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What the Hell Is Finland Smiling About?

What the Hell Is Finland Smiling About?

Update: 2025-08-20
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Finland routinely winds up at the top of global happiness surveys. Why?

In this episode, I flew to Helsinki to wander around and chat up locals. Trying to figure out why:

  • Their social trust is so teeteringly high

  • How their social safety nets work

  • How this combines to result in their contentedness.

So that we can steal all that, and replicate it.

Relevant Episode: The Nordic Theory of Everything

https://www.thepoliticalorphanage.com/p/the-nordic-theory-of-everything-52a?r=1moac

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What the Hell Is Finland Smiling About?

What the Hell Is Finland Smiling About?

Andrew Heaton