The reasons why Indonesian business is MUCH BETTER compared to Australian business:
1. Australia has much less population. In Jakarta, if you can get a profit of $1 for every product and you can reach 1 millon people (Jakarta itself has more than 20 million people), that is a profit of 1 million dollars per day.
2. Tax is almost negligible, it can go to 10%, some 35%, but you can also get away from tax or with very little tax, if you know what to do or if you know people how to deal with tax. Whereas in Australia if the profit is big, you will be taxed 50%, some even 65%, you can say that you can hardly get away with tax.
2. Distance to the shops for every person is quite far.
3. Distance between shops is far, and the road is hilly, hardly good to walk on them. A few have slop of 60 degrees! (where 90 degrees would very completely vertical).
4. Most of the crowded place, it is very hard to find parking and if you park, it would be quite a distance to the shop you want (and I mentioned above that it is very hilly, hard to walk).
5. Australia has much less opening hours for shops, they close 5pm weekdays and only 9pm at most for a maximum of once a week. As most Australians work and finish well after 5pm, it makes it hard for them to shop, even if the shop opens until 7, it would be pushing it to make it to the shops.
6. Only very few shops such as Officeworks opens until 7, so there are not many options.
7. Because only few shops available, the variety of products available is limited. As a rule, the more shops the more variety because every shop has only a few sources and some shops may know certain sources but not all shops know all sources. This is different from Indonesia. Because there are many shops, there are much more variety. Also because Indonesia shops open until 10pm mostly, and some of them 9pm, but 7 days per week Monday to Sunday.
8. Australia is very strict. If it is Officeworks, you are not allowed to sell certain types of products. Whereas in Indonesia is much more flexible. You can sell products that is not meant for your shops, so because of this, the chance of variety has increased. And because Australia is very strict and only very few shops open after hours, you have even less variety to shop.
9. At the end Australians give up because too tired because of work and not many shops open, they prefer 'Mind over matter'. Of course Australians say that because there is no other options.
10. Products are very expensive, but instead of getting a lot of income, people choose not to buy instead of buying them. 'Mind over matter'.
11. Although the products are very expensive, the quality is much inferior compared to products in Indonesia. Let's face it, Australia couldn't even produce a proper door, any tools, they are all imported from other countries. They are too busy maintaining their homes and the country, they couldn't do anything right, let alone to produce quality product.
12. You can't compare the food production in Australia to Indonesia. In Indonesia, a particular small city might have dozens of authentic food of the region, and there are almost thousands small cities in Indonesia because of the great population. Food invention is almost everyday thing because food is very important and a very profitable business. In Australia, there is no such thing as Australian food, probably the only thing is Fish and Chips but then it even may not be invented by Australians either, AND the Fish and Chips in Australia don't have any flavour, they even forget to put SALT on it, I told you these people can't produce quality products. The Asian food in Australia is quite rare too and can only be found in a few places whereas we have hundreds of days every year and we eat 3 times a day.
13. Labor in Indonesia is much cheaper, so it is possible to have 10 staffs just for a small shop. And it is not rare that the 3 staffs are waiting on just one customer, smiling and chatting about the product of interest. Whereas in Australia, the staffs are rude, they barely know anything, probably would just ask you to go home to check on the Internet and go back to the shop again and buy the product. You hardly enjoy shopping or eating out in Australia because of this, and also the quality is quite bad. Yes, and then they would say 'Mind over matter'. How convenient.
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You're either being quite satirical or you're actually very passionately serious about these issues. I take it from your other posts recently that you're more passionate than you are satirical. Either is fine, however if you are serious about these 'flaws' then you had better get some of your facts right first.
Firstly, you say that taxes in Australia are too high, particularly for those who earn a lot of money. You've suggested that the figure is anywhere between 50-65% of gross income being lost to tax. You've then stated in point 2 that in Indonesia "...you can also get away from tax or with very little tax, if you know what to do or if you know people how to deal with tax." In Australia the wealthy pay Accountants to minimise their tax for them. Your complaint that taxes are too high and there's nothing to do about it is unfounded.
Secondly you point out that people in Australia do not make purchases on products because it's too hard to find any shops open at a later hour. You've neglected to mention that most people do their shopping either during their lunch hours or on weekends. In 2001/02 the Queensland government introduced Sunday shopping as well. So again, your argument that there's no options is also unfounded.
Thirdly you've complained that there is no such thing as 'Aussie food'. Then you point out that 'Fish and Chips' is probably the only thing. You would be very wrong about that - 'Fish and Chips' is an English invention. Australians also eat 'Fish and Chips' due to their English heritage. And the argument that there is no 'Aussie food' is also flawed. There are many fine-dining restaurants which specialise in 'Contemporary Australian Cuisine' which I'm sure, by your vast generalisations, you were not willing to research.
Keep checking your facts.
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