Poll: Thais stressed by rising cost of living and corruption

[webfact]

Poll: Thais stressed by rising cost of living and corruption

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A Suan Dusit poll asked Thais last week what they are most stressed about.

 

The results were as follows:

 

1. How expensive everything is : 67.76%

2. How much corruption there is: 63.93%

3. Covid-19: 57.47%

4. Work related matters: 40.43%

 

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Go shopping: 51.47%

2. Play on the internet: 35.35%

3. Eat: 33.51%

 

A total of 1,358 Thais were asked their opinions in the poll from Wednesday to Friday of last week, said Sanook. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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[YetAnother]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Go shopping: 51.47%

how incredibly shallow 

[Thaiwrath]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

A Suan Dusit poll asked Thais last week what they are most stressed about.

 

I would have thought "Our country is being run by military clowns" would have been high up there.

[pkrv]

A shame one answer option wasn't:

4. Do something about about the state of the nation and drive meaningful change and oust the jokers running the place.

Edited September 21, 2020 by pkrv

[ChipButty]

Thai's are stressed, what about us farang?

[2 is 1]

24 minutes ago, webfact said:

3. Eat: 33.51%

Som tam take all your problem's away! Even put money in your wallet!

[RotBenz8888]

23 minutes ago, webfact said:

1. How expensive everything is : 67.76%

2. How much corruption there is: 63.93%

3. Covid-19: 57.47%

4. Work related matters: 40.43%

 

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

1. Take more loans

2. Thailand no have

3. Wear a mask 

4. Work is for Burmese people. 

[SymS]

Source of stress:

 

1. How expensive everything is : 67.76%

 

Answer to stress:

 

1. Go shopping: 51.47%

 

Leading to much more stress and more shopping!

[darksidedog]

You would think that they would have more meaningful things to worry about in all honesty.

Economy in tatters, government incompetent and wrongly in power being up there.

At least the unwashed farang spreading diseases didn't get a mention though.

[Misterwhisper]

What is your greatest stress factor?

29 minutes ago, webfact said:

How expensive everything is

And how do you relieve that stress?

30 minutes ago, webfact said:

Go shopping

Go figure!

[steven100]

30 minutes ago, webfact said:

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Go shopping: 51.47%

2. Play on the internet: 35.35%

3. Eat: 33.51%

lol ........   well that'll take your mind off it. 

[Greenside]

Hysterical ????

[rkidlad]

34 minutes ago, webfact said:

3. Eat: 33.51%

Have they thought about incorporating the sufficiency economy? Either that or they could eat cake. 

[tonray]

35 minutes ago, webfact said:

The results were as follows:

 

1. How expensive everything is : 67.76%

2. How much corruption there is: 63.93%

3. Covid-19: 57.47%

4. Work related matters: 40.43%

 

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Go shopping: 51.47%

2. Play on the internet: 35.35%

3. Eat: 33.51%

10 million Thais just found their Lottery Numbers for the next drawing:

 

67...76..63..93..57..47..40...43..51..47...35...33..51

 

Oh Snap...51 and 47 repeat....heading down to the neighborhood gambling hall (er I mean Temple)...to get my numbers

[tonray]

1 minute ago, rkidlad said:

Have they thought about incorporating the sufficiency economy? Either that or they could eat cake. 

Let them eat submarines...

[varun]

Quote

A Suan Dusit poll asked Thais last week what they are most stressed about.

 

1. How expensive everything is : 67.76%

 

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Go shopping: 51.47%

 

A total of 1,358 Thais were asked their opinions in the poll from Wednesday to Friday of last week, said Sanook. 

So your solution to manage the stress of everything being expensive, 

is to go shopping and buy it anyways?

 

TIT - the land of oxymorons 

[worgeordie]

I don't know how the poor are managing,all their basic food

is expensive now Pla Tu ,Pork,Rice,some veg.fruit. prices

going up a few Baht mean a big difference to them,earning

so little.

regards Worgeordie

[Moonlover]

53 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

59 minutes ago, webfact said:

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Go shopping: 51.47%

 

53 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

how incredibly shallow 

Yes and you would probably get a similar shallow answer in the developed countries as well. Maybe even more so!

[PatOngo]

1 minute ago, worgeordie said:

I don't know how the poor are managing, all their basic food

is expensive now Pla Tu , Pork, Rice,some veg. . prices

going up a few Baht mean a big difference to them, earning

so little.

regards Worgeordie

Must be stressful...........Time to go shop-ping!

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, YetAnother said:

59 minutes ago, webfact said:

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Go shopping: 51.47%

 

1 hour ago, YetAnother said:

how incredibly shallow 

Yes and you would probably get a similar shallow answer in the developed countries as well. Maybe even more so!

 

'Shopping' the women's 'therapy of choice' in many countries.

 

Edited September 21, 2020 by Moonlover

[worgeordie]

2 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Must be stressful...........Time to go shop-ping!

They are not going out to buy Tv's, cars, or other stuff they don't need,

just food for today's meals, with so little income,it must be stressful

when prices just go up a few Baht for them,

regards Worgeordie

[Matzzon]

2 hours ago, YetAnother said:

how incredibly shallow 

Why? Have you ever thought about how many people go shopping with family on free days, and see that as a social and relaxing thing to to? What is shallow with that? I think the only thing shallow here is your way of thinking. I would actually go as far as saying it´s hollow.

[Fex Bluse]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Poll: Farang stressed by rising cost of living and corruption

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Asked what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Drink cheap beer: 51.47%

2. Play with massage girls: 35.35%

3. Argue on Thai Visa: 33.51%

????

[rupert the bear]

well problems solved.subjective rather than objective id say but.........problem solving and action seem to have been left off the menu here,just ask TAT

[JungleBiker]

Never trust a poll that expresses percentages to 2 decimal places (e.g. 67.76%). It shows that the people conducting the poll are amateurs. 

[LukKrueng]

That's a joke, not a poll. Sample size 0.00194% of the population...

And why would they be stressed about corruption? It's been a part of life like forever. Most, if not all people use it to their benefit. Some for small things like traffic/ license violations or running unregistered business where they're not supposed to, others for bigger things like getting away with murder

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

What is your greatest stress factor?

And how do you relieve that stress?

Go figure!

Yep, Thai logic.

[BritManToo]

Not really noticed any rising prices.

Free government school gone from 0k/term to 6k/term.

Government University went from 8k/term to 12k/term.

Mortgage has gone down from 6.25% to 4.75%

Petrol down from 33bht/ltr to 21bht/ltr.

 

I actually think things are getting a bit cheaper overall.

The 18kbht/year I save on the mortgage (1.5%) more than makes up for any other increases.

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, JungleBiker said:

Never trust a poll that expresses percentages to 2 decimal places (e.g. 67.76%). It shows that the people conducting the poll are amateurs. 

I would suggest that they collated the figures on a spreadsheet and didn't bother (or didn't know to) round the results to a whole number.

[djayz]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

How expensive everything is

 

8 hours ago, webfact said:

what was their answer to all this stress the replies were:

 

1. Go shopping

????

Where's the logic?