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The article also talks about Eduardo Saverin, born Brazilian, become American, then renounced in favor of Singapore.

• bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  I'm not sure I am convinced that Saverin should have renounced, I think that decision may end up a modern example of Solon's advice to Croesus, but maybe that is just my western liberal prejudice against Singapore coming through.
  • CryptoPunk 5y ago
    He saved a massive amount on capital gains tax, and any possible wealth tax that might be created in the US in the future.
    • bryanrasmussen 5y ago
      yes, I'm aware of his wealth, hence my referring to Solon and Croesus.
      • CryptoPunk 5y ago
        Ah, gotcha
  • krageon 5y ago
    > my western liberal prejudice against Singapore What is there to be prejudiced against for Singapore? It is a singularly good place to live by basically every metric an actual human being could care about. Low crime, clean, high resident satisfaction, good schools, etc.
    • bryanrasmussen 5y ago
      hmm, well there we can see I was wrong, I just went to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index I was sure Singapore was registered as a Hybrid regime but I can see it is listed as a flawed democracy, if that's correct and I guess I'll assume it is as I'm not planning to move there anyway then there isn't a reason to hold anything against them, given that very few countries are better than flawed Democracy. on edit: still criminal system seems overly harsh.