i suppose you will be downvoted into oblivion but this is the cold hard truth no Finns want to face. Truly the embodiment of ‚Good times ***create weak men***‘
Any_Economics7803 on
Why is it always us? Why not Norway?
Comfortable_Lab_3123 on
As a non-Finn who have lived in Helsinki happily for more than 10 years, it’s interesting to see a foreigner who don’t like it here but still spend 16 years of his life torturing himself here, instead of moving to wherever makes him happy
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Posting a link to an opinion piece without any kind of input of your own thoughts for a conversation starter is pretty lame.
Mlakeside on
> Finland, like other Nordic countries, is perhaps best-known throughout the world for its supposedly generous welfare state, innovative education system, gender equality and all-round social egalitarianism. But on all counts this reality doesn’t hold up. The reality – and this is not widely reported at all – is that Finland has undergone a precipitous social and economic decline, with virtually every metric used to indicate the country’s past successes in interminable decline.
I feel this chapter summarizes the essay quite well. I agree with the author about the myth how Finland is presented in the media, but I must disagree with their understanding of what Finland has been in the past: Finland has never been the sort of social utopia foreign media tends to represented. It was never even close.
All these are lies, but like the best lies, they have a hint of truth to them. Finland never solved homelessness. There were some more or less successful policies that decreased homelessness, but it didn’t solve it. Most people don’t end up as addicts because they’re homeless. They end up homeless because they’re addicts. You can’t solve a problem by treating the symptom. Finnish kids do homework, but definitely less than in many other countries, but it’s still there. There was a study a while back that piloted a 4-day work week in some workplaces. The results were generally good, but *none* of the workplaces that participated decided to adopt it anyway. It has not been seriously talked about ever since, and even at the time it was mainly a curiosity and nothing more.
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i suppose you will be downvoted into oblivion but this is the cold hard truth no Finns want to face. Truly the embodiment of ‚Good times ***create weak men***‘
Why is it always us? Why not Norway?
As a non-Finn who have lived in Helsinki happily for more than 10 years, it’s interesting to see a foreigner who don’t like it here but still spend 16 years of his life torturing himself here, instead of moving to wherever makes him happy
Posting a link to an opinion piece without any kind of input of your own thoughts for a conversation starter is pretty lame.
> Finland, like other Nordic countries, is perhaps best-known throughout the world for its supposedly generous welfare state, innovative education system, gender equality and all-round social egalitarianism. But on all counts this reality doesn’t hold up. The reality – and this is not widely reported at all – is that Finland has undergone a precipitous social and economic decline, with virtually every metric used to indicate the country’s past successes in interminable decline.
I feel this chapter summarizes the essay quite well. I agree with the author about the myth how Finland is presented in the media, but I must disagree with their understanding of what Finland has been in the past: Finland has never been the sort of social utopia foreign media tends to represented. It was never even close.
I’ve never understood how foreign media is always able to come up with the most imaginative claims about society. While Finland apparently [solved homelessness](https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/02/how-finland-solved-homelessness/), I still saw people sleeping on benches in the park and while we [don’t have homework in schools](https://medium.com/students-for-the-future/theres-no-homework-in-finland-4a2cc43e9571) I vividly remember doing homework assignment at even in the first grades. We were also apparently [aiming for a 4-day work week](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/01/08/finlands-prime-ministers-aspirational-goal-of-a-six-hour-four-day-workweek-will-this-ever-happen/) but even the government at the time didn’t make a single proposal to achieve this.
All these are lies, but like the best lies, they have a hint of truth to them. Finland never solved homelessness. There were some more or less successful policies that decreased homelessness, but it didn’t solve it. Most people don’t end up as addicts because they’re homeless. They end up homeless because they’re addicts. You can’t solve a problem by treating the symptom. Finnish kids do homework, but definitely less than in many other countries, but it’s still there. There was a study a while back that piloted a 4-day work week in some workplaces. The results were generally good, but *none* of the workplaces that participated decided to adopt it anyway. It has not been seriously talked about ever since, and even at the time it was mainly a curiosity and nothing more.