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>Slave states work. GDP goes up. What's not to like? They work when they're sitting on a mountain of oil, or Singapore's equivalent: a shipping bottleneck. Sor
by iwwr 10y ago
>Slave states work. GDP goes up. What's not to like?
They work when they're sitting on a mountain of oil, or Singapore's equivalent: a shipping bottleneck. Sort-of, at some point corruption becomes intolerable, or the oil runs out (or becomes too cheap to pay for the oppression).
That said, the Singapore comparison may be a little far-fetched, they resemble the West far more than the totalitarian Middle East states.
- madelinecameron 10y agoPretty sure Singapore gives the death penalty to drug dealers. Maybe even drug users, but I do know at some point the minimum punishment for any drug dealing was death.
- PopsiclePete 10y agoYou're going to have to provide a lot more than that one example to show me that Singapore is a "totalitarian" state. Just recently the entire State of Louisiana's "Justice" system was shown to be in cahoots with the private prison industry, for example. And judging by the "Making a Murderer" documentary, our entire judicial process resembles a totalitarian police state circus much more than any other developed nation. Singapore is a "totalitarian" state? Fine, by your standards, the US is a 2nd rate Banana Republic.