DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A SUBSTACK-EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE WOKE SALARYMAN.   In 2013, the Singapore government published the Population White Paper. It projected that our population could reach 6.9 million by 2030. People lost it. To be fair, it was bad. Back then, the trains were packed and broke down often. Housing prices had climbed rapidly in the years leading till then, and work-life balance was a punchline. What the then-government failed to do was explain how it would help Singaporeans while growing the population. It didn’t explain the trade offs, the economics, the rationale; not to the average kopitiam uncle, at least. (Today, many people still don’t understand it.) What people heard was: “We’re bringing in more people — deal with it.” To make matters worse, a series of high profile cases of wealthy foreigners being uncool made the headlines in the following years. This included a man who drove his Ferrari into a taxi at 178 km/h, killing himself and his passengers....