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So, first impressions on the budget… Does little to nothing but reveals much. Let’s start with workfare “benefiting” 440,000. Really? What this shows is the government allows employers to pay workers below the cost of living and is then stepping in with public funds to cover the difference for a massive 20% of the workforce... 

NHK World the international service of Japan's largest broadcasting organisation produced a couple of weeks ago a short feature to talk about “the other side” of the Singapore success story; the people “money no enough” side of the story as I like to put it. There are 300,000 - 400,000 elderly Singapore citizens who... 

Nations, culture, people, what account for their differences? The differences seem random and chaotic. However, Chaos Theory shows that behavior of dynamical systems are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Francis Fukuyama in his ‘The Origins of Political Order | Neuroanthropology’, made essentially the same points.The...