Nope, not all it was just a joke. Singaporeans are more concerned about the materialistic things they can buy in the here and now, don't get me wrong i like new shiny things too but boi are we driven by the pursuit to convert things into trash and then proceed to burn them.

Don't believe me? Tell a Singaporean you meet "Ah your country is so clean but damn was it hot" , most will lap that shit up like a dog but the edgeir ones will go well we are a cleaned* city with all our old folks that work as national janitors cause a lot of people get paid shit due to our hyper capitalist nation where the poor just get shit on and probably never retire unless they die