Extrinsic vs Intrinsic motivation

Which do you think is predominantly used in Singapore? What do you think are the impacts on the Singapore society of using such a mode of motivation?

In my opinion, Singapore predominantly uses extrinsic motivation.
As the author has mentioned, people have been "paid" to have children. Just a few years back, Singapore has implemented the "Baby Bonus scheme". Incentives and regulations has been given and changed to attract more couples to have more babies. An example would be tax rebate of $10K for the second child, $20K for the third child and the same for the fourth child. There are increase in the number of days of childcare leave for parents too. As of this year, we can see a slight rise in the number of babies born. Thus we can see that Singaporeans would need a "push" to see the need of having babies in their urbanised lifestyle.

Another distinct example would be how Singapore is a "fine" country. Singapore has been known to fine its own citizens to discourage them from not flushing the toilets and littering. Without these fines people would not be bothered or have no motivation to keep our environment clean. However, I feel that things like keeping our environment needs intrinsic motivation too. Although Singapore has implemented the fines, we can still see that people still do litter. Therefore, I feel that Singaporeans will need to have motivation in themselves to stop doing actions that destroys our clean and green environment.
We can see that the implementation of the fines have stop most of the littering problems from happening, thus in general, Singaporeans still need this extrinsic motivation.

I do agree to what Jinyi has said about the donations and prizes. By donating, people will stand chance to win prizes, thus, people who donate would have the main aim in mind to win those prizes but not to help those needy. The fact that these organisations have put in the "prizes" factor, would most probably due to them forseeing that those prizes would attract people to donate. Therefore, we see the extrinsic motivation in the donars of Singapore here again.

Just like what the author has said, this extrinsic motivations "invites calculativeness, discipline and professionalism." The "Kiasuism" concept of Singaporeans has proven the fact that without money being one of the factors, they would not have the drive to do things. People who want to earn more money would go in professionalism. The govenment would make policies aimed at using extrinsic motivation. I feel that by the ebd of everything it builds up a facade in individuals and brings about dishonesty. Just like what Jinyi has said, everybody will try to mask his or her true intentions.

In conclusion, Singapore uses extrinsic motivation predominantly.