Yet we have one of the lowest wealth per capita in the entire western world.
I keep wonderin where these people live in Finland since most them can’t afford a dentist visit or vegitables…
Finnish people have a living rate as high as other Northern countries according to stats.
So we all happy and rich based on stats.
No shit, in the Netherlands we pay 1500 a month for 4 days in the day care, for one child. Let that sink in. To top it up, there’s 50% income tax too.
I’m actually very surprised by the fact that we’re above Sweden. I travel to the Stockholm area for work on a monthly basis, and basic necessities feel like they’re cheaper. I’ve also repeatedly heard that the middle class is taxed more heavily in Finland than in Sweden.
I believe it should be mentioned in title that this is for 2019, aka pre covid and pre war era. I bet this list are very different for current year (although I don’t think anyone can make it yet).
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Behind a 39€/mo paywall… Ans it’s a yearly subscription… AND it’s on sale god damn
Hurrah! …And then you find out that stuff costs here more than anywhere else in the EU. Hurrah?
“This statistic shows…” seriously did you look at the graphics in your picture? I could claim it was highest as well.
I’m a bit skeptical.
This was before Finland’s current catastrophic government. Now Finland has dropped way down.
I love how Finns immediately come arguing how these types of the statistics cannot be true and even if they were everything’s gone to shit since then.
This part of Finnish mentality could explain some if its success. We rarely take good things for granted, and constantly are in some sort of defensive survival mode, thinking we can lose it all at any moment. Maybe it comes from history. Finland has had to cope with big loss in the past.
These kind of positive factoids get buried so badly underneath all the negativity.
Opposition politicians want to say that everything is going badly and that they are the only ones who can fix it. Gives them votes.
Media wants to claim everything goes badly, because negative news are read more than positive news.
Ordinary citizens want to claim they have everything bad, because it’s in human nature to focus more on the negative than the positive, and they want your sympathy for themselves.
Meanwhile the reality is that the average Finn, on a global scale, is very rich and well-to-do. Of course a lot of that has been built on exploitation. We’ve benefited immensely from labor outsourced to countries with poor employee rights, and from accelerating climate change with the first and worst hit victims being on the other side of the world.
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Luxembourg 47.14
Switzerland 41.56
Germany 40.7
Norway 39.57
Austria 38.33
Finland 36.56
Sweden 36.45
Belgium 36.04
Holland 35.74
France 35.39
Denmark 34.77
Great Britain 34.24
Italy 32.63
Ireland 29.72
Spain 27.93
Portugal 27.68
Czech Republic 26.23
Slovenia 25.89
Lithuania 25.37
Slovakia 23.71
Estonia 23.47
Poland 22.47
Yet we have one of the lowest wealth per capita in the entire western world.
I keep wonderin where these people live in Finland since most them can’t afford a dentist visit or vegitables…
Finnish people have a living rate as high as other Northern countries according to stats.
So we all happy and rich based on stats.
No shit, in the Netherlands we pay 1500 a month for 4 days in the day care, for one child. Let that sink in. To top it up, there’s 50% income tax too.
I’m actually very surprised by the fact that we’re above Sweden. I travel to the Stockholm area for work on a monthly basis, and basic necessities feel like they’re cheaper. I’ve also repeatedly heard that the middle class is taxed more heavily in Finland than in Sweden.
I believe it should be mentioned in title that this is for 2019, aka pre covid and pre war era. I bet this list are very different for current year (although I don’t think anyone can make it yet).
You need a statista account to view this information.
Behind a 39€/mo paywall… Ans it’s a yearly subscription… AND it’s on sale god damn
Hurrah! …And then you find out that stuff costs here more than anywhere else in the EU. Hurrah?
“This statistic shows…” seriously did you look at the graphics in your picture? I could claim it was highest as well.
I’m a bit skeptical.
This was before Finland’s current catastrophic government. Now Finland has dropped way down.
I love how Finns immediately come arguing how these types of the statistics cannot be true and even if they were everything’s gone to shit since then.
This part of Finnish mentality could explain some if its success. We rarely take good things for granted, and constantly are in some sort of defensive survival mode, thinking we can lose it all at any moment. Maybe it comes from history. Finland has had to cope with big loss in the past.
These kind of positive factoids get buried so badly underneath all the negativity.
Opposition politicians want to say that everything is going badly and that they are the only ones who can fix it. Gives them votes.
Media wants to claim everything goes badly, because negative news are read more than positive news.
Ordinary citizens want to claim they have everything bad, because it’s in human nature to focus more on the negative than the positive, and they want your sympathy for themselves.
Meanwhile the reality is that the average Finn, on a global scale, is very rich and well-to-do. Of course a lot of that has been built on exploitation. We’ve benefited immensely from labor outsourced to countries with poor employee rights, and from accelerating climate change with the first and worst hit victims being on the other side of the world.