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

by Anu Partanen

Perhaps the answer is that Finns have built a great society because of their pessimism, not in spite of

“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.”