2 hours ago, The Farang said:

But he's right.  The average person makes about 10,000 baht a month.   If your rent is 5000, that leaves you with 5000.  Then they have to send money back home, usually 2000 every month.   So that leaves you with about 3000.  Then after bills you barely have enough to eat.

The average in BKK is 25000 THB per month.

12 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Can you for once stop with talking BS about this country. There are loads of people who have a good education make a good living.

We lost our maid who now makes 350k baht per year picking strawberries in S Korea.

 

Please go on and tell me where people with little or no education can make 350k+ baht per year in Thailand. 

So the Thai economy is in the sewer and the Thai military wants to punish people who go abroad to make living. Stupid.

16 hours ago, webfact said:

“Labourers who work illegally will not be protected by the labour law or welfare, whether they are cheated, attacked, injured, or killed,” he warned.

In all fairness, the workers from nearby countries here in Thailand legally hardly get taken care of

they  need  those  smart  cars and  a  hotline  for  us frangs  to  report  them  pronto

20 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

In all fairness, the workers from nearby countries here in Thailand legally hardly get taken care of

Exactly. It's Thai hypocrisy once again.

And just how does he know who went abroad and worked illegally?

17 hours ago, johng said:

There are many many more who don't have a good education and have to survive on 300 baht per day.

And many don't even get that, it's take it or leave it in Isan.

17 hours ago, webfact said:

He asked people not to immigrate illegally for work to protect the country's image as well as those of legal workers.

It is just too bad if you are broke and starving.   Please think of those who are better off than yuu or who want tons of face at international meetings.   You being poor is a you problem.   The country's image ????    Help the poor by beating them down is the image the junta is showing to the world.  A rebuttal from opposition would be nice to hear.

17 hours ago, PatOngo said:

The reason they go and work illegally in other countries is because they get so screwed over here, wages are abysmal, only the corrupt fat cats make any decent money here, what does that do for the much coveted country's image!

 

"do as we say, not as we do, pleb"

 

 

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

In all fairness, the workers from nearby countries here in Thailand legally hardly get taken care of

 

same way IO knows if you are going to work here illegally

 

they guess.

 

 

imagine in a month, 150.000 new unemployed people added

 

good there is no social welfare in thailand

21 hours ago, johng said:

There are many many more who don't have a good education and have to survive on 300 baht per day.

For the benefit of the minority with good education and good wages????

13 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

The average in BKK is 25000 THB per month.

Certainly not "the average"

13 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

The average in BKK is 25000 THB per month.

Pathetic, isn't it!

12 minutes ago, Tchooptip said:

Certainly not "the average"

It is, google it

9 hours ago, dcnx said:

We lost our maid who now makes 350k baht per year picking strawberries in S Korea.

 

Please go on and tell me where people with little or no education can make 350k+ baht per year in Thailand. 

The cost of living in South Korean is a lot more than in Thailand too:

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=South+Korea 

So not a good comparison.

Edited March 10, 20206 yr by FritsSikkink

On 3/9/2020 at 2:58 PM, tonray said:

yes and no....generally if you have an education you can decently make a living here...many people who travel overseas for illegal work have nothing more than a high school education and have few skills (outside of being a masseuse in Korea) in demand. The security guy at my old apartment took a job picking fruit in Israel because it was better than sitting in front of the building all day doing nothing...but again...no desire to further his education or skills.

Many of these jobs will eventually be eliminated come the AI era, which is going to be a big wake up call to all these poorly educated Thais working abroad. Except masseuses, they'll always be in demand! I mean, who wants a massage from a robot masseuse, right?