Finland Has a Different Approach to Forming a Society, But Is It Worth Considering?
The United States is on an absolute frenzy to widen the wealth gap, and all the data suggests that the super-rich are being extremely successful in this endeavor. Today’s CEOs are making 287 times more than their typical worker, where in 1965, that ratio was 21:1. Almost all the new wealth that has entered the United States since the 1980s has gone to the top 1%.
As shown at left, Finland has an altogether different approach. It appears that they have somehow averted the “greed-is-our-only-priority” thing and opted for a totally different sort of society. This might not even be worth mentioning were it not for the fact that the Finnish people have wound up on top of the World Happiness Rankings for the last seven consecutive years.
Maybe being a nation led by selfish assholes is something we need to reconsider.
What philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell said here is entirely correct, but sadly, the quality of our thinking seems to have taken a turn for the worse in recent years.
The message here, obviously, is that the blind consumption of resources leads to the death of the planet.
The retired actress to whom I referred in my earlier post 
As demonstrated at left, American politics is getting stranger by the hour.
We constantly hear people saying, proudly, that they’ve turned off the news, so as to preserve some level of sanity. I get that, but it’s not easy when the content is as disturbing as this.
Albert Camus lamented that the world of his time, the mid-20th Century, failed to provide “clarity and meaning.”
Even my mom, a lifelong Republican, admires Bernie Sanders. “He’s so sincere,” she says.
The cartoon here put a smile on my face, but it really could be applied to modern-day U.S. politics under Trump.
Yesterday, I had the good fortune to meet a retired Broadway actress who spent last summer in Ireland. She reports that, in many ways, the Irish are more troubled by Trump’s presence in the world than we are ourselves.
