Speaking during his last National Day Rally, Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015), the first prime minister of Singapore, “The first job of a government is to equalise opportunities, not to equalise results. If you equalise results, you are done for. You end up with what Deng Xiao Ping calls “the iron rice bowl.” Nobody works, everybody does their minimum, very little rice in the bowl.”
That is what made the difference and today Singapore is a thriving first-world nation.
