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Daniel Kyne's avatar

"The secret is that there is no secret; Singapore simply tries." 🥲

Excellent line!

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Peter P Nolan's avatar

Singapore government is truly world-beating in many areas, water and environmental management, public-health, transport infrastructure and public order, and as a high-earning foreigner, it may seem like utopia. However, kaisu is problem, it is more a paralysing fear of not conforming and of taking risks. That the government came once a quarter to inspect my toilet bowl was a surprise to me and symbolic of a cowed citizenry and stunted civil society. Go into a Starbucks on Orchard Road at 2am on Sunday morning and half those sitting down will be reading marketing textbooks.

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