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From Reuters:
I had to laugh at the second paragraph... if you know Finns. I do, I’ve lived there after my parents emigrated so many years ago. I love the country, and its people... but the happiest? ROTFLOL... tells you how ****ed yo those types of “polls” are.
The happiest Finns I know are those in the US.
Paragraph 2 reminds me of a joke told to me by a Norwegian while doing some consulting work in the south of that country about 15-years ago. It’s part of my joke arsenal...
A Finn and Norwegian are in a cabin during a long winter’s evening drinking vodka...
Mr. Norge pours a couple shots, they slam the glasses on the table and suck back the poison.
A couple minutes pass...
Same procedure follows...
A couple more minutes pass... same procedure...
This goes on a third, forth, fifth, seventh, ninth, fifteenth time...
After pouring the 16th shot, the Norwegian honors his drinking partner with a “Kippis” (Cheers in Finnish)...
... the Finn looks at his drinking partner in a more than irritated manner and asks him...
... are we here for drinking, or are we here for talking???
If you know Finns, they’re often not the most talkative. When my Norwegian buddy told that joke... I howled... and then promptly told it to my family... who howled.
As for their experiment... chalk it up to another of a long line of socialist failures. This was only 2000 people... over time, like welfare itself, this would become an abomination, and awful for society.
The two-year trial, which ended a month ago, saw 2,000 Finns, chosen randomly from among the unemployed, become the first Europeans to be paid a regular monthly income by the state that was not reduced if they found work.
Finland -- the world's happiest country last year, according to the United Nations -- is exploring alternatives to its social security model.
The trial was being watched closely by other governments who see a basic income as a way of encouraging the unemployed to take up often low-paid or temporary work without fear of losing their benefits. That could help reduce dependence on the state and cut welfare costs, especially as greater automation sees humans replaced in the workforce.
Finland's minister of health and social affairs Pirkko Mattila said the impact on employment of the monthly pay cheque of 560 euros ($635) "seems to have been minor...
Finland's basic income trial boosts happiness but not ...
I had to laugh at the second paragraph... if you know Finns. I do, I’ve lived there after my parents emigrated so many years ago. I love the country, and its people... but the happiest? ROTFLOL... tells you how ****ed yo those types of “polls” are.
The happiest Finns I know are those in the US.
Paragraph 2 reminds me of a joke told to me by a Norwegian while doing some consulting work in the south of that country about 15-years ago. It’s part of my joke arsenal...
A Finn and Norwegian are in a cabin during a long winter’s evening drinking vodka...
Mr. Norge pours a couple shots, they slam the glasses on the table and suck back the poison.
A couple minutes pass...
Same procedure follows...
A couple more minutes pass... same procedure...
This goes on a third, forth, fifth, seventh, ninth, fifteenth time...
After pouring the 16th shot, the Norwegian honors his drinking partner with a “Kippis” (Cheers in Finnish)...
... the Finn looks at his drinking partner in a more than irritated manner and asks him...
... are we here for drinking, or are we here for talking???
If you know Finns, they’re often not the most talkative. When my Norwegian buddy told that joke... I howled... and then promptly told it to my family... who howled.
As for their experiment... chalk it up to another of a long line of socialist failures. This was only 2000 people... over time, like welfare itself, this would become an abomination, and awful for society.
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