Finland Remains at the Top of the World Happiness Rankings
How is it possible that we have lost our way? Maybe this was never our “way” to begin with.
American society is largely built upon a kind of rugged individualism, where our people really don’t care too much about others’ well-being. By contrast, the Scandinavian countries, and to perhaps a lesser degree, the rest of the developed world, live in the belief that the welfare of all citizens is important.
That’s why the citizens of these countries don’t mind paying slightly higher taxes if that means that no one lives in poverty, or is denied healthcare and education. As a result, these nations are constantly getting stronger and more cohesive, where the United States seems to have lost its grasp on even its most basic tenets, like democracy, that have guided it for 250 years.
Craig – you know better than this.
Take a look at the population make up of Finland, and most all other Country on this rock we all live on.
besides the First Nations of the US – which were here before “every immigrant” from the “Pilgrims – who were religions zealots – the US has never had a single race population.
What do you expect – that every individual who either came to the US on his own; or was brought here as a slave; was going to play “koom-by-ya” with each other?
For God sakes man — Get Real.