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Singapore has always been super anti personal vehicle... they have a big excise tax on personal vehicles. Far removed from the context of America where everyone
by simisimiailah 7y ago
Singapore has always been super anti personal vehicle... they have a big excise tax on personal vehicles. Far removed from the context of America where everyone has a car
- ptah 7y agopossibly to do with their deeply socialist ethos
- CaptainZapp 7y agopossibly to do with their deeply socialist ethos No, it has to do with the fact that Singapore is a small place, which would completely choke if they would not restrict the use of private cars via heavy levies. And regarding socialist ethos: Singapore is, arguably, the most capitalist and business friendly place in the world.
- ptah 7y agosocialism is not business unfriendly. china is super business friendly
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoYou're confusing socialism with 'government involvement' -- admittedly a mistake many Americans seem to make. 'Socialism' in the classical sense is definitely business unfriendly. Its foundation is a critique of private ownership of factories, workplaces, and other 'means of production' Socialism means social management of the economy. That need not involve the state at all. And it may not describe China at all, depending on your definition of 'social', regardless of what the Communist Party says about itself. "Socialist" certainly does not describe Singapore, which neither calls itself socialist, nor acts socialist.
- H4t5YVm4aP 7y ago"Socialism is when the government does things"
- imtringued 7y agoChina took off as soon as they added capitalistic laws.
- ptah 7y agoalso explain to me how their blocking of EV's is business friendly
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoThat is one subset of one industry. You don't have to be friends with everyone to have lots of friends.
- PeterStuer 7y agoOr maybe they are just more visionary and resist the detrimental decline of the environmental commons spiral that comes with a private car ownership based mobility model.
- grumpydba 7y agoIt's all about the density of this state/city which makes individual car ownership pretty impractical. I don't think teslas are needed in Singapore, but it doesn't mean they are not needed elsewhere. I think SGP's PM is a bit too focused on his country to judge that.
- graeme 7y agoWouldn't it be the other way around? Singapore got built dense because they had anti-car attitudes. Singapore has grown 4x since 1960. A lot of infrastructure and housing got built in that time. American cities in the era built themselves into a corner with auto-sprawl, Singapore didn't.
- clouddrover 7y ago> Singapore got built dense because they had anti-car attitudes. No. Singapore doesn't have enough land to do anything other than high-density building.
- mtts 7y agoThey could have built it much less dense than they did. It’s a very green city. It’s also hard to imagine a place with better public transportation.
- clouddrover 7y ago> They could have built it much less dense than they did. Only if they don't want any economic future. You're not thinking long term.