I’m trialling a way of policy formulation. I’m going to post some of my suggestions here, and I hope people will come offer comments and criticisms. Then, we can cumulatively improve on them. Hopefully a somewhat more decentralised system will generate something really innovative and useful for improving Singapore.
I place my faith in Hayek. 
Tinkertailor offered an excellent suggestion. I’ll be setting up a Wiki instead. I’m in the process of selecting a software now, I’ll post the link here once I’m done installing.
Anyone knows of an affordable webhost that provides Ruby on the server as well?
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start a wiki lah
Hayek eh, an ideologue he is too.
Wikipedia has a list of free wiki servers that you can use and PeanutButterWiki looks good for a start. If the wiki does take off, you could ask for donations to register a domain and buy some web hosting space. If the policy discussion generated was salient and seemed to have the potential to enact some real changes, I’d be glad to donate some money to the cause.
I have been following the last couple of posts pertaining to your criticisms to SDP’s economic policies, the difference in interpretation between Trowa and you. I totally support the idea of writing a wiki on alternative policies that illustrating different points of view to the current establishment and perhaps it will be useful at some point.
I don’t know whether it is in your ambition to be a politician. So, I just drop by and give my support to this movement.
My view is that it’s better to govern by necessity than to govern by ideology, particularly when it comes to formulating economic policies.
BL:
Hey, thanks for dropping by and leaving comments.
As to whether I want to be a politician or not… hahaha…. well, given my views on state power, shouldn’t the answer be obvious?
My dream to help society is to be as successful a businessperson as I can be, and then using the money I’ve earned to do good in this world. Something along the lines of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
As much as I do not like Microsoft’s business tactics, I believe Bill Gates is using his wealth to do good in this world. The millions he has spent on health care in Africa alone is worth more than all the aid ever given to them, as he takes a personal interest in his aid-giving, and actually actively directs the way the aid is used and distributed. Much more efficient and effective than giving aid to the corrupt regimes governing the African countries.
Hence, I believe private action can do more to alleviate the world’s problems than government action can.