Comments on: Singapore After Lee Kuan Yew

By: Gaikokumaniakku

Gaikokumaniakku — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:50:18 +0000

Singapore wants to sign onto TPP. TPP is bad news. If Singapore embraces TPP, the USA’s plutocrats might “embrace and extinguish” Singapore.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 05:44:56 +0000

“The biggest impact on these change has been among women, who are playing an increasingly critical role in the local economy. Although most senior executives in the government and outside are male, the middle ranks, and many of the fastest up and comers, are female. Demographer Wolfgang Lutz notes that while Singapore may have strong pro-natalist policies, it still operates an economic system that encourages, even insists on, long hours for employees, many of whom are women.”

So, basically, Singaporean women are marrying corporations.

Interesting. But the 5 whys techniques requires that we keep asking.

Why are they choosing to marry corporations? Why is the income so important to them, vice finding a husband and becoming a family? (And we’re still only at why #2).

By: Rollory

Rollory — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 01:26:38 +0000

As reported on Heartiste a couple days back, the 2013 US Census reports that 70% of all men from 20 to 34 years of age are unmarried.

The civilized parts of the world have simply stopped having children. The uncivilized parts (Yemen, Pakistan, Nigeria for example) are having far too many; far more than they can support with their own technology and know-how.

The two bounds of possibility I see here are on the one hand that technology somehow bridges the problem; or on the other, in a hundred years or so the civilized world has collapsed from simple lack of people with qualified genetics, while the uncivilized world is in the midst of a slower-motion collapse involving mass starvation and emigration/invasion of less populated regions.