It's dangerous to think that a commoner can run a gov and a country properly.....because they are common....they tend to fall victim into common mistakes like greed, sex, corruption, power abuse, cronism and bad publicity....you can say that they are many success cases but in little red dot....one small thing can blow out to propotion so imo we cannot afford that
Power abuse? That's one thing the papayas has done very well... since the
1960s.
LKY supports polygamy FYI.
http://www.patriarchywebsite.com/resources/lky-polygamy.htm
"And the way the old society did it was by polygamy.
The successful, whether youre 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.
We introduced monogamy. It seems so manifestly correct. The West was successful, superior. Why? Because they are monogamous.
It was wrong. It was stupid."
The problems we are facing now, is a result of their incompetencies all these years.
Massive influx of foreign workers => more wear and tear on MRT
flooding => relevant agencies sitting on their asses thinking SG will never be flooded
list goes on.
If you say you need high pay to prevent corruption (even though governments all around the world are paid MUCH less, so they're corrupted?), fine.
Then, it is more than reasonable for all the citizens to expect you to do a damn fine job of ruling the country. But... to err is human, right? Yes, but what about accountability? "Lets move on" -> is that being accountable to all the tax payers?