Foreigners and women in S'pore, who are not required to serve NS, enter the workforce and begin their careers 2 years earlier than their male S'porean counterparts. This head start allows them to gain experience, build professional networks and move up the corporate ladder faster. Local males are certainly discriminated against by the PAP.
With the threat of invasion by China looming over Taiwan, military service should be at least 2 full years. S'pore, on the other hand, has already been invaded by 650,000 CECAs, so we should just make NS a 6-month-stint.
Will there be riots on the streets once those chums discover that delivering food or people from Point A to B can be done by drones or AI-driven vehicles?
Maybe this will finally put them in place and not be so yaya.