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Singapore isn't exactly huge. What's to stop someone from setting up Wimax in Johor Bahru (just across the border in Malaysia) and broadcasting the signal into Singapore?
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I'm going to ask for some more explanation of how China is more economically free than the US. What are my property rights like?
Well, its more free in that you canbribe people safe in the knowledge that this is how the ruling class have acted since Mao (maybe longer?). It's just a business transaction. You can also top up your milk's protein measurements by adding melamine, then use your bribing ability to shut down investigations into the dead babies. The fraud aspect is a greater freedom. Copy and steal overseas companies products and make…
Yes, you can do that if your idea of a good time is a date with a firing squad.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/24/china-executes-m...
Oops, the cool, tax-saving getaway is a fascist dictatorship. Who could have known.
It's generally well known that Singapore has no political freedom and only limited freedom of speech. However, financial freedom is in short supply in the world, and Singapore is one of the nicer places that have it. To call Singapore a "fascist dictatorship" is only true in the most literal senses of the words. It's by no means perfect, but Singapore has a much better record on human rights than anyone generally con…
Not only the literal sense, but also in any dictionary sense of the words. What you perhaps meant to say is that it doesn't have some of the secondary characteristics (e.g. starving peasants) that are usually connoted when the phrase "fascist dictatorships" is used.
Oops, the cool, tax-saving getaway is a fascist dictatorship. Who could have known.
Singapore and China are proof of two things: 1) Freedom is not a necessary condition for economic prosperity (which undermines a lot of American rhetoric of the last 50 years); 2) The global business community doesn't give a shit about democracy, as demonstrated by its rush to embrace China, the Middle East, etc, and the corresponding apologizing about their political systems. I nearly puked on Metro North the other…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
It is more than two timer lower than in my country and I consider our country rather poor on average.
Singapore is more complicated.
You know, tell them "thanks, you did a great job developing this country, but we would like to take it from here and control our own future...".
What would happen? Is there any way to do this that would be successful?
Oops, the cool, tax-saving getaway is a fascist dictatorship. Who could have known.
Get help.
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It's generally well known that Singapore has no political freedom and only limited freedom of speech. However, financial freedom is in short supply in the world, and Singapore is one of the nicer places that have it. To call Singapore a "fascist dictatorship" is only true in the most literal senses of the words. It's by no means perfect, but Singapore has a much better record on human rights than anyone generally con…
If a place "has no political freedom and only limited freedom of speech", as you say, then how it is better than Belarus?
This would be summarily impossible in Belarus: http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2013/05/mayday-protest-at-ho...
Oops, the cool, tax-saving getaway is a fascist dictatorship. Who could have known.
Singapore is comparable to Nazi Germany? Get help.
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Singapore and China are proof of two things: 1) Freedom is not a necessary condition for economic prosperity (which undermines a lot of American rhetoric of the last 50 years); 2) The global business community doesn't give a shit about democracy, as demonstrated by its rush to embrace China, the Middle East, etc, and the corresponding apologizing about their political systems. I nearly puked on Metro North the other…
> Freedom is not a necessary condition for economic prosperity (which undermines a lot of American rhetoric of the last 50 years) That is demonstrably false. Everywhere you look, throughout history, the more free a country is, the more economically prosperous it becomes. In fact, _every single example_ fits this pattern. There is not a single exception. China and Singapore are much more economically free than the US…
And your source is...? The eyeball test?