u agree if loong is not kuanyew son, he can get this far?

[kaninabuchaojibye]

 

[mudhatter]

errr....can't agree with penultimate sentence.

what proof is there that talent is evenly distributed?

agreed that opportunities are not evenly distributed.

best example for stinkies would be stinkypura.

talk until bleed abt meritocracy, yet practise 'kleptocracy' plutocracy autocracy cronyism nepotism and ceca import.

 

[Leongsam]

Talent is definitely not evenly distributed.

 

[Leongsam]

From a pool of 1.4 BILLION Muslims which are 20% of the world's population (2 out of every 10 people)
Literature

1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace

1978 - Anwar El-Sadat

1994 - Yasser Arafat *

2003 - Shirin Ebadi

Chemistry

1999 - Ahmed Zewail

Physics

Abdus Salam

 

[Leongsam]

Jewish Nobel Prize Winners​

From a pool of 12 million Jews which are 0.2% of the World's Population (2 out of every 1,000 people)
Literature

1910 - Paul Heyse

1927 - Henri Bergson

1958 - Boris Pasternak

1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon

1966 - Nelly Sachs

1976 - Saul Bellow

1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer

1981 - Elias Canetti

1987 - Joseph Brodsky

1991 - Nadine Gordimer

2002 - Imre Kertesz

World Peace

1911 - Alfred Fried

1911 - Tobias Asser

1968 - Rene Cassin

1973 - Henry Kissinger

1978 - Menachem Begin

1986 - Elie Wiesel

1994 - Shimon Peres

1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

1995 - Joseph Rotblat

Chemistry

1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer

1906 - Henri Moissan

1910 - Otto Wallach

1915 - Richard Willstaetter

1918 - Fritz Haber

1943 - George Charles de Hevesy

1961 - Melvin Calvin

1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz

1972 - William Howard Stein

1972 - C.B. Anfinsen

1977 - Ilya Prigogine

1979 - Herbert Charles Brown

1980 - Paul Berg

1980 - Walter Gilbert

1981 - Ronald Hoffmann

1982 - Aaron Klug

1985 - Herbert A. Hauptman

1985 - Jerome Karle

1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach

1988 - Robert Huber

1989 - Sidney Altman

1992 - Rudolph Marcus

1998 - Walter Kohn

2000 - Alan J. Heeger

2004 - Irwin Rose

2004 - Avram Hershko

2004 - Aaron Ciechanover

Economics

1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson

1971 - Simon Kuznets

1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow

1973 - Wassily Leontief

1975 - Leonid Kantorovich

1976 - Milton Friedman

1978 - Herbert A. Simon

1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein

1985 - Franco Modigliani

1987 - Robert M. Solow

1990 - Harry Markowitz

1990 - Merton Miller

1992 - Gary Becker

1993 - Rober Fogel

1994 - John Harsanyi

1994 - Reinhard Selten

1997 - Robert Merton

1997 - Myron Scholes

2001 - George Akerlof

2001 - Joseph Stiglitz

2002 - Daniel Kahneman

2005 - Robert (Israel) Aumann

Medicine

1908 - Elie Metchnikoff

1908 - Paul Erlich

1914 - Robert Barany

1922 - Otto Meyerhof

1930 - Karl Landsteiner

1931 - Otto Warburg

1936 - Otto Loewi

1944 - Joseph Erlanger

1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser

1945 - Ernst Boris Chain

1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller

1950 - Tadeus Reichstein

1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman

1953 - Hans Krebs

1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann

1958 - Joshua Lederberg

1959 - Arthur Kornberg

1964 - Konrad Bloch

1965 - Francois Jacob

1965 - Andre Lwoff

1967 - George Wald

1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg

1969 - Salvador Luria

1970 - Julius Axelrod

1970 - Sir Bernard Katz

1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman

1975 - David Baltimore

1975 - Howard Martin Temin

1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg

1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

1977 - Andrew V. Schally

1978 - Daniel Nathans

1980 - Baruj Benacerraf

1984 - Cesar Milstein

1985 - Michael Stuart Brown

1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein

1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]

1988 - Gertrude Elion

1989 - Harold Varmus

1991 - Erwin Neher

1991 - Bert Sakmann

1993 - Richard J. Roberts

1993 - Phillip Sharp

1994 - Alfred Gilman

1994 - Martin Rodbell

1995 - Edward B. Lewis

1997 - Stanley B. Prusiner

1998 - Robert F. Furchgott

2000 - Eric R. Kandel

2002 - Sydney Brenner

2002 - Robert H. Horvitz

Physics

1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson

1908 - Gabriel Lippmann

1921 - Albert Einstein

1922 - Niels Bohr

1925 - James Franck

1925 - Gustav Hertz

1943 - Gustav Stern

1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi

1945 - Wolfgang Pauli

1952 - Felix Bloch

1954 - Max Born

1958 - Igor Tamm

1958 - Il'ja Mikhailovich

1958 - Igor Yevgenyevich

1959 - Emilio Segre

1960 - Donald A. Glaser

1961 - Robert Hofstadter

1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau

1963 - Eugene P. Wigner

1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman

1965 - Julian Schwinger

1967 - Hans Albrecht Bethe

1969 - Murray Gell-Mann

1971 - Dennis Gabor

1972 - Leon N. Cooper

1973 - Brian David Josephson

1975 - Benjamin Mottleson

1976 - Burton Richter

1978 - Arno Allan Penzias

1978 - Peter L Kapitza

1979 - Stephen Weinberg

1979 - Sheldon Glashow

1988 - Leon Lederman

1988 - Melvin Schwartz

1988 - Jack Steinberger

1990 - Jerome Friedman

1992 - Georges Charpak

1995 - Martin Perl

1995 - Frederick Reines

1996 - David M. Lee

1996 - Douglas D. Osheroff

1997 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

2000 - Zhores I. Alferov

2003 - Vitaly Ginsburg

2003 - Alexei Abrikosov


and more....

 

[laksaboy]

At least those people have at least a modicum of talent. What exactly is Lee Hsien Loong talented at? Fixing the oppos or catwalking?

 

[nirvarq]

At least those people have at least a modicum of talent. What exactly is Lee Hsien Loong talented at? Fixing the oppos or catwalking?

Definitely Catwalking.

 

[Annunaki]

If his father is not LKY he can get lanjiao! And this applies to his entire cheebye Jiak Liao bee Lee dynasty!

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

At least those people have at least a modicum of talent. What exactly is Lee Hsien Loong talented at? Fixing the oppos or catwalking?

Actually he should have become a maths professor. Apparently his maths professor at Cambridge wanted him to stay on as a lecturer but LHL declined because daddy called him home.

 

[nayr69sg]

Actually he should have become a maths professor. Apparently his maths professor at Cambridge wanted him to stay on as a lecturer but LHL declined because daddy called him home.

I think he would have been happier.

 

[JurongEast]

Lee Hsien Loong best and most memorable moment: Sentosa Cable Car Incident

At least those people have at least a modicum of talent. What exactly is Lee Hsien Loong talented at? Fixing the oppos or catwalking?

 

[spotter542]

He became PM in 2004
Statistics don't lie
Can't even cross the 70% mark even though he capitalized on his father's demise in 2015

 

[Narong Wongwan]

I think he would have been happier.

The entire singapore will be happier

 

[frenchbriefs]

Wasn't Elon musk born in South Africa into a middle class family?

Pretty sure he went to America with basically nothing and started PayPal or the predecessor of PayPal in his university dorm.

 

[frenchbriefs]

And also Jeff bezos was adopted......I dunno if his parents are very rich....but he was already pretty successful working on wall street as a investment banker before he quit a million dollar job to start Amazon......

I find no source about his parents giving him $245,000 in 1995 but his company was awashed in investors funds in the 90s dot com boom despite losses in the early years......his Amazon ipoed in 1997 for a market value of 480 million dollars.

Even if let's say talent is evenly distributed......if I can give u 245,000 dollars and get a return of 1 trillion dollars,that's a pretty damn good ROI....cause I'm sure if I have 245000 to every man on the street,half of them would lose that money within 3 years.....maybe even 6 months.

 

[Charlie99]

I think he would have been happier.

I agree.
Less stress, less work, even less money should not be an issue

 

[frenchbriefs]

The entire singapore will be happier

Yes never mind him being happier,all of us would be happier.