If the ability to function in a hierarchy, at an inter-personal level, with respect and dignity is such a rare talent these days, then we have truly lost something valuable.

Oh, that’s right: never.

Anyone who does anything for me…whether I am paying them directly and per transaction or whether they are paid weekly and by an intermediate organization, I greet and thank. This “faceless and dehumanizing” dribble smacks of bourgeois egalitarian virtue signaling.

The author gets it more right in talking about relationship, but misses the true differentiator of the Singaporean case, which is a direct, one-to-one relationship ( which really disrupts the egalitarian signaling) as opposed to someone who works for many others, as well.

It would be interesting to examine how this reaction differs depending on the type and skill-level of the work being done (e.g. Emptying my home trashbins and folding my laundry versus tutoring my children in classical languages)