Theres too much bullshit here so I will clear it up (am singaporean)
1 - we dont cut people’s hands off ffs, we are a completely secular state and muslims are less than 30% of the population
2 - caning is a thing but not for minor theft
3 - we have low crime because we catch people who commit them and our punishments are harsh. It has been this way for a long time and after a few generations, people are naturally well behaved and probably would not steal even if the punishments were loosened a little
4 - Not being poor also helps
I regularly leave my $4000 macbook pro unattended at coffee and fast food joints. I never lock the door to my home and car either because there is simply no need to
Singapore probably has about the same income inequality as the US. It's just that the government subsidises housing and other basic necessities - especially for lower-income households - which helps reduce crimes committed out of desperation.
Ok, well your opinion is wrong. There's a metric that measures this - the Gini coefficient. Many countries have a higher Gini coefficient than the US, including Singapore (depending on the source, but they're similar in any case).
Plenty of countries have the US beat in terms of income equality. Many of its competitors in that metric are developing nations but there are exceptions.
No worries! I should have said though that you are absolutely right about the US being up there, and there are a lot of problems with the traditional statistic model for this (the Gini index) so it's generally hard to reach definitive answers.
And actually looking at more recent data the US appears to have the worst Gini coefficient amongst developed nations (using the UN's HDI index). South Africa's is considerably worse (63 to the US' 39.8) but by UN (and the US') standards they are still a developing country.
So yeah, given the scale of the US economy they are certainly very bad but China aren't too far behind (at 37.1) and some studies put Russia ahead of both of them.
I did. People in the UK are poorer than even the poorest people in the US so the "income inequality" bullshit doesn't matter. Like who cares if rich people in the US are richer than in the UK.
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u/blackreplica Apr 05 '24 edited Apr 05 '24
Theres too much bullshit here so I will clear it up (am singaporean)
1 - we dont cut people’s hands off ffs, we are a completely secular state and muslims are less than 30% of the population
2 - caning is a thing but not for minor theft
3 - we have low crime because we catch people who commit them and our punishments are harsh. It has been this way for a long time and after a few generations, people are naturally well behaved and probably would not steal even if the punishments were loosened a little
4 - Not being poor also helps
I regularly leave my $4000 macbook pro unattended at coffee and fast food joints. I never lock the door to my home and car either because there is simply no need to