M-shape society

M-shape society is an observation put forward by the Japanese business strategist and writer Kenichi Ohma. According to his observation, he argued that the structure of our society has emerged into a 'M-shape' distribution.

In a well-developed modern society, the distribution of classes is in a 'normal distribution' pattern, and the middle class forms the bulk of the society.

However, in the emergence of the 'M-shape society', the middle class in the society gradually disappeared. A very few people in this middle class may climb up the ladder and squeeze into the upper class, while the others in the middle class gradually sank to the lower classes. These people experienced a deterioration in living standard. They may face threat of unemployment, or their average salary are dropping.

Gradually, they can only live a way the lower classes live: e.g. take buses instead of driving their own car, cut their budget for meals instead of dining at better restaurants, spend less in consumer goods...

This seems to be seen clearer and clearer in the Malaysia society. In the recent reports, the undergraduates seem to have lesser salary and more and more of them do not even have a job and have to stay jobless for more than 6 moths.

Besides that, with the oil price rises higher and higher, people taking KTM,LRT,STAR are getting more and more. Then, with the prices to buy houses continue to rise and rise, how many of us can afford to buy a better house in KL?

What was worse, the writer argued that the upward social ladder seems to have disappeared - opportunities and fair competition become fewer and fewer. People in the lower class can no longer climb up the ladder: they cannot earn a high-paid job or have stable employment, even if they have a high level of education. The places in the upper class were reserved by the upper class for their descendants.

This indeed is very scary. Saudi Arabian prince alone can buy an A380 airbus but Malaysia don't even have money to buy an airbus yet. The shaping of M-society is getting clearer and clearer. Government should not be still running the racism favorship policy and should look deep into this matter. When the free-trade market become a reality in the future, we can no longer bar the wealthy giant oversea companies to invest in this country... We can no longer stop them from buying our local companies and lastly controling the whole MAlaysia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-shape_Society