Oh you’re right! Even when Singapore is such a tiny country compared to Mexico, it makes like 10 times per capita higher, although in total Mexico makes about three times more GDP. So it totally makes sense that locally they should have much better standards of living, communication and transportation.
But looks like the metro fares are the same, both around 0.01 to 0.03% GDP. In the USA fare is closer to 0.05% relative to GDP. For me, north of seattle my hybrid car is much less expensive and quicker to use than public transport. However in Seattle city proper using a car is extremely stupid. There’s too much traffic and clearly no parking. Plus the bus and light rail are easy to reach. Yet somehow every morning the freeway into Seattle is packed to the rim. Housing near jobs is too expensive. So people trade housing for ease of mobility.
Wow, Washington state is like 200+ times bigger. Looking at the amount of land left for anything that is plants I would expect a stable or shrinking population. There’s no way that population could have kids and give them housing without an equal amount of deaths. Yeah that’s a hard to look at situation. I hope the planet does start having a shrinking human population.
Ah yes, the birth rate in Singapore is 0.97 so the population is shrinking quickly and their percentage of old age around 65 years is 20% and growing at 13% per year. Within a decade the original population would have been diluted. The general population is unfortunately growing due to migration, which is good. Migration should add new genes to lift up the birth rate. But running out of space and having a 1% migration increase, that’s tough. But now it makes sense. Singapore is rich because of the newcomers. The USA will one day learn that migration is or can be good.
Singapore is quite wealthy. A dollar doesn’t even register for them, it might as well be free. A dollar to them is like 5 pesos to you.
I’ll have to figure out how much pesos are right now.
Oh you’re right! Even when Singapore is such a tiny country compared to Mexico, it makes like 10 times per capita higher, although in total Mexico makes about three times more GDP. So it totally makes sense that locally they should have much better standards of living, communication and transportation.
But looks like the metro fares are the same, both around 0.01 to 0.03% GDP. In the USA fare is closer to 0.05% relative to GDP. For me, north of seattle my hybrid car is much less expensive and quicker to use than public transport. However in Seattle city proper using a car is extremely stupid. There’s too much traffic and clearly no parking. Plus the bus and light rail are easy to reach. Yet somehow every morning the freeway into Seattle is packed to the rim. Housing near jobs is too expensive. So people trade housing for ease of mobility.
Oh I didn’t even realize how tiny Singapore is:
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Wow, Washington state is like 200+ times bigger. Looking at the amount of land left for anything that is plants I would expect a stable or shrinking population. There’s no way that population could have kids and give them housing without an equal amount of deaths. Yeah that’s a hard to look at situation. I hope the planet does start having a shrinking human population.
Ah yes, the birth rate in Singapore is 0.97 so the population is shrinking quickly and their percentage of old age around 65 years is 20% and growing at 13% per year. Within a decade the original population would have been diluted. The general population is unfortunately growing due to migration, which is good. Migration should add new genes to lift up the birth rate. But running out of space and having a 1% migration increase, that’s tough. But now it makes sense. Singapore is rich because of the newcomers. The USA will one day learn that migration is or can be good.
The USA being so anti-immigration is very ironic, since the country is literally made up of immigrants.
Yup. It’s both sad and crazy.