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Re:The cost of keeping Singapore squeaky clean by sampo on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:12AM (#18333968)
> Singapore is ruthlessly capitalist, and can be a terrible place to be if you're poor or a foreign worker.

Which Asian countries do you think have it better, in this respect, than Singapore?

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Re:The cost of keeping Singapore squeaky clean by jpatokal on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:42AM (#18334049)
Japan and Taiwan come to mind. What's kind of unique about Singapore in Asia is that it's very wealthy, yet its social safety net and worker protections are quite lacking.
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Re:The cost of keeping Singapore squeaky clean by nicholasluimy on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @11:27AM (#18337481)
lacking how? We do have supporting schemes for the lower income brackets
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