Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The Future of Singapore || Peter Zeihan" video.

Water they can desalinate and recycle, SG can already generate over half its needs with these methods. The bigger problem is food, as there’s practically nowhere left to dedicate to agriculture and despite their intensive efforts they are still almost totally dependent on fossil fuels (so no industrial-scale indoor farming either).
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As the latest winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics explained, it’s national institutions that determine the prosperity of the country. Locales rich in easy resources (mined minerals and also constantly-growing tropical foods) tended to install elitist extractive forms of governance, while more hardship ones (which included places like colonial America and Australia) fostered more democratized and socialized political cultures.
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Right, SG would be in mortal trouble without the labor of all the foreign migrants they import. It’s not like other regional examples of respectable rulership like Oman or Botswana or Uruguay where the locals don’t deem themselves above getting hands-on with shit jobs.
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Although it’s more accurate to describe the fall of AUD and CAD against the USD. The SGD has been stable against the greeback.
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@pietwandelaar1743 In technical aspects. In other skills and achievements humans care about (notably artistic), the average Singaporean seems lacking.
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It’s not the headcount that counts, it’s more how old they are. Populations then had both elders dying and youth being born faster.
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@jakemontone807 Ask East Germany. Oh wait.
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