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Hope nobody finds my account but if you do, well, hello! 🌊

[黄加涵 @siuyukism]

https://t.co/0gQjZmFM7a

[stressed @onlystresstoday]

no friendship or relationship should be draining you. remember that.

[INTERIOR PORN @INTERIORPORN1]

imagine walking out of Mc Donald’s and you see this… insane

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

Gay men keep outperforming.
Higher education. Higher income.
Lower divorce rates. Stronger bodies.
But somehow... we're the ones who aren't "real men."

[nothing burger @tibertronyx]

This implies that the Merlion is the State Jinn of Singapore. Wouldn’t be surprised. Much to think about.

[黄加涵 @siuyukism]

And gelato from Tanjong Pagar

[黄加涵 @siuyukism]

Celebrated my 31st birthday at Brasserie Astoria Singapore.

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

Taking care of yourself at your lowest is the bravest thing you can do.

[黄加涵 @siuyukism]

Right…

[mika @mikasagrada]

A COVID-19 não foi há 3 anos.

Foi há 7 anos.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Lee Kuan Yew was a genius

[Hans senfuma @senfumahans]

It's sad that for some people, being LGBTQIA+ means you're no longer welcome in their religion. But hating LGBTQIA+ people, rejecting them, insulting them, beating them, imprisoning them, or even killing them somehow still counts as being on God’s path.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1965 Malaysia kicked Singapore out of the Malaysian federation, and Tunku Abdul Rahman thought he had won. He had dumped a port city with no oil, no farmland, no fresh water, and two and a half million people crammed onto an island smaller than Lake Tahoe. Sixty years later Singapore's GDP per capita runs past $84,000 while Malaysia limps along under $12,000. The man who got expelled built the richest patch of dirt in Asia. The man who did the expelling built the New Economic Policy.

Let's study what happened.

Start with what Singapore lacked. No resources. No hinterland. No domestic market worth the name. By every theory that says a nation needs raw materials to prosper, Singapore should have starved. Instead Lee Kuan Yew made his country a place where capital felt safe. Low tariffs. Easy entry for foreign firms. Courts that enforced contracts instead of shaking down the parties. Corporate tax dropped to 17 percent, personal rates capped at 22, no tax on most capital gains. Money flowed in because money is not stupid.

Malaysia chose the opposite. The New Economic Policy was racial central planning dressed up as fairness. Bumiputera quotas demanded that ethnic Malays hold 30 percent of corporate equity, that government contracts favor Malay-owned firms, that universities admit by race rather than ability. The state picked winners by bloodline. Predictably, the productive Chinese and Indian minorities took their capital and brains elsewhere, much of it to (where else) Singapore. You distort prices and incentives long enough, the talented people leave. They always leave.

Lee Kuan Yew was not perfect. The man jailed opponents, sued journalists into poverty, and ran a soft authoritarian state with a fondness for caning. He banned chewing gum, which is the kind of thing a control freak does when he runs out of real problems. Singapore is no libertarian paradise. The government owns Temasek and GIC, sovereign wealth funds sitting on close to a trillion dollars combined, and public housing covers 80 percent of the population. Plenty there for a free market thinker to dislike.

But here is the lesson Malaysia missed. Lee understood the difference between an interventionist government and a parasitic one. Singapore's state stayed mostly out of the price system. It kept inflation low, the currency credible, the bureaucracy clean, and trade open. Transparency International ranks it the fifth least corrupt country on earth. Malaysia sits at 57th, with a former prime minister, Najib Razak, currently serving time for looting 1MDB to the tune of billions. One country treated public office as a trust. The other treated it as a buffet.

Capital responds to incentives, not slogans. When Singapore guaranteed property rights and kept the rules predictable, Exxon and Shell built refineries, banks set up regional headquarters, and the port became the busiest transshipment hub in the world. When Malaysia told investors that race would override merit and that the rules could change whenever a minister felt like it, the smart money discounted everything by a risk premium. Over fifty years that premium compounds into a $70,000 gap in living standards.

[Zoso🇺🇳(🇮🇶) @MesoAnglic]

One of the most interesting countries to me right now is Malaysia. Despite its seemingly low nominal GDP per capita figure it is pretty close to having developed country living standards. It's also very spiritually English in a lot of ways.

[DarylTanky @DRTnky]

Came across a video of Singapore in 1979 on YouTube and it’s crazy to see how much our nation has transformed over the last 50 years

Sharing some photos that I captured from the video

1) Harbour Front
2) Bishan
3) Clark Quay
4) Old bus terminal

[Viscount Bukit Panjang @ViscountBP]

The last London Mayor that came to Singapore decided to chase lizard and take the MRT beside a confused unker and auntie.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

London 🤝 Singapore.

This is what it looks like when two global powerhouses unite.

Delighted to be here to bang the drum for London and supercharge the strong ties between our countries.

[黄加涵 @siuyukism]

They are known for being racist. Nothing new.