The problem with the new generation is life is mapped out, they keep getting told they are the smartest people ever and the next guy finishing university is so smart he should be the boss.
( they dont know what they dont know)
Common comment heard by ( myself) and many bosses is when reviewing new staff, ask are you happy here, “yes but I cant understand why I am not the manager” Its hard not to laugh at them.
University is rigged and regardless how all the well paid foreign lecturers mark students the results are all moderated by the faculty to ensure 95% pass.
LKY also started the attitude that the university student is the smartest guy in the room so Singapore has the view that by the time you are 45 you are unemployable. The atitude still is older people never went to University. So if you didnt pass university you dont know anything.
Nobody wants to employ Singaporeans, too entitled and taught by rote means they cant think.
People that think can be a threat to the government. Thats a massive conundrum for the gov, they spent years lopping heads off and making a compliant population and then complain Singaporeans have no get up and go and there are no entreprenreurs, like DOH.
One of my nieces is a partner in an accounting firm she said locals come in now and say in the job interview, “what are you going to do for me” 50% of their headcount in Singapore is foreign and thats growing.
There is an HR disease in Singapore as well, not hard to guess when HR is from the same talent pool, they cant work out what your skills are as they have no clue about the job, they only want to know what the last job paid you and they have fixed guidlines for your offer. This just creates job hopping in Singapore to get a pay rise.
There is a reason Singapore has very low productivity by any measure.
If you found a Singaporean working outside Singapore they had the get up and go to leave so they are a lot different than the rest that drink the kool aid at home.
It happens once multinational staff mix regionaly and find out about the real world, they come back to Singapore and ask for a transfer to another country once they see the career and lifestyle they can have and wont have if they stay.
LKY did a great job putting Singapore on the map and improving the lifestyles for all, but that was years ago, the thirst for absolute power has sewed the seeds for the slow demise.