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I'd rather not live in a police state, and I think I speak for many Americans when I say that. Singapore can kind of get away with it because it is so small, bu
by riversflow 4y ago
I'd rather not live in a police state, and I think I speak for many Americans when I say that. Singapore can kind of get away with it because it is so small, but we can see what it looks like when scaled to a large country by looking at Modern China. I'll take some crime and something less than stellar education, as a national average, than have to contend with a government who welds people in their apartments, creates "reeducation camps" for minorities, and disappears business leaders.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoHas Singapore government evwr welded people on their apsrtments? What is thw basis for this comparison? Why would providing better education in America lead to people being welded into their apartment? Is freedom only possible with incompetwnt governance?
- glompers 4y agoAuthor Leopold Kohr's twentieth century books argued that bigness and scaling are a major problem for freedom, and so insoluble that it's better not to keep attempting to manage bigness. Riversflow was arguing here, correct me if I'm wrong, that some nations find it insoluble to unwind various kinds of bigness, and that none of those nations can make an attempt to emulate a nation that has managed its society without the scale factor at which they, USA included, already exist.
- detourdog 4y agoIn college I had a friend from Singapore. After graduation he felt his plight was that he wasn't an American and he was no longer Singaporesse<sp?>. He was unable to land a job in America and had to go back to Singapore. He was sad.
- warning26 4y ago“China is Singapore but bigger” is kind of a bizarre take. If you don’t like Singapore’s policies fine, but randomly equating them to China seems overly simplistic.