Quote (El1te @ Oct 4 2023 04:45pm)
Certainly helps alot for keeping them wealthy, but that has zero correlation with crime & degeneracy. See any number of extremely wealthy American cities for reference
Their wealth is better spread. Well when you consider average living costs to average wages. It's no wonder crime exists in places like new York when a 1 bedroom is on average over 4k or some absurde amount now while in Singapore it's like 1400 USD equivalent and the average salary is just north of 60k.
Poverty will always result in crime and the cost of living is well out of hand in major wealthy cities in the USA and Canada. Of course crime is also going up. No surprise there.
Not to mention their population is minimal in a country with that much economic activity all in a tiny radius making infrastructure easy. I don't think we can even remotely compare them to the USA.
Take some place like Canada, miniscule population spread over one of the largest countries in the world. Infrastructure has go stretch over a massive land mass as does its upkeep and every logistical challenge that comes with it. If we were solely concentrated on Toronto or another port city and every tax dollar just went their I think our quality of living would sky rocket.
People always want to compare these massive countries to places like Luxembourg or Singapore where you can hit a golf ball across.
Take large countries and compare, we'll you can see that to have low crime and degenerate behaviour as you put it you have what we would call here human right abuses, highly oppressive governments with people trying to leave or would most certainly leave given the option.
This post was edited by SBD on Oct 4 2023 05:07pm