It all depends on your definitions. Income gaps are widened in
practically every country involved in global economy, we don't see
any social unrest that is directly related to income gaps. Look at
the countries with social unrest in recent history, unrest resulted
from corruption of officials, dictatorship, intolerance due to
religious belief. Unless the poor really have no chance of a decent
living, then they also don't care how high your income is, unrest,
especially against the so called higher spectrum of the
society.
What is overpopulation? when there isn't enough housing, food
supplies, hospitals and infra structures to cater for the
population, even 2 million is overpopulated. If there are enough
space created for 5 million, there is no overpopulation. Why should
over population cause tension among races? some specific race not
treated equally, left behind in the development?
Hatred of FT, hmmm...very popular subject, what is Foreign
Talent to you? the indian construction workers, the kopi xiao mei
from PRC, the pinoy salesgirls, or the australia accountant,
american executives, the british engineers?
In the history of singapore, after independence, we experienced
the british withdrawal in the 70s, we survived the asian financial
crisis, we went through the impact of the us subprime crisis....
LHL said we are still a sampan, the sea is still choppy, tell us
about the rocking boat. but we will live on, happily，兵来将挡，水来土掩。
we are cool.
