I would like to remind everyone that if LKY had been allowed to have his way, polygamy would be part and parcel of the Singapore way and the country would have ended up a far better place for all of us.
“The successful, whether you’re a scholar, a Mandarin or a successful businessman or successful farmer, you had more than one wife.In fact you can have as many as your economic status entitles you or can persuade people to give their daughters up to you. In other words, the unsuccessful are like the weak lions or bucks in a herd, they were neutralised. So over the generations you must have the physically and the mentally more vibrant and vital, reproduce. We are doing just the opposite. We introduced monogamy. It seems so manifestly correct. The West was successful, superior. Why? Because they are monogamous. It was wrong. It was stupid.” - Lee Kuan Yew, Population and Development Review, Vol. 13 No.1, 1987 (buck: the male of the deer, antelope, rabbit, hare, sheep, or goat)