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There is no escaping from Maslow hierachy of needs in this suppresive and oppresive regime .
According to Maslow' humans are compelled to satisfy physiological needs first . This means that if a person is struggling to meet their physiological needs, they are unwilling to seek belonging, esteem, and self-actualization on their own.
Sinkies from young are struggling to survive , swamped with school work and tuition and then if they can find a job unwanted by foreign talents, work long hours and worry when they will be retrenched and be unable to pay their burdening HDB mortgage.
In this pressure cooker dog eat dog environment , few will have time for sports and of course PAP solve this by importing more foreign talents where you even even have a whole so called national team from China and badminton champion from penang
In a totalitarian regime, when it comes to football, what usually happens is some dumbass bureaucrat with zero footballing knowledge starts dictating to the ones who do have an inkling about properly developing the sport, what to do. Their response usually is one of the two: quit, or 'go along to get along' and keep their jobs.
You want better football? Regime change. There is no other way. Forget about those grandiose promises and a lofty target year to qualify for the World Cup.
Incidentally, totalitarian regimes love to project far into the future with grandiose goals... it's their nature and their habit. What they're really implying is their rule will continue on and on, and it'll be business as usual.