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Doesn't Singapore run on $1/hr workers from other countries? It has much higher inequality than Japan.
by x87678r 6y ago
Doesn't Singapore run on $1/hr workers from other countries? It has much higher inequality than Japan.
- eru 6y agoGlobal inequality doesn't go away just because we close our eyes to it. Yes, Singapore has special visas for people to come as construction workers or maids. Some Google suggests they make about 800 SGD/month in basic pay in construction Alas, if Singapore wouldn't hire them, not only would the city lose out on infrastructure projects, but the construction workers would lose out on high paying jobs. (High paying relative to the alternatives for them.) Yes, not hiring them would technically decrease measured inflation in Singapore, but that would be functionally equivalent to deporting your poor people in an effort to decrease measured inequality inside your borders.
- x87678r 6y agoI have no problem with how Singapore operates. I thought the post above me said "I'd like to think that cities / countries of the future have lower inequality". I thought Singapore was a poor example of that.
- eru 6y agoMaybe. Though I interpreted that as implying "places of the future help combat inequality" (like that particular policy of Singapore arguably does), not "places of the future sweep inequality under the rug". There are other policies in Singapore that you can argue increase inequality. But giving poor foreigner a chance sort-of does the opposite.