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Finland has one of the lowest wealth gaps in EU (or world) and it's hardly a good reason for someone to do drugs. Yes, there is a lot of moralizing about drugs
by ptaipale 9y ago
Finland has one of the lowest wealth gaps in EU (or world) and it's hardly a good reason for someone to do drugs.
Yes, there is a lot of moralizing about drugs and alcohol, but it is slowly getting better.
Yes, the head of Helsinki drug police (not a national position) being on trial for such a series of crimes looks ridiculous, but on the other hand, it shows that the system does something when things go bad.
- pimeys 9y agoWhat do you think about the new law that allows police to walk with dogs in any public happening and check the bags of suspicions people for drugs? Edit: and looking at the queues waiting to get free food is definitely showing that the amount of poor people in the country is going up.
- ptaipale 9y agoI don't think much of it: the practice was quite normal until recently when an ombudsman made an interpretation which the parliament apparently had not intended. So the parliament made a specific law about it and the old way is resumed. Overall, I think it is quite okay to try to keep drug dealing out of concerts and such. Food queues turn up if there is free delivery of food. There was certainly much more poverty (I mean poverty of the "difficulty to make end's meet" kind) in times before the current food queues. But there is no longer a social stigma in picking up food from queues, and similarly the last-resort income support is nowadays increasingly treated as a universal basic income, even if the law wasn't intending it so. The actual problem is that it is increasingly hard to lift oneself up from (relative) poverty through work because the job market eliminates entry-level jobs.