October 2, 2025 (schwartzreport.net)
Author: Anna Grazulis
Source: CBS News
Publication Date: September 27, 2025 | 1:43 PM EDT
Link: How Finland continues its reign as the happiest country on Earth
Stephan:
As the United States is being taken apart, its democracy destroyed, its healthcare system and science and medical research being taken apart, I thought it might be useful to look at a country at the other end of the spectrum of nations. Finland year after year is assessed to be the happiness country in the world. Free healthcare, free high quality fact-based education, social policies based on fostering wellbeing for all people. Why can’t the United States do this? That I think is the key question to ask. And the answer it because America has become a country with only two social priorities: Greed and the quest for power.
Finland and the Boston Celtics have almost nothing in common besides one thing: The ability to win big, eight years in a row.
For the Celtics, it was eight consecutive NBA Championships from 1959 to 1966, a feat yet to be replicated. For Finland, it’s been topping World Happiness charts for the last eight years. The latter could be considered a bigger accomplishment during such uncertain times, but the mystery of Finland’s happiness eludes many, including the Finns themselves.
The World Happiness Report is an annual report published by the University of Oxford in partnership with Gallup and the United Nations.
“People were going to the survey and trying to figure out, what is wrong with the survey,” explained Frank Martela, a philosopher and professor.
Martela, who this year published “Stop Chasing Happiness: a pessimist’s guide to a good life,” believes the Finns were skeptical because of the way happiness is measured.
I guess like one key reason is what they are actually measuring in this World Happiness […]