Here's a well-timed debate. In the runup to Christmas, the traditional season of generosity and good will to all, the citizens of Hong Kong have been arguing the rights and wrongs of their government's pending proposal to cut the minimum wage of foreign (mostly Filipino) domestic workers for the second time in three years.
Why do employers and legislators want to do this? So that those at the very bottom of the Special Administrative Region's socioeconomic scale can "share the burden of (the current) economic downturn," says Mr. Joseph Law, vice chairman of the Hong Kong Employers of Overseas Domestic Helpers' Association.
Mr. Law's words are worthy of Christmas killjoys from Scrooge to the Grinch.