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Signapore is a terribly bad example. It's geography meant it was a ready source of money. Barring an absolutely terrible level of mismanagement, or chronic worl
by anovikov 4y ago
Signapore is a terribly bad example. It's geography meant it was a ready source of money. Barring an absolutely terrible level of mismanagement, or chronic worldwide economic depression, there was no way it won't become rich.
- rayiner 4y agoThere’s nothing magic about the geography of Singapore, which is self-evident from a map. Singapore was poorer than Malaysia when the two countries split. The notion that the economic fate of countries is outside their control is incredibly pernicious. Britain went from being a backwater that was almost a millennium late to the Bronze Age to the greatest empire in the world.