The success of the Singapore economy was compared with the plot of the fairy tale "Porridge from the ax"

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In a liberal environment, it is customary to set an example of an economic miracle such a state as the 6 millionth Singapore. The main liberal message is this: the state does not interfere in the economy, because the economy is flourishing, bringing incredible investment.

The success of the Singapore economy was compared with the plot of the fairy tale "Porridge from the ax"




The program "Simple Numbers" decided to deal with the issue of the miracle of the Singaporean economy. They decided to start with the fact that Singapore was not a backward country even more than half a century ago. Its economy (in terms of GDP per capita in the 60-s of the XX century) was ahead of the economies of several European countries, including Portugal and Spain.

Singapore's success in those years was largely due to the fact that Britain used it as its outpost in Southeast Asia, the largest maritime trade routes passed and continue to pass through Singapore.

According to expert Oleg Komolov, after the British, the United States played a role in Singapore. If in the USSR, the Baltic republics were turned into a "window of socialism", then the United States used similar methods for individual countries in different parts of the world. Singapore, not without economic support from the West, including not without the American printing press, turned out to be a supersuccessful “capitalist showcase”. In fact, Singapore owes its development to foreign capital, foreign support.

Analysis of the development of the Singapore economy, the success of which resembles the plot of the fairy tale “Porridge from the Ax”, offers the channel of Konstantin Semin

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  1. +7
    20 September 2019 12: 01
    our dreamers like to cite Singapore as an example, only if such orders were introduced in Russia, they would shout about totalitarianism with foam at the mouth
    1. -3
      20 September 2019 13: 16
      Quote: fruit_cake
      In a liberal environment, it is customary to set an example of an economic miracle as a state such as the 6 millionth Singapore.

      Exactly, we need to put Chelyabinsk with the region as an example. Liberda why take it from her ...
      1. 0
        23 September 2019 12: 32
        Let the best put Yekaterinburg.
  2. +4
    20 September 2019 12: 03
    I would not call Singapore any ultra-liberal state. Everything is quite tough there.
  3. +3
    20 September 2019 12: 26
    Send the liberals to Singapore and let them try to at least pickle there.
    1. +2
      20 September 2019 12: 30
      Or fart, which is even worse! There, for "spoiling" the air and "close" really can. lol
  4. +7
    20 September 2019 12: 27
    Singapore is a classic corporation disguised as a state; within the state borders, it owns everything from land and population to finance and management. Within the framework of this system, everything is built and verified and works like a clock with external recharge and favorable conditions, remove recharge and aggravate the situation with threats, what will be the result? Maybe not very bright. For example, we have Gazprom Corporation, inside they have everything in chocolate and salaries and bonuses, projects and economic indicators, and if you pull out the state with patronage from Gazprom and put it into operation, the whole miracle will end.
    1. +3
      20 September 2019 23: 03
      “To fight corruption, start by planting your three friends. You know exactly why, and they know why. ”

      Lee Kuan Yew - First Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1959 — 1990)
  5. +3
    20 September 2019 12: 29
    I was in Singapore, the prices there are crazy, the city is crowded. To buy a car worth 10 thousand dollars, you need to pay taxes more than 100 thousand dollars. No desire to settle there permanently arose. And I don’t know how one city and giant Russia can be compared.
    1. -1
      20 September 2019 14: 17
      Quote: Bodypuncher
      prices are crazy there
      There, salaries are crazy by Russian standards.
      Quote: Bodypuncher
      To buy a car worth 10 thousand dollars, you need to pay taxes more than 100 thousand dollars.
      Why a car in a country with developed public transport ?!
      1. -1
        23 September 2019 08: 48
        These are my personal impressions; I would not want to live in Singapore. Giant human anthill.
        1. 0
          24 September 2019 15: 28
          I’ve been to Singapore three times, there was no feeling of crowding and overpopulation like in Moscow or St. Petersburg, apparently the buildings, roads and transport were well-planned.
  6. +2
    20 September 2019 12: 46
    To wean spit on the ground, the police used a baton. Weaned.
  7. +1
    20 September 2019 12: 48
    AND! Free city of Chernomorsk! I read ... "Briand is the head!"
  8. -2
    20 September 2019 14: 24
    Quote: Greenwood
    Quote: Bodypuncher
    prices are crazy there
    There, salaries are crazy by Russian standards.
    Quote: Bodypuncher
    To buy a car worth 10 thousand dollars, you need to pay taxes more than 100 thousand dollars.
    Why a car in a country with developed public transport ?!

    Well, prices know a relative thing. We are also not much lower than in Singapore. People live like that. True, like cf. salary 3000 dollars per month Frankly, this is clearly not enough. ... Although, as in Russia, you can buy an apartment for 100 months of salaries Yes
    Not gorgeous, just "hut".
    1. 0
      20 September 2019 16: 32
      Quote: Shahno
      . Although, like you in Russia, you can buy an apartment for 100 months of salaries


      $ 3000 per month - this is normal (rather starting salary for the USA)
      For the Russian Federation, valuable specialists begin now from 100-150 thousand rubles. only in the richest cities
      this in terms of is 100000 / 64 = about $ 1500
      but housing prices are a completely different thing. in the ghettos, which we call sleeping areas,
      a meter costs 80-110 thousand rubles.
      If, again, we take the western norms on the area (on one about 70m2)
      it turns out that the minimum housing, called "normal" in the cheapest area stands for a specialist who doesn’t eat and drink and lives under a tree, about 70 * 100/100 = 70 payouts.
      and this is 70/12 = 6 years of work.

      in reality, with high rental prices, underestimation of payments by employers and forced job changes, inflation, high interest rates, a simple "western" apartment can be earned by a simple specialist in about 12-15 years, if you do not support a family.
      with the family, saving up for normal housing becomes unrealistic.
      1. 0
        22 September 2019 19: 45
        Quote: yehat
        Quote: Shahno
        . Although, like you in Russia, you can buy an apartment for 100 months of salaries


        $ 3000 per month - this is normal (rather starting salary for the USA)
        For the Russian Federation, valuable specialists begin now from 100-150 thousand rubles. only in the richest cities
        this in terms of is 100000 / 64 = about $ 1500
        but housing prices are a completely different thing. in the ghettos, which we call sleeping areas,
        a meter costs 80-110 thousand rubles.
        If, again, we take the western norms on the area (on one about 70m2)
        it turns out that the minimum housing, called "normal" in the cheapest area stands for a specialist who doesn’t eat and drink and lives under a tree, about 70 * 100/100 = 70 payouts.
        and this is 70/12 = 6 years of work.

        in reality, with high rental prices, underestimation of payments by employers and forced job changes, inflation, high interest rates, a simple "western" apartment can be earned by a simple specialist in about 12-15 years, if you do not support a family.
        with the family, saving up for normal housing becomes unrealistic.

        I subscribe to every word
  9. 0
    20 September 2019 16: 55
    Disneyland with the death penalty.
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      1. -2
        24 September 2019 08: 30
        Do you live in a stable? Tidy up, do not disgrace. Or go ahead - for happiness in Singapore, instead of spoiling paper from scratch and pointlessly offensive hints.
        1. +1
          24 September 2019 09: 23
          Quote: helvetic
          Do you live in a stable? Tidy up, do not disgrace. Or go ahead - for happiness in Singapore, instead of spoiling paper from scratch and pointlessly offensive hints.

          For attempts to tidy up, they put them in a truck, but in general you are right, everything goes to that.
          And you are right about Singapore too - people who can afford it have been emigrating for a long time, even among my friends there are enough of them, though mostly to Canada