Yes it is fair.

Who said about other poor people needed to die?
We have Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat, Baitulmal (non muslim can apply)
and many more govt and NGO bodies to help them.

You are propagating here that the Poor Non Bumi should not be helped?
It is a false accusation.

And why I think this is fair?
This graph from this study explains why

Population shares of ethnic groups in each percentile, 2002 (pre-tax national income)


Until we make the line between red and blue horizontally flat (red group have more rich than poor compared to blue group and vice versa),
we will not achieve racial/religious unity that is 100% essential to our economy.

Let's understand your argument first on
Affirmative action as it is currently only benefits the rich and connected bumis.

So it does not benefits the poor and unconnected? I believe that is false.

On your second argument,
With needs based policy, poor bumis will naturally gets a bigger share of the affirmative pie by nature they are the largest segment of B40. How is that not balancing the wealth gap?

I believe no. Here is why.

For example,
Poor Hashim gets a bigger share in tongkat (let's use this word to sum up Bumi benefit's).
Poor Ikau also gets a bigger share too like Poor Hashim
Poor Jibeh also gets a bigger share like those two.

So Poor Hashim, Poor Ikau and Poor Jibeh decided to start a business.
With proper training because of tongkat, they are smart enough to open up one.
With proper loans, they would be able to set up a shop

But
Poor Hashim lives in a fishing village, he does not know any Moderate Income or Rich people personally, just poor like him in his area
Poor Ikau also lives in a longhouse the rural area, he hardly can speak English so his business have communication limitation
Poor Jibeh lives in the highlands village and he lacks the roads to connect his shop for supplies and such.

Now,
Poor Hashim, Poor Ikau and Poor Jibeh have limits to their business and such tongkat can only bring them that far
Even if they work hard, their business would just be limited to their area, language, ethic groups or religious clusters

Maybe in 2-3 generations, their offspring would be educated at least on a diploma level or even a degree level.
Then again, there is no guarantee that these 3 poor fellas families would escape the generational poverty cycle.

But what if the Tongkat policy is based on races?

Poor Hashim would still be poor?
Maybe.

But Poor Ikau might know someone who is Moderate Income Akun.
So Moderate Income Akun have the extra money to help Poor Ikau under his wings
until Poor Ikau have the fluent way to communicate not only in English but also in Mandarin
Moderate Income Akun is a mentor to Poor Ikau in business since they share the same language, religion and ethnicity
As time pass by Poor Ikau becomes Moderate Income Ikau.

Poor Jibeh still having difficulties in getting supplies and this is where Rich Gonolon comes in
Seeing that he can sell his product in Poor Jibeh's village which shares the same language, religion and ethnicity with him
Rich Gonolon set up a shop there and helped Poor Jibeh in getting his supplies by sharing his lorry.
As time pass by, Rich Gonolon is able to help other villagers in getting supplies so in time
Poor Jibeh village have more people setting up all sorts of businesses,

Back to Poor Hashim, tongkat does not work for him no matter how hard he works
But Poor Hashim stike a goldmine
He met Rich Ahmad's daughter and fell in love.
They get married and Poor Hashim moved out from his village and works for Rich Ahmad
Now me is Moderate Income Hashim

So,
would Rich Gonolon help Poor Hashim?
Certainly not, they don't share any connection

Would Moderate Income Akun help Poor Jibeh?
Nope, they are way socially segregated to even have a chance to meet

Would Rich Syed help Poor Hashim when Poor Hashim called him to ask for help.
Probably yes, because they share the same language, religion and ethnicity