Reflection On Article.

This article is about the issue of whether setting up a casino is a wise choice for Singapore. I believe that setting up a casino in Singapore will not benefit the people of Singapore much. However, there are some benefits of setting up a casino. When the casino is completed, the world will gain more recognition as a first-world country, and there will be more tourists visiting Singapore because of the casino, and as there are more tourists, their expenditures will contribute to the economy of Singapore. However, there are many disadvantages of setting up a casino too.
I agree with the article's author that setting up the casino is not a wise choice because there will be people addicted to gambling, and eventually, they may become bankrupt and become a social and financial liability. Even though the government suggested ways to prevent people from becoming a social burden like not allowing lower-income citizens to enter the casino, but this "solution" will not work because Greed is a human nature, and even the high-income earners and gamble all their money away in the hope of winning. The government's next solution is to provide "treatment" and "education" to those susceptible to gambling, but they do not understand the agony of those next of kins of those hardcore gamblers.
In the short run, the government would gain a fortune from the people who gambles in the casino, and from the tourists' expenditure in Singapore, but in the long run, the economy of singapore will drop because there will be many cases of bankruptcy, and many people would be jobless, which will be a big impact on Singapore. Furthermore, when gamblers are almost bankrupt, they will try to recoup their losses by borrowing money from people both legally and illegally, and they will go back to the casino to "try their luck"again, and this is a vicious cycle as they will never repay their debts.
Thus, in conclusion, I urge the government to seriously consider the loss they and the people will suffer from the casino, and desist from a course of action that may well be the beginning of our undoing.

Chong Xin Yong (3B)