I mean, on all sorts of quality of life rankings and factors we're almost always at the top. If there's such a thing as on objectively good place to live, Finland seems to be one of them. Not sure what you feel like our ranking should be on QoL and what sort of places should rank higher.
If you're very unhappy with life here then I can understand it being hard to believe that others are genuinely happy to live here. If 98% believe that it just might be that it's not them who are in denial.
I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you are talking about here. Are you saying we had this conversation last year?
Nobody is saying the system is perfect, far from it (with people complaining on the reg), just that we have things a lot better than most places. Which makes it easy to be content and even happy. If recognizing that things are good and being happy with fairly little is a delusion, it's a delusion I'm happy to have, along with a lot of other Finns.
It's like with the corruption thing, when Finland was #1 people rushed to say how there's still corruption in Finland. No shit, but it's a ranking and it's comparing to other countries. We just have less than most.
which literally made people break my basic human rights and decency. For days without medication, a day without water. Completely fucking psychotic, drawing with my blood on the walls.
And afterwards, no-one wants to admit this happened. Not my family, not lawyers, not anyone.
This sounds pretty personal.
I agree that the name can be misleading because different people and different cultures view happiness differently. Life is good here, so we are content. But I disagree that we aren't happy too, we're just happy with fairly little. Some nice peace and quiet at the summer cabin, good sauna, that's happiness.
We are "dumping" it to our defence from what I've understood. If the war we would "dump" it to was the one where Ukraine defends itself against Russian attack, then yeah that seems like a good cause.
Not saying that couldn't affect the ranking but Sweden is up there too.
It's easy to be content with life when things are overall pretty good. And Finns typically are happy with fairly little, so we rank high.
No, it's because things are all things considered pretty good here, so people say "can't complain". Things overall are pretty good. Some understand happiness as being giddy about life but what this ranking more about is how content you're with your life and when things are overall alright, it's easy to be content.
The happiness thing is misleading since what it means varies a lot culture to culture.
in Finnish culture, you’re not allowed to complain
What a load of shit, people complain openly all the time. Foreigners are even shocked when sometimes we're too frank in answering "how are you doing
and our society sees to it that we give even substance abusers and drunks rent money, so people answer “can’t complain”.
You think the ranking is bs because we realize that things are pretty good here? People say "can't complain" because they are content with what they got and know things could be a lot worse. It's not being emotionally stunted or some other bs, it's the realization that things are pretty good here.
It's funny, every time we do good in something there's loads of these people who rush to say how it's bs and how we actually suck. Now that's the Finnish spirit.
It sucks that we still have that reputation abroad. We're doing a lot better in that front. Also at least 2019 and 2016 our suicide rate was actually lower than the US, where a lot of these jokes come from (I was pretty surprised)
What the fuck are you talking about, I have no idea who you are or what happened to you