🇲🇻 Let’s talk about how rising USD rates affect ordinary Maldivians.
It’s more than just a number — it hits your groceries, rent, and monthly expenses.
Here’s a breakdown
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Flying over the Maldives, I finally understood firsthand the metaphor of “a pearl necklace scattered across the Indian Ocean”—revealing a grandeur and beauty so unmatched and breathtaking, it defies all earthly measure.
You have a family to feed and give time
Never volunteer for gov.
Never work for free for gov.
Don’t work for a minute without getting paid. Always ask for pay, OT. Make this a habit.
It will be the political appointees who’ll get all credits for your hard work.
Get written confirmation that you’ll be getting OT for every little work you do.
Western politicians will try to make you feel more outraged about a targeted response by Iran aimed at military targets with 2 hours warning than 12-months of indiscriminate bombardment of civilians, with no air defence system or bunkers, and with nowhere to run.
Don’t let them.
Vehicle import rate higher than birth rate. Everyone has a vehicle. Only 10% people can drive a car properly. Roughly 30% can ride a motorbike properly by following rules. Less than 1% know Hulhumale’ roundabout rules.
Basically we have a dumb, uneducated & uncivilised society that doesn’t respect traffic rules.