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georgeburdelltoday at 3:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

No it isn’t. Malaysians commute across the river daily and then return at night, having provided their services in exchange for compensation. Singapore gets the work without many of the associated problems with housing those people long term. As a result, there are some ridiculously niche jobs in Singapore that would not exist in another rich country, such as widespread domestic servitude and manual street sweeping


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erutoday at 3:11 PM

How is that different from people living in New Jersey and commuting to Manhattan?

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rangestransformtoday at 4:24 PM

The US could achieve the same thing with a proper migrant labour program