I have had a new point of view, a consciousness towards the workings of an administration and management
-- by a game!

Now, they say that games has been a bane, a back step on human progress. We may notice that with years gameplays and graphics has and will enhance. However, what we have failed to notice that whereas these fields progress, the aim can also progress towards benefitting us itself in ways other than relaxation and anger management.

I started playing SimCity 4 the other day and wow, I guess it really made me rethink all the way. I know that managing a city isn't easy. But the fact is, I was wrong. It's hard, very hard. Where you think that your giving people free education to make the citizens smarter, you have to look at your budget and ensure the financial statement is happy. It's not always you can make a welfare state and not have bad implications. Costs are huge burdens where you would have to replace it another way. And why do you need to? Well you want to make investments in other sectors. Plotting lands for commercial and industrial uses where money are of huge concerns. Plotting the land itself can be very costly and then there's the matter of time for investors to come.

You see, there are no hints or tricks on managing a city or country.It's all on thinking. Taxes can burden you by halting commercial, residential, and industrial increase but if there's no taxes then how are you suppose to make profit? Profit is the core of it. Okay I'm beginning to sound like a capitalist but it's true. If you don't have profit then you have loss. If you have losses then you budget shrinks. And without any profit it shrinks all the way until you have to fork out loans and increase taxes!

So I guess I was wrong all these while. Running a country isn't easy and I guess we all have been looking the wrong way. We expect too much as citizens and when what we want are not achieve, we start the blame game and come out with conclusions of our own where the product is not certain. And it is in these cases that uncertain investments and ways are simply unacceptable.

After that we get angry and start protesting everywhere saying the administration should be giving cheaper oil prices and etc etc where we ourselves are not knowledgeable enough in those areas. We talk like Aristotle and Plate while we forget that they say because of their knowledge, not just their belief and ideas. Their ideas are born through their knowledge. It does not go the other way. When it does its called third world thinking!

But that does not mean I'm on the goverment side. Because somewhere along the lines, our leaders has implimented cronism, bribary and unjustified methods of governing! And this is what weakens our country! I shall blog more later on that issue. Heh, I don't feel like vacationing in the ISA detention( if you get what I mean)

Haha, trylah SimCity 4! Its goooood ;)