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While speed-reading madness is raging in the network, Singapore rewards 15 minutes of read rest a day with cash. A plea for slow enjoyment.
Singapore is trying to convince people to read more. Authorities have launched a campaign in which those who give up at least 15 minutes a day on phones in favor of books are rewarded. The country that pays people to read. What amounts are offered to those who give up phones for books first appears on Romania TV.
In an effort to alleviate the rise of doomscrolling (the action of compulsively consuming content on social networks and the internet), Singapore launched this month an unprecedented national campaign: from now on, and for five years, the state will pay its inhabitants to read. The initiative seeks, on the one hand, to lower the [...] La entrada Singapore pays to read books and leave cell phones was first published in El Diario
Singapore launches a national campaign that tries to convince people to read more, giving them little financial rewards for the time spent with a book, in trying to fight addiction to online content, writes the Romanian press.
The strategy is part of a five-year national campaign that aims to regain reading habits and strengthen concentration, critical thinking and imagination at a time when digital content is increasingly competing for attention.
In an attempt to limit the time spent on social networks, various solutions are proposed. An unusual measure, however, attracts attention – starting in September, Singapore pays citizens, if they read at least 15 minutes a day. The goal is double – encouraging critical thinking and imagination and reducing the time spent on social networks. [...]
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