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Home » News from Thailand » Many elderly people in Thailand have been hit hard by the corona crisis
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The Covid-19 crisis has hit the elderly in Thailand extremely hard. Seniors suffer the most from the massive decline in employment, which will force most to continue working beyond retirement age or fall into poverty.
The over-XNUMXs made up a third of the workforce last year, and XNUMX percent of them work in the informal sector, according to a lecturer at Mahidol University's Institute for Population and Social Research.
Thailand has twelve million elderly people, says an economics professor at Chulalongkorn University. Forty percent have work, half of which in the agricultural sector. The rest have small businesses including restaurants, shops and street vendors, with which they support their families. But that income has declined sharply due to the pandemic, forcing them to rely on funds or gifts from children, who themselves also have financial problems due to the crisis.
Source: Bangkok Post
Well,
Here in Chang Mai, you see poverty increasing rapidly, how long can the Thai survive this before they revolt.
Dear laksi, how do you see poverty increasing rapidly in Chiangmai.
I live about 45 km south of the center of Cm and I still don't see poverty increasing in my immediate area.
That it will all be less, that's for sure.
But I'm still waiting for a skilled gardener despite high unemployment.
In our village and in the immediate vicinity, everyone has a job with the exception of the professionally unemployed.
Jan Beute.
I agree with Laksi. I also see how things are changing quickly here. My partner works as a safety manager in a large company. Every day people are fired from suppliers' companies. Unemployment is rising at a rapid pace, as unemployment rises, poverty inevitably increases over time. On the other hand, it is also the case that many people were directly and indirectly employed in the tourism sector. It is needless to explain that tourism has ended here. Chiang Mai was a tourist attraction before the Corona and has therefore been hit extra hard. Jan Beute may live only 45 km from Chiang Mai, but poverty is increasing here in Chiang Mai.
Goodbye
Submarines have to be bought again
John, and you can now see that the wafer-thin upper layer - who is in charge - doesn't give a damn how the poor get around. As long as the rich get richer, that's what counts. But that's not typically Thai: that's apparently inherent to being rich….except for a few.
And what shall we call: communism? History has shown that no system, including communism, will diminish greed. In any system, there are always people who are a bit more equal than others. Even in the paradise on earth, with Mr. Oen, there is an immense difference between rich and poor.
The difference is that in countries like Thailand there is no government safety net; at most the safety net 'family', but there is also all too often a skimpy kitchen master.
I think no system can control the greed that some people have more than others. A purely capitalist system succumbs to greed, and even with semi-capitalist systems we have the problem of going from crisis to crisis. Boom and bust, the overproduction and the bubble that pops. Time after time. A social safety net can partly overcome this, but that safety net is minimal in Thailand. This naturally angers the plebs, who are not particularly happy when the state serves the higher lords more than the plebs (including bailouts). The plebs are always screwed. Consequence: anger, chance of protest or even revolution.
Is the question in which system people can best be helped without too many excesses. How does a dignified social system work? Or does anyone have the solution to quell greed?
In the meantime, Thailand, including the elderly, would benefit from a more social system. Naturally, with more participation on various fronts.
Same motivation taken over from India.
There they spend billions on space travel, while the population is struggling.
Reasoning: the amount does not matter to the population, if the money is used for the population, a cup of tea can be bought from it. Then spend it on space travel.
So also applies to Thailand, better 2 subs than helping the population.
We also know that here in the Netherlands. You buy 2 boats (1 million euros) that are not sufficient and then you do it again. Or you give 100 million to a female singer in the US, while in the Netherlands you say that there is no money for … well, you name it. We still have food banks.
In my opinion, Thailand can be divided into two groups, the rich (small group) and the poor (large group). The small group wants to keep what they have at all costs and have little or nothing to do with the large group. If the poor would revolt, the rich would have an appropriate response. Also the genes that pull the strings.
I miss the middle class that started from the lower class. Every country wants a solid middle class because then you can start levying income taxes.
In Thailand there is certainly a middle class, otherwise there are no Central Plazas in the country. They have a good sense of the direction a region is heading.
When will they finally allow the tourists back in? Then the income will follow automatically.
I don't really believe in the story that the elderly would suffer proportionally more from the Covid crisis. I think it's much more of a rich-middle-class-poor story.
There are also older Thais who simply have a job with the government, a company and earn a salary or have a reasonable pension. Depending on the sector where one works or worked, one suffers more or less from the measures.