(11-23-2021, 08:23 PM)lastonealive Wrote:

(11-23-2021, 06:06 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote: Finland doesn't have energy price issues, they are powered by offshore oil from the North Sea. Same with Norway and Sweden. It's annoying for people to constantly refer to these societies as the model everyone else should follow. They are low population, high-income countries made so through exports of mostly oil, and of course they're going to have higher standards of living simply because there are fewer people to share all that import income.  Try again, and please use a country with a population of over 10 million.

Not totally sure what you are arguing. All I said was that Finalnd are world leaders in education.

Also their price of gas is far higher after a Google? So even more confused what you are arguing.

Finland does not have much fossil fuel.  He's confused them with Norway.  Norway has a lot of the stuff.
He's right that Finland benefits from a small, homogenous population.  He's right that we shouldn't compare ourselves to Finland too much. Finnish people trust each other more.  They don't abuse government benefits, and believe that their neighbors also aren't abusing government benefits. Finnish people work hard, less of them abuse their version of disability benefits, for instance.

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