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nowaypablo  ·  3321 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Sunday Paper 2015.03.29

That Economist article on Lee Kuan Yew was really cool. An interesting concept to have a police state "so well run that there is rarely a cop in sight." That sounds good to me, and it seems like adopting meritocracy would be solid if he could be succeeded by more of himself!

He failed to mention what exactly Mr. Lee did to achieve such economic strength in the face of Malaysian and Idonesian belligerence, and a total absence of natural resources..