertise and experience, i.e. nobody to do the training or the job. \n\n\n\nAha, the government has the solution; it promises training. This is where Macau\u2019s Talents Development Committee steps in. For example, on its website, it trumpets that \u2018the Talents Development Committee and the Macau Institute of Financial Services have signed an agreement in 2018 to organize a series of training activities in forms of seminars, workshops and short-term courses since 2019\u2019. Sounds great, and it crows that \u2018[t]here were 3 seminars held in 2019, naming \u201cFinTechstic: the innovation and opportunities of FinTech\u201d, \u201cFinancial leasing: origin, law and business activities\u201d, \u201cThe opportunities and challenges of Characteristic Finance in Macao\u201d\u2019. That\u2019s super-charged, rocket-boosted talent development for you. So, there we have it: all you need is a few seminars, and you are equipped to be an expert, on the home-run to wealth and good fortune. Odd.\n\n\n\nThere remains the nagging question of why the local workforce doesn\u2019t seem to be good enough to meet the needs of the jobs market. Macau has ten higher education institutions, with around 16,000 local students (latest data available), over 300 of whom were registered for doctorate programs and nearly 2,000 of whom were registered for Master\u2019s programmes. Surely they should be in the vanguard of local expertise, talent development and provision? So, what\u2019s happening if the higher education they are receiving inside Macau is not equipping them for high-level jobs, i.e. there is a talent development desert? Or maybe it\u2019s something about the character of the local workforce.\n\n\n\nCuriouser and curiouser. Welcome to Macau\u2019s wonderland \u2026 only if you\u2019re local.", "date_published": "June 19, 2022", "date_modified": "June 19, 2022 - 03:50", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/WhatsApp-Image-2021-03-15-at-16.05.00.jpeg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "The world is full of interesting paradoxes that befuddle the mind. Or, as the delightful chapter in Alice in Wonderland put it: \u2018\u2018curiouser and curiouser!\u2019\u2019. 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\nMacau Business | May 2022
\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist
\n\n\n\nAcross the world, a civil service job pays well and is secure. Not bad if you can get it, with competitive entry to it by hordes of applicants.
\n\n\n\nLatest figures show that Macau has 38,000 civil servants, just over 10 per cent of its employed population (like small Monaco); public administration and social security workers in Macau earn a median monthly salary of around 46,400 patacas. Singapore has 86,000 civil servants, some 2.4 per cent of its employed population, with an average monthly salary equivalent to just over 51,000 patacas. Hong Kong has nearly 177,000 civil servants, 4.6 per cent of the labour force, with a Master\u2019s pay scale from HK$24,000 (10 points) to 135,470 HK$ per month (49 points), and a national average salary for a civil servant of HK$25,273 per month. Why does Macau have such a disproportionate number of civil servants and pay them so highly?
\n\n\n\nProportionality and scalability are not exact or the same for small and large economies; small countries still need the full gamut of civil services. However, whilst it is very dangerous to generalize (not least as taxation varies dramatically across the world), it seems as though a job in the civil service/public service is pretty secure and pay is good. No wonder that, for many workers in Macau, it is like the author James Hilton\u2019s Shangri-La; the lost horizon and perfect place of refuge from the vicissitudes of the outside world. Getting a job in the civil service is their dream, their sheltered world, their safe bubble.
\n\n\n\nWhilst workers in Macau struggle to keep their jobs in the private sector, civil servants in Macau continue to enjoy a blessed existence. No wonder they do anything to hang onto their jobs, e.g. don\u2019t rock the boat, do as you are told, and don\u2019t try to be creative; it\u2019s dangerous to think or to have an idea. Be prepared to do a repetitive, dull job without questioning its worth. That\u2019s almost to be expected in civil service jobs around the world. That\u2019s bureaucracy for you.
\n\n\n\nThe problem is that this mindset suffers from bureaucracy creep, failing to rectify inefficiency, and creating a workforce of compliant, docile functionaries, content to graze as long as there is grass. But it goes beyond that: to quote the social philosopher Habermas, bureaucracy \u2018colonizes\u2019 the \u2018lifeworld\u2019 of citizens, and, in doing so, stifles discussion, creative argumentation and thinking out of the box, reinforces existing power structures and furthers the Peter principle. Any discussion of the good life is deformed into \u2018shut up, do your job, and take the money\u2019.
\n\n\n\nHow far does this apply to Macau? Here are eight light-hearted theorems of civil servants in Macau.
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Theorem One: The number one task of the civil service in Macau is to give Macau people jobs in its civil service, regardless of needless bureaucracy and trouble that this creates for the public. It keeps the unemployment figures down.
\n\n\n\nTheorem Two: It doesn\u2019t matter that Macau\u2019s civil service is too big and flabby.
\n\n\n\nTheorem Three: The size of Macau\u2019s civil service relates to the tasks that it sets for itself, not the tasks that really need to be done. Doing needless, really unnecessary tasks keeps people in jobs.
\n\n\n\nTheorem Four: The civil service is supposed to serve the public, but in Macau it is the other way round.
\n\n\n\nTheorem Five: One task of civil servants in Macau is to receive reports and documents on everything, from public and private enterprises, and then file them away, with no consequences, impact, and maybe even nobody ever reading them.
\n\n\n\nTheorem Six: Civil servants in Macau should have low expectations of themselves, and not worry about their ignorance of the field in which they are working.
\n\n\n\nTheorem Seven: The task of civil servants in Macau is to control beyond the legitimate boundaries of their role, and to encroach too far into the running of private enterprises.
\n\n\n\nFor example, in the name of civil service, there is surveillance and intrusion into the lives and work of Macau\u2019s citizens, employers and employees, the necessity or utility of which is opaque and incomprehensible. But never mind; it keeps the civil servants in a job. Even if you ask them why they need such-and-such a piece of information, or why they turn up at private enterprises to check out meaningless matters, the answer is something along the lines of a stony-faced \u2018don\u2019t ask, because I\u2019ve been told to do it\u2019, or, indeed, a smiling pretence that they haven\u2019t even heard the question.
\n\n\n\nTheorem Eight: Getting value for money from the civil service doesn\u2019t matter in Macau, as civil servants can more or less earn whatever they demand, by holding a relatively wealthy government to ransom.
\n\n\n\nIf Macau\u2019s endeavour is to be a smart city, then why are so many of its civil service practices and procedures so un-smart, unnecessary and monstrously bureaucratic, and its civil servants so overpaid, unthinking and unquestioning, however polite and smiling they are trained to be? Toy poodles in a dog show, obedient to their owners. Woof.
\n", "content_text": "Macau Business | May 2022\n\n\n\nKeith Morrison \u2013 Author and educationist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAcross the world, a civil service job pays well and is secure. Not bad if you can get it, with competitive entry to it by hordes of applicants. \n\n\n\nLatest figures show that Macau has 38,000 civil servants, just over 10 per cent of its employed population (like small Monaco); public administration and social security workers in Macau earn a median monthly salary of around 46,400 patacas. Singapore has 86,000 civil servants, some 2.4 per cent of its employed population, with an average monthly salary equivalent to just over 51,000 patacas. Hong Kong has nearly 177,000 civil servants, 4.6 per cent of the labour force, with a Master\u2019s pay scale from HK$24,000 (10 points) to 135,470 HK$ per month (49 points), and a national average salary for a civil servant of HK$25,273 per month. Why does Macau have such a disproportionate number of civil servants and pay them so highly? \n\n\n\nProportionality and scalability are not exact or the same for small and large economies; small countries still need the full gamut of civil services. However, whilst it is very dangerous to generalize (not least as taxation varies dramatically across the world), it seems as though a job in the civil service/public service is pretty secure and pay is good. No wonder that, for many workers in Macau, it is like the author James Hilton\u2019s Shangri-La; the lost horizon and perfect place of refuge from the vicissitudes of the outside world. Getting a job in the civil service is their dream, their sheltered world, their safe bubble.\n\n\n\nWhilst workers in Macau struggle to keep their jobs in the private sector, civil servants in Macau continue to enjoy a blessed existence. No wonder they do anything to hang onto their jobs, e.g. don\u2019t rock the boat, do as you are told, and don\u2019t try to be creative; it\u2019s dangerous to think or to have an idea. Be prepared to do a repetitive, dull job without questioning its worth. That\u2019s almost to be expected in civil service jobs around the world. That\u2019s bureaucracy for you.\n\n\n\nThe problem is that this mindset suffers from bureaucracy creep, failing to rectify inefficiency, and creating a workforce of compliant, docile functionaries, content to graze as long as there is grass. But it goes beyond that: to quote the social philosopher Habermas, bureaucracy \u2018colonizes\u2019 the \u2018lifeworld\u2019 of citizens, and, in doing so, stifles discussion, creative argumentation and thinking out of the box, reinforces existing power structures and furthers the Peter principle. Any discussion of the good life is deformed into \u2018shut up, do your job, and take the money\u2019.\n\n\n\nHow far does this apply to Macau? Here are eight light-hearted theorems of civil servants in Macau.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheorem One: The number one task of the civil service in Macau is to give Macau people jobs in its civil service, regardless of needless bureaucracy and trouble that this creates for the public. It keeps the unemployment figures down.\n\n\n\nTheorem Two: It doesn\u2019t matter that Macau\u2019s civil service is too big and flabby.\n\n\n\nTheorem Three: The size of Macau\u2019s civil service relates to the tasks that it sets for itself, not the tasks that really need to be done. Doing needless, really unnecessary tasks keeps people in jobs.\n\n\n\nTheorem Four: The civil service is supposed to serve the public, but in Macau it is the other way round.\n\n\n\nTheorem Five: One task of civil servants in Macau is to receive reports and documents on everything, from public and private enterprises, and then file them away, with no consequences, impact, and maybe even nobody ever reading them.\n\n\n\nTheorem Six: Civil servants in Macau should have low expectations of themselves, and not worry about their ignorance of the field in which they are working.\n\n\n\nTheorem Seven: The task of civil servants in Macau is to control beyond the legitimate boundaries of their role, and to encroach too far into the running of private enterprises. \n\n\n\nFor example, in the name of civil service, there is surveillance and intrusion into the lives and work of Macau\u2019s citizens, employers and employees, the necessity or utility of which is opaque and incomprehensible. But never mind; it keeps the civil servants in a job. Even if you ask them why they need such-and-such a piece of information, or why they turn up at private enterprises to check out meaningless matters, the answer is something along the lines of a stony-faced \u2018don\u2019t ask, because I\u2019ve been told to do it\u2019, or, indeed, a smiling pretence that they haven\u2019t even heard the question.\n\n\n\nTheorem Eight: Getting value for money from the civil service doesn\u2019t matter in Macau, as civil servants can more or less earn whatever they demand, by holding a relatively wealthy government to ransom.\n\n\n\nIf Macau\u2019s endeavour is to be a smart city, then why are so many of its civil service practices and procedures so un-smart, unnecessary and monstrously bureaucratic, and its civil servants so overpaid, unthinking and unquestioning, however polite and smiling they are trained to be? Toy poodles in a dog show, obedient to their owners. Woof.", "date_published": "May 22, 2022", "date_modified": "May 22, 2022 - 11:55", "author": { "name": "Keith Morrison", "url": "https://www.macaubusiness.com/author/keith-morrison/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2cbea4555b349452d65f06d8dd037154?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://hogo.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/macaubusiness/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Edif_Admin_Publica.jpg", "tags": [ "Macau", "Macau Business", "MAG", "MB", "MB Featured", "Opinion" ], "summary": "Across the world, a civil service job pays well and is secure. Not bad if you can get it, with competitive entry to it by hordes of applicants. 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