that's right I'm dissing Singapore but i see that shit replicated in the activist, NGO and corporate environments in this country. because “merit” translates to “how useful you are to global capitalism” these days and even the human-rights and NGO-industrial crowd all can't see beyond their ass. meanwhile wages stagnate and it gets harder for working-class people to make a living in an increasingly-dehumanising labour market. while everyone bends over to the great god Eff Dee Ai.