Finland’s story shows equality is the best route to happiness

The country named the world’s happiest in a UN report was relatively slow to recover after the financial crisis If you can’t buy happiness, perhaps you should move to Helsinki. Finland has emerged from a 10-year economic depression to be ranked by the UN last week as the happiest place to live on the planet. The most important factor in Finland topping the UN’s happiness ranking is the country’s history of equality. It has managed to strike an amicable balance between the sexes, between workers and bosses, and within the education and welfare systems. An equal society can bond together to survive the bad times when so many countries pull themselves apart. At the turn of the century Finland was riding high. It boasted one of the world’s most successful tech companies – Nokia – and a had a well-deserved reputation for embracing the internet revolution. It had escaped from the shadow of the Soviet Union to become a robust neighbour to Russia. Continue reading... source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/17/finland-happiness-worlds-happiest-country-equality #Headlines by: Guardian Staff

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