"Household incomes up; bottom third's wages down"
That's what today's headline says. So hor, what's the difference between income and wages? Poor people one called "wages" ah?
Or is income a state of mind? As in "my income went up but my wages went down."
I decided to see if I could come up with other headlines, you know, just to practise my English power:
"Income gap between rich and poor Singaporeans gets wider"
"The rich and middle-class get richer, the poor get poorer"
"Damn, the poor in Singapore are so screwed now"
"Damn, the poor in Singapore are so screwed now, and wait till they hear about the cost of living increases"
"Poorest 30% of Singaporeans got poorer"
But of course, none of my headlines were as good as the ST one, with that nice "Household incomes up" first line. I felt so up reading it this morning.
Updated: I just realised over at TODAY, the headline was "Poorer S'poreans earned less last year". Wah lau eh, so downer lor. At least the ST one gave a nice mostly-good-news feeling.
