How did Singapore, a colony without fossils, become one of the richest countries in the world - we won't like the answer

"Want to be like Singapore? Be small and open. Be maritime. Invest in education. But first have a leader like Lee Kuan Yew.

 

Let's start with the fact that Singapore is (probably) an inimitable miracle of the world economy. And a pattern that is not easily categorized - one of the richest countries in the world in terms of income, but most of its people live in social housing. A paradise for the private sector, the first city in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of the number of fastest growing companies (93 out of 500), but at the same time a country whose state employees earn millions a year, the author writes on his FB account.

 

Want to know how much a budding minister in Singapore earns? The minimum salary starts at 1 million euros per year. And the formula is simple - take the median salary of the TOP 1000 highest earners in the country, cut off 40% as "the moral tribute of a servant" and you get that the country is ruled by patriots who have graduated from the best education facilities abroad. According to this formula, you arrange the salaries of other civil servants in the country - the starting prime minister will receive twice as much as the minister, and the rest - according to the corresponding coefficients.

 

For context: today, in the underground gallery of the subway, there was an advertisement near the restaurant, offering 3 thousand EUR to the manager of the restaurant, 2.5 thousand for a chef, and for dishwashers - 2.2 thousand EUR. Employees pay taxes themselves during the annual declarations, so you need to deduct another third of the amount and the amount "in hand" will remain.

 

Born out of a desire not to be a British colony and independent of the West, the country has chosen English as its lingua franca, which is used by all the traditional ethnic groups of the island - Chinese, Malay and Indian - to communicate with each other. That's if you're a stand-up comedian like Fakkah Fuzz, who makes fun of all ethnicities in English but constantly interjects Mandarin, Malay and Tamil words.

 

Today, The Strait Times, the main daily published by the ruling party, reports that the government has launched a new campaign to distribute vouchers. Each household will receive an additional SGD 300 (about €200) worth of vouchers to spend at hawkers, local markets and shops. Including the 500 SGD vouchers distributed to each household in January, this will inject nearly $2 billion into Singapore's economy this year. This should help reduce "rising living costs and an uncertain economic outlook".

 

Singaporean pigeons should also be concerned about their prospects from today, whose population has increased significantly after the pandemic and they have started to obscenely pollute the city. Therefore, in three parts of Singapore, pigeons will be caught and "humanely euthanized with carbon dioxide" or poisoned with alpha-chloralose. If the results are successful, pigeon extermination measures will be applied throughout the island from next year. And 10 k SDG fine will be given to the feeders of these birds from now on.”