Socially Engineered
In an interesting article in The Atlantic, How the Crash Will Reshape America, Richard Florida writes this about Singapore:
Singapore remains for the time being a top-down, socially engineered society.
Its a loaded sentence and a rather interesting view of our country, to say the least.
Some key words from the sentence:
- for the time being
- top-down
- socially engineered
Some big-picture questions:
- Is that good, bad or both?
- Is the country run by an exclusive class of people who are deemed more worthy?
- Are the people benefiting from this system, and their voices heard?
- Does this increase/decrease our effectiveness and competitiveness?
