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Re:The case of a maid who battled a millionaire has gripped ... by scoutt on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:05AM (#24564302)
I spent some time in Singapore. A thing I noticed is that if you stay long enough after dinner, you can see a lot of buses loading people in the city alleys and then slowly moving out from the city. When I asked I was told that these are most of the city employees going back home in Malaysia. It was late, and I imagined that these people may sleep just a couple of hours before coming back for the opening the shops in the morning.

In the meantime there were at least 3 Ferraris and a couple of Lamborghinis going back and forth over Orchard road.

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Re:The case of a maid who battled a millionaire has gripped ... by throwawaysgx on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @07:25AM (#24565660)
Another example of how Singapore treat low pay foreign workers:

So in a car, you're supposed to wear your seat belt, right? It's normally a traffic offence, but not if you're transporting construction workers at the back of a truck[1]. It's perfectly fine to make them live in a room with 12 other workers, with limited toilet and kitchen capacity. It's fine to ignore them when COVID-19 hit, until it's no longer possible to do so[2]. Singapore is built by the workers, and they're considered disposable by the system.

[1] https://citiesofmigration.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IMG_...

[2] https://www.arabnews.com/node/1655741/world

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