The Straits Times’ associate editor Chua Mui Hoong’s recent commentary about the Singapore dream souring from a turbocharged culture of upgrading is a timely reminder that material success should not be the sole aim or yardstick of achievement for us as individuals or a nation.
Gross domestic product and per capita income, important as they are, capture only one dimension of progress.
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