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Re:Lee Kuan Yew, Founding Father and First Premier of Singap... by yen223 on Sunday March 22, 2015 @10:25PM (#9249177)
One could argue that Singapore's competitive advantage is that they can attract top talent from neighbouring countries by offering a better quality of life - which, anecdotally, is the case among my friends - in which case a Singapore with more equal rights might actually be stronger economically.
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Re:Lee Kuan Yew, Founding Father and First Premier of Singap... by ptaipale on Monday March 23, 2015 @06:21AM (#9250151)
Some of that quality of life is dependent on having cheap labour from neighbouring countries (and repressing any protests). Who washes the laundry quickly and efficiently at a low price, and serves at that nice restaurant?

For tech jobs talent, the immigrant status is different of course.

I'm not telling Singaporeans what to do, this is just for the note.

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