Maybe Singapore has become a bit too similar to the US in some respects? Remember this old story: a Soviet citizen arrives in the US at the height of the cold war. On arriving, he’s taken to the grocery store. He looks around, eyes wide, and exclaims, bewildered: “But there are no bread lines! How can this be?”. You see, everything he’d been told about the US was a lie. It wasn’t a land of decadence and barbarism; but, at that time, a land of plenty, of opportunity. Now, in a grand irony of history, the shoe’s on the other foot. Here’s my new version of the story above. I live in Europe and the US. I tell my friends in the US that in Europe, if you’re disabled, or seriously ill, or just elderly, many national health services will send carers to your house. That’s right; your house. To … care for you. Like the Soviet citizen of yesterday, my American friends of today say, bewildered: “But how can this be?! That’s impossible.” Wrong. It’s not impossible. It’s precisely how real prosperity happens.
Posted on: Sat, 03 May 2014 10:39:09 +0000
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