I have seen ever since I came to Singapore in 2009, our standard just kept getting downgraded. In 2009, we had heard about people who just came 1 yr before me got their PR in 6 months of their application. I found out forget getting PR, keeping your EP is like having a PR.
Also those day you could get a PEP, if you just had a salary of 3.5K provided you stayed in Singapore for 3 yeas or something and then they quickly changed the rule to min 8k salary and then kept increasing it faster than my salary could ever catch up.
Today I found out, forget about EP, S Pass is like the new E Pass now, for people like me who have crossed 40 but have hit the 15k kind of salary band and are in the financial services industry.
We can extend this to other things also. Given the way rents are increasing, HDB is the new condo

