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I’m convinced that anyone that points to sg as an example of but an anecdote about itself knows nothing about anything basically. Singapora is amazing to visit

I’m convinced that anyone that points to sg as an example of but an anecdote about itself knows nothing about anything basically. Singapora is amazing to visit but you would never catch me living there. It truly is Disney-like. Between the slave class that comes out at 22:30 and the fact that the country doesn’t exist without China shipping future landfill material around the world it’s just its own thing. I look forward to going back, but it’s not a place that works anywhere except right there and for it’s reasons.

jhanschoo 3y ago
> Between the slave class that comes out at 22:30 Correct me if I misunderstand, and for clarification to other responders, but I believe this is referring to the class of foreign laborers (most visible as young men working hard manual labor and women working domestic labor) which Singapore employs on a temporary, long-term basis from less prosperous countries.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
  The people that come out with pressure washers every single night and spray everything, from my casual investigate were at least mostly born there, some Indonesian and Malay I talked to. The constructions workers, were almost all Indonesian. A lot of Malay working kitchens and manual labor. All of Asia shuts down at 2200 or so; except Borneo oddly. But in Singapore it was crazy just how many people with pressure washers there were, in an every night routine deep cleaning.
  - jhanschoo 3y ago
    Considering the racial makeup for these jobs that you just mentioned, I think you are generalizing quite strongly from your experience. (edit: In my experience those in the food service industry is also Chinese-dominated, e.g. in hawker centers. Note that halal kitchens tend to be Malay-dominated.) I don't think there is anything sinister about one of the most developed economies and cities being a city that doesn't sleep.

jhanschoo 3y ago

> Between the slave class that comes out at 22:30 Correct me if I misunderstand, and for clarification to other responders, but I believe this is referring to the class of foreign laborers (most visible as young men working hard manual labor and women working domestic labor) which Singapore employs on a temporary, long-term basis from less prosperous countries.

SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
The people that come out with pressure washers every single night and spray everything, from my casual investigate were at least mostly born there, some Indonesian and Malay I talked to. The constructions workers, were almost all Indonesian. A lot of Malay working kitchens and manual labor. All of Asia shuts down at 2200 or so; except Borneo oddly. But in Singapore it was crazy just how many people with pressure washers there were, in an every night routine deep cleaning.
- jhanschoo 3y ago
  Considering the racial makeup for these jobs that you just mentioned, I think you are generalizing quite strongly from your experience. (edit: In my experience those in the food service industry is also Chinese-dominated, e.g. in hawker centers. Note that halal kitchens tend to be Malay-dominated.) I don't think there is anything sinister about one of the most developed economies and cities being a city that doesn't sleep.