pretty hard to square the results with lived experience on several fronts. For one Singapore turns out to allegedly rank material well being-relatively low, whe

pretty hard to square the results with lived experience on several fronts. For one Singapore turns out to allegedly rank material well being-relatively low, when from personal experience it's kind of 'late capitalist' on steroids even compared to SK or other East-Asian countries. Often in Singapore when I asked what people do for fun the first answer was 'go to the mall'. SK still does have a fairly active cultural life besides work in comparison and a thriving art scene. The general trend of a lack of life satisfaction beyond material terms is right but I'd say it's a global condition, somewhat more intense in East-Asia but not by much, the differences in the survey seem random or probably dependent on how open people are about these questions.