Singapore’s re-invention won’t be easy – but it doesn’t matter. Singapore has made mistakes in its attempt to push its economy in new directions....
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The myth of Singapore’s lack of resources
By managing people as numbers on a balance book, and using their control of the education system to value certain spheres of knowledge over others, the government has distorted the free will that drives market processes, and have suppressed the one thing that makes "human resource" truly valuable: our natural human ingenuity.
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