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我们到底在维持谁的永续?车资涨7%

当生活成本涨得比薪水快,我们如何做到“财务永续”?

新加坡最近的公共交通车资调整,让我们看到一个值得思考的问题:

什么才是真正的财务永续?

从2026年12月27日起,新加坡公共交通车资整体上调 7%。其中一个重要考虑,是工资、能源及营运成本上升,以及维持公共交通体系长期的财务永续。

这听起来合理。

但是,它也带出了另一个更贴近每个人的问题:

如果公共交通因为成本上涨,需要提高车资来维持财务永续,那么当我们的生活成本涨得比薪水快时,我们的财务永续怎么办?

什么是“财务永续”?

财务永续,不是今天有钱付账单就够了。

它真正的意思是:

长期拥有足够并持续的收入与资源,应付不断发生的开支,而不需要一直消耗自己的储蓄和未来。

对公共交通系统来说,如果工资、电力、维修及其他营运成本不断上涨,而收入没有相应增加,长期当然难以维持。

个人其实也一样。

假设你的薪水增加3%,但是生活成本增加5%。

表面上,你赚得比去年多了。

实际上,你的购买力却下降了。

你当然可以省钱。但是省钱也有极限。

我们不可能每年都吃少一点、用少一点、出门少一点,不断降低自己的生活品质。

到了某个程度,

连“省钱”本身都变得不可持续。

那么,我们如何做到财务永续?

基本上有三个方向。

第一,花得更好。
减少浪费,把钱用在真正能够创造价值的地方。

第二,赚得更好。
如果成本长期涨得比收入快,我们就必须提升自己的赚钱能力——提升技能、提高生产力、发展事业,甚至创造新的收入来源。

第三,建立财务韧性。
储蓄、适当投资和建立安全缓冲,让一次意外开支不会马上变成财务危机。

但公共交通的例子,其实还带出了一个更深层的问题。

我们到底在维持谁的永续?

如果公共交通经营者需要不断提高车资才能维持财务永续,而乘客的收入却追不上车资和其他生活成本的上涨,那么:

永续的问题并没有消失。

只是部分压力从一个人,转移给另一个人。

所以,真正的永续不能只看一个单位。

公共交通的永续,需要同时考虑经营者、员工、乘客、纳税人与政府。

企业的永续,也不能只看股东利润,还必须考虑员工、客户、供应商与社会。

个人的财务永续,则必须平衡今天的生活与明天的保障。

真正的财务永续,不是把不断上涨的成本一直转嫁给别人。

而是不断寻找新的方法:

让我们创造价值的速度,长期超过消耗资源的速度。

所以下一次,当我们听到有人说:

“这是为了财务永续。”

也许应该多问一句:

我们到底在维持谁的永续?

因为:

如果我的永续,需要不断牺牲你的永续,最终,我们两个人都无法永续。

吴林朔 财富与战略顾问

 

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