“disservice to stereotype us Singaporeans as oppressed, timid, politically apathetic digits … it would also be a mistake to assume that we’re free.”

https://adimagazine.com/articles/no-free-labor-for-authoritarians/

Singapore is a different dystopia

“experience is akin to being oppressed by the most insufferable middle manager you’ve met. They won’t beat you; they’ll just irritate you to death”