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Has Singapore government evwr welded people on their apsrtments? What is thw basis for this comparison?

Why would providing better education in America lead to people being welded into their apartment? Is freedom only possible with incompetwnt governance?

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Author Leopold Kohr's twentieth century books argued that bigness and scaling are a major problem for freedom, and so insoluble that it's better not to keep attempting to manage bigness. Riversflow was arguing here, correct me if I'm wrong, that some nations find it insoluble to unwind various kinds of bigness, and that none of those nations can make an attempt to emulate a nation that has managed its society without the scale factor at which they, USA included, already exist.

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