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Fun fact: chewing gum is illegal in Singapore. It is a strange place.
by slantaclaus 10y ago
Fun fact: chewing gum is illegal in Singapore. It is a strange place.
- qball 10y agoWhen you want to have a mega-city, you need to make some compromises. The bigger the city, the more you need to restrict citizens from affecting others. The inconvenient truth about liberalism is that it doesn't scale as well as authoritarianism does. Human nature is a limiting factor and corporate humanity hasn't any good solutions aside from "pass more restrictions". So giving your citizenry the ability to trigger others when your society is inherently unstable is obviously a bad thing. This is also the Twitter problem- turns out that when you put the entire world in a room with each other, political and cultural differences tend to make that room a particularly bad place to have any meaningful discussion (unless you consider lynch mobs 'meaningful'). Allowing people to disrupt others has a heavy price because they leave before they talk or click your ads. Of course, because there's no opportunity for disruption, there's also no room for innovation or growth, life is lame (yet stable) for an unusually wide cross-section of individuals, and your best and brightest move to countries that still allow and encourage the diversity they need to succeed. But that's beside the point.
- slantaclaus 10y agoOh yeah, Singapore's overpaid public sector jobs also drain a lot of talent from the private sector. ^^