In 1957, I was shitting into a bucket shared by 50 families that was cleared once every 24 to 48 hours. My bath water was collected by my elder brother from a standpipe 1km down the road. My mum used a charcoal iron and my dad had to pump up the kerosine lamps every night so his kids could do their homework.
Don't come and tell me and the thousands of others around me who lived without running water or electricity how "prosperous" we were because I don't need to watch videos. I have first hand experience.
Thanks to LKY, by 1967, I actually had a tap and an electrical socket in my new home.
By 1970, the gangsters who had extorted thousands of dollars from my uncle who owned a sundry shop were exterminated by the LKY government. The British forces did absolutely nothing to solve this problem. Neither did the Malaysian police between 1963 and 1965.
come on lah. use your brain a little bit.
let suppose you or me or anyone was the pm in the 50s and 60s.
we just got independent and our job is to make the place better than before.
you look around and see samleong shitting in a bucket , many were fetching water from well,
gangsters were having a field day. etc etc.
are you going to build house with bucket system and more wells ?
Lee did not specifically built the flushing toilet for you. it just happened when he built pigeon holes.
you wanted to provide jobs for sinkies , you just built factories.
all the were just the natural outcome of things.
if you built school , of course the educational level will be higher in later years.
you had to build school not because you are kind , it was because you are the PM.
you had to do something to show the sinkies.
if you or me was the pm , we would have done so too.
we couldn't be sitting down doing nothing right ?
what you have to ask is who benefited most from all these "effort" to make sillypore a better place.
are you 100000 times richer compared to what you had in the 60s ?
are you brothers , aunties , nephews having a very very good life now ?