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The Price of Play

Why Singapore's Happiness Gap Starts Young. Everything has a cost. For Singapore, it may have been play… Why are we ranked the world's least emotional country, and why are our under-30s less happy than our seniors? This essay traces a line from Yale's most popular class ever to a child asking for extra worksheets, and argues that trading childhood play for the nation’s future may have cost us more than we anticipated.

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