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Dhevarajan Devadas, a Singapore historian, posted a link to this newspaper article from 1984 asking young people what they thought about the rapid economic growth we were experiencing

Then 26 year old Suratiman Sinthar was prescient: "he was confident Singapore could achieve the Swiss standard of living but warned "there was no point in a high standard of living if the cost of living got out of control".

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singmonitor19841213-1.2.5.11

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