Ok, so the debacle over foreign talent has been going on for a while. many disgruntled singaporeans are being displaced by foreign “talent”. Some foreigners are worthy, others are not. But when you get local monks being displaced by foreign ones, that’s just not cool. C’mon, they’re MONKS. You’re not supposed to mess with the holy dudes.
From today’s Straits Times:
Some monks here are feeling the heat of competition provided by their foreign counterparts.
In particular, the local monks claim that foreign monks, who are mostly from China and Malaysia, are undercutting them by charging up to 50 per cent less for prayer sessions conducted at funeral wakes.
Mr Ang Juat Chong, 59, a Singaporean who has been a Buddhist monk for the last 18 years, said his monthly income has gone down by as much as 70 per cent in the last two years because of this.
‘Local monks charge about $1,200 to do Buddhist rites at funeral wakes, but these foreign monks charge only $600 or $700. So of course, funeral parlours will prefer to hire them,’ he told The Straits Times yesterday.
This is too much man. They’re replacing every single one of us?!
Tsk. Karma will come your way… just wait. I’ve seen it happy twice this month already to people who totally deserve it.
TGIF!
Posted on November 18, 2011
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