@Needmoresleep I know this is off topic, but out of interest, let me reply your post. Apologies to OP for the essay. :)
Ok firstly, I think it would be remiss to ignore the fact that there have always been major issues around how helpers are treated here. It makes me angry too.
That said, please don't call them "servants" – Singaporeans tend to call them "helpers". The vast majority of cleaners and live-in housekeepers in London are Eastern European and generally work for longer hours for less pay. Some are very badly treated, but you still wouldn't call them a servant just to make a point. Helpers in Singapore are almost always English speaking and can understand you perfectly well; virtually every Singaporean now call them "helpers" precisely in the name of dignity, to reinforce the fact that it's a job and not an identity for them.
We had to pick a cause to volunteer for in school, and I actually spent the vast majority of my secondary and junior college years involved in domestic worker campaigning, but I'll spare you the paragraphs I initially wrote :) I truly used to come at it with a black-and-white war hammer, but many factors changed my views after living in the UK for a period.
Anyway, the main thing is that Singapore emerged from the global definition of 3rd world poverty 20-30 years ago, just as I was born. As the country has grown more middle-class (not the British definition meaning "upper class", but the literal definition) over the past 2-3 decades, so too has mainstream concern for the average worker, and then marginalised groups, the latter especially in the last decade. Workplace legislation is catching up, crucially both for Singaporeans themselves (we might even get a minimum wage soon!) and foreigners, though the 2 clearly aren't comparable at the moment (yet they were just decades ago).
I used to think all of these were propaganda-esque soundbites, but sometimes Occam's Razor does apply. I've seen it with my own eyes: the country following the trajectory of other developed countries (e.g. the UK historically) where a country undergoes a golden age (ironically through badly impoverishing their colonies like India). The average citizen first establishes economic stability for themselves, and then starts campaigning for marginalised groups in the country. When I returned to Singapore in the past half-decade, I was quite shocked at the widespread public enthusiasm for change, as opposed to how our earlier campaigning had fallen on death ears.
We were a British colony up until the 60s. Singapore has been repealing British laws lately, e.g. the anti-homosexual laws. Among other things, observers have commented that it's also shaking off the ingrained British mentality of "class" (in her later years as she encountered dementia, my grandmother would bow and make way for now bewildered white people, as she was taught to in her formative years!) / caste (as you will know, based on the class system in England, the Brits enthusiastically picked up on and popularised the initially obscure idea of caste as a ruling mechanism in India). Again, commentators have noted that throwing away the colonial "class" mentality is a crucial element in rethinking labour dynamics.
Finally, I would caution against thinking your friends are the norm. That would be a bit like me thinking English friends I met at uni with sprawling family estates represent the average Brit! In a country where even owning a car you drive yourself is rare, many people especially would be gobsmacked at the fact that someone has a driver – that in itself indicates obscene wealth. I would say while a helper at home might be common, 2 helpers and a driver is not at all. Many attending Oxbridge are very wealthy but just as many come from public housing (4/5ths of the population lives in public housing) as I did.