What Finland Figured Out That America Can't Seem to Get Right [Ad-Free]
The third video in my series on the world's happiest country is now live.
In America, most people live with a low hum of financial anxiety running in the background. Medical bills. Childcare. The nagging fear that one bad month could unravel everything.
In Finland, that particular kind of dread mostly doesn’t exist.
In this third episode of my series on the world’s happieset Country, I sit down with Anu Partanen, a Finnish author who spent nearly a decade living in the US before moving back home. Her book, The Nordic Theory of Everything, came out of that experience and the gap she observed between how the two countries organize daily life.
I also took a short train ride outside Helsinki to meet Aleksi Linna, a fellow YouTube creator, to understand what Finland's social safety net actually looks like on the ground. As a first-time father, he walked me through the specifics of paid parental and monthly child benefits deposited directly into your bank account.
Lastly, I spent time with Tomi Waltari, a Finnish guy with a full-time job and a family, who somehow still has the bandwidth to pursue an ambitious, basketball-related passion project on the side.
This is Episode 3 of a five-part series on why Finland has been ranked the happiest country in the world. Watch the full video below, and subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next.
