164) mice is nice Agree. times have changed, so have expectations. but higher expectation must comes with higher cost not being satisfied with things being done a few decades ago, and demanding progress, one must correspondingly expect to pay more for the better services. As much as we want our own pay to rise, so do the people employed to carry out the service and that will translate into higher cost which the end user must be prepared to pay. It is either that, or it get paid indirectly by taxpayers, regardless if the are users of that service. Decades ago, we are content with crummy boneshaker buses, much like what we see on TV in some 3rd world countries with passengers precariously hanging at the doors, and they come like once a week (joking) and the bus fare was max 50 cents. Now we have fully aircon buses, if they arrive 10 minutes late, the driver gets a warning if there is a complain, all these cannot come without a higher cost. Similarly the hospitals of time gone by are places you will not want to stay if you don’t have to. The C class wards can have 60 beds in a huge hall, no screens , no phone, no call button, no TV, no nothing. A sick person can yell all day for the nurse to come to his aid, and the poor guys in the surrounding beds have to endure his yell, all that for a grand sum of $4 per day. A plastic chair was a luxury. The visitors have no chairs. The better things we have now are possible because the past generations worked to make what we have today. To sustain it and make it even better will be what the present generation should works towards. We all have the right to higher expecation. But when some start thinking that it is a birth right just because they are born at a better time , then that it is really when the progress stops.