[grotesqueness]

To be honest, my wife and I are happy with a middle class lifestyle like our counterparts in developed countries.  However, to enjoy living in a private residence and owing a car in S'pore, we have to be millionaires. Is it any wonder why Sinkies have become so materialistic? 

that why the book say this place will become MORE SINFUL generation after generation 

and the book is right from the start