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Without the PAP Singaporeans will be living a higher standard of living and be one of the happiest people in the world. Education and healthcare expenditure would have increased considerably such that 40 years ago, we would have started to develop our first generation of highly educated (able to reason and innovate) workers. With a more open media our readers and viewers will be more open to alternative ideas and how to think through issues.
Singapore would have worked on long term trade agreements to allow our know-how to engage the natural resources of our neighbours. Our SMEs, the backbone of any developed country will have been cultivated almost scientifically to venture overseas with our know-how, hard work, capital and world trade contacts. Public housing would be at least twice as big as they are today and this will lead to bigger condos as well and all this at a small fraction of the cost it is today. How is this done? By charging public housing at-cost and not at market value and by planning for a population of 5 million 120 years later and not 40 years later that is brought about by mass influx of foreign workers.
What we have today is a stifled civil society. A poor education system that manufactures robots. We have GLCs that crowd out SMEs and innovation. We have GLCs that are arrogant who piss off foreigners. We have Temasek that invests overseas and repeatedly flaunts the laws of our neighbours thus creating a bad impression of Singapore to our neighbours.
It is not difficult to envision a Singapore that is ten to twenty times better today if the PAP was not in power. The 1960-80s was marked by huge economic growth throughout the world. Singapore, being placed within one of the busiest sea lanes in the world would have naturally profited from this growth. It is only a very small chance that we would have a government bordering on being crazy that would have done something to change this positive geographical significance into something negative.
