Things that bewilder me

Many things in present times bewilder me,
for my brain is puny but my mind is nosy
My education has offered no solutions,
so maybe you can answer my questions:

How can land be considered expensive
when it can be acquired by force at low valuation?
How can land be deemed as scarce
when it can be expanded by upward construction?

When land was forcibly taken away from the people
public funds were used for compensation
so where did public funds come from?
Didn't it come from people's pockets through taxation?

How can housing be considered affordable

when people slog for decades to pay instalments?

Is home ownership promoted for a good purpose

and not as a tool of enslavement?

How does war benefit the average Joe
when he has to risk his life in sweat and gore
and his family directly or indirectly finance
the astronomical debt incurred from the war?

And to whom does a country owe its debt to?

To where does the money flow?

Can a country to be out of a recession,

when unemployment is high and GDP growth is low?

What protection has the war on terrorism provided
when 'terror' has always existed and will continue to?
What has the ubiquity of surveillance achieved,
has security and safety really ensued?

But none of these bewilders me more

than the apathy in Singapore

Do you have the answers, can you share with me?
So that confused and bewildered I shall no longer be.