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Singapore cannot abandon meritocracy, can improve it: DPM Lawrence Wong

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Singapore cannot abandon meritocracy, can improve it: DPM Lawrence Wong​


Vernon Lee
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Tue, 28 June 2022, 7:11 pm·3-min read

Meritocracy is still the best way to organise Singapore's society, said Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong.
SINGAPORE — Despite its downsides, meritocracy is still the best way to organise Singapore's society, said Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong on Tuesday (28 June).

Speaking at the launch of Forward Singapore, Wong said meritocracy encourages people to make the best use of available opportunities and preserves upward mobility across society.

“We cannot abandon meritocracy, but I believe we can improve it and make ours a more open and compassionate meritocracy,” he added.

During his speech at the NTUC Centre at One Marina Boulevard, Wong spoke more about Forward Singapore, a year-long exercise to review and strengthen the country’s social compact via a roadmap for the next decade and beyond.

A key aspect of Forward Singapore is to turn challenges into opportunities, and forge a social compact that is fair and equitable across generations, according to Wong .

“Forward Singapore will be a major undertaking of the 4G team…I want to see a Singapore, where opportunities are open to all, no matter who they are or what their background is,” Wong said.

On the economic front, Wong said Singapore will continue to rely on open and free markets to grow, and welcome investments and talent from around the world, in order to create more jobs and opportunities for Singaporeans.

“But we know that left unchecked, the workings of the free market can lead to excessive competition and rising inequalities.”

Acknowledging that competition from foreign workers and professionals has caused “some anxiety”, Wong assured that Singaporeans will not be left to fend for themselves and be subject to market forces alone.

Among the upcoming new measures, Singapore will update its policies to manage the inflow of work pass holders, and pass a law to ensure that businesses and companies uphold fair employment practices.

Singapore will continue to expand opportunities for Singaporeans at the different stages in their life with heavy investments ranging from pre-school education, to skills upgrading and retraining.

The launch of Forward Singapore comes as the country finds itself at a crossroads in its journey, Wong said.

While the expectations were for a “strong recovery” from the COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore is now facing “strong headwinds", with the war in Ukraine fuelling global inflation and possibly a recession, he added.

At the same time, there are rising geopolitical tensions, especially between the US and China amid a “more dangerous and bifurcated” world while Singapore has to deal with a number of social trends with long-term consequences.

Hence, Singapore cannot adopt a “business-as-usual” approach towards bolstering its social compact or risk becoming a “low-trust society” like many others in Asia and Europe, Wong warned.

“And if our social compact fails, a large segment of Singaporeans will come to feel estranged from society, believing that the system is not on their side. Trust in the government and among various segments of society will plummet," he added.

The government understands the concerns of many Singaporeans in areas ranging from the education system to career opportunities, Wong said. As such, he encouraged Singaporeans to give ideas towards achieving the upcoming goals under Forward Singapore.

“I know that these are genuine struggles that Singaporeans face – perhaps more so now than in the past and I hope we will have honest conversations about these concerns, and how we can tackle them together.”
 

Loofydralb

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MERI-TOK-KOK-CRACY only

Bullshit with the rampant discrimination, cronyism, favouritism, racial networking, language preferences...

As if we don't know these exist and thriving
 
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bobby

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Hahaha...SG style meritocracy but subjected to racial "harmony" eg reserved race for the President, racial requirements for GRCs etc etc

Picking the best from the worst issit...liddat called meritocracy ?
 

mudhatter

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i doubt any of their porlumpars believe in any of their motherhood statements any longer

what meritocracy?

any proof?

eunuch loong?

the stinkypura dilemma?

influx of tiongs jiuhu kafir chinks pinoys or ceca virus but never any Muslim immigrants. open secret widely acknowledged stinkypura is kafir anti Muslim Zionist-loving zionist allied zionist terrorist promoting entity

keyshore mahboobani as a stinkyporean ah neh may feel he has got a duty to speak up for his fellow ah nehs and stinkies too, and since his crowning achievement may have been presiding over the UN security council if im not wrong, he might also press all big powers to turn UN into the only medium of dispute resolution and enforcement of international law or the medium of choice for international interactions but nothing changes the fact that UN has always been a bogus organization since at its inception it rubberstamped establishment of zionist terrorist entity (established by such terrorist entities as irgun haganah etc) and that most of the world has no voice at the UN, it did nothing and can do nothing against yanks or zionist not even a minor sanction or embargo imposed upon them through the UN, let alone impose any military solution against them.
what is the UN useful for, then?


utterly useless
 

borom

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meritocracy means paying themselves highest salaries and pensions in the world and parachuting SAF personnel with absolutely no relevant experience into senior positions.
I think Umbrage Ng Yat Chung is the best example-can someone list down how many millions the companies under him reaped or how he has grown them into world class entities?
 

mudhatter

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only with a pliant coolie gene chink population could such bogus propaganda continue to be believed no matter how ridiculous

I haven't posted these truthful memes in quite a while


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Let's recall what stinkypura really is

From Vagabond, the k-drama shot mostly in Morocco (home of Ibn Battuta) which made the drama quite interesting to watch.

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