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> Singapore is ruthlessly capitalist, and can be a terrible place to be if you're poor or a foreign worker.

Which Asian countries do you think have it better, in this respect, than Singapore?

Japan and Taiwan come to mind. What's kind of unique about Singapore in Asia is that it's very wealthy, yet its social safety net and worker protections are quite lacking.

lacking how? We do have supporting schemes for the lower income brackets

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