Flash forward to the present: Kids nowadays are more materialistic because let's face it, Apple products aren't cheap!
Adults on the other hand are faced with the dilemma of whether to increase the content of the red packets. Why? Well, a tradition of well-wishes has now because a form of extortion, which (although unspoken, it kinda) translate to: Show me the money or I'll curse you for the rest of the year!
Yup, that's right folks. Kids now have the right to curse your marriage if you don't shower them with
Unlike the good ol' days where kids are content with any amount they receive in those little red envelopes, modern-day kids are most likely to tear those things open in excitement and reveal its contents. When the amount is not what they expected it to be, say RM1, they will downright call you stingy and hope that the stingy bastard (meaning you) will have a bad year, or a bad marriage (since those who are eligible to give red packets have to be married couple). Parents of those children are really not helping to ease the situation either.
"Since they only give my kid X amount this year, we should give them the same amount next year."
When kids receive their red packets, they are now told by their parents to write down the name of the person who gave the red packet to them on the red envelope itself. So that when their kids open the red packet, they will know how much their children receive from who? Then karma will be a bitch next year.
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