Many of our government policies are quite complicated and baffling, e.g. public transport, foreign workers, housing, medical care. A good term to describe it as "convoluted".
Instead of addressing the root cause of the problems, the government has been applying the approach of "tweaking" and "calibrating", which often led to worse outcomes.
I read a statement from a government leader that it is not easy to "re-nationalize" public transport. Many people may not realize that some parts of the system are already under central control, e.g. setting of fares, and funding of capital expenditure on buses. So, we are already partly under central control and partly under privte sector control. By continuing our current structure, we are getting the worse of both systems.
I wanted to find a word to describe our approach, and the word "oxymoron" comes to my mind. It is defined as "A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist."
I will be writing more about these issues.
Instead of addressing the root cause of the problems, the government has been applying the approach of "tweaking" and "calibrating", which often led to worse outcomes.
I read a statement from a government leader that it is not easy to "re-nationalize" public transport. Many people may not realize that some parts of the system are already under central control, e.g. setting of fares, and funding of capital expenditure on buses. So, we are already partly under central control and partly under privte sector control. By continuing our current structure, we are getting the worse of both systems.
I wanted to find a word to describe our approach, and the word "oxymoron" comes to my mind. It is defined as "A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist."
I will be writing more about these issues.
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