The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

by Anu Partanen

American adults might be lying when they talk about prioritizing compassion and love, since it looks as if in reality they value wealth and power. Or they might be telling the truth about their priorities, but something is forcing them to live against their own values in practice.

What Americans need, so that they can stop struggling so hard to be superachievers, is simple: affordable high-quality health care, day care, education, living wages, and paid vacations.

This is achievable

“Social systems that do not promote or enable the pursuit of individual liberty are always going to be at a disadvantage. This used to be the great strength of the United States, social mobility and the American dream,” Trägårdh said. “But social mobility without social investments is simply not possible. So if you start to give up on public schools and a collective system for enabling individual social mobility, you’re going to end up with inequality, gated communities, collapse of trust, a dysfunctional political system. All these things you see now in the United States.”

So true

Or is it when you know that you can become whatever you want and make your own choices regardless of your parents’ wealth or abilities, and when you can rest assured that should you or your family falter, your society will be there to keep you on your feet?

Its this one