Janteloven is mostly a political talking point. The text itself is being a hundred year old curiosity. Scandinavia have traditionally (in modern history) confor

Janteloven is mostly a political talking point. The text itself is being a hundred year old curiosity. Scandinavia have traditionally (in modern history) conformed not because you had to but because most people lived similar lives. When you have similar education, housing and work environment most people are similar even though you might be appreciate different things. There are for example many metal band from the Nordics. Go back a hundred years and that wasn't true. In fact 15%+ of swedes left for the US at one point. The Nordic countries are known for their Social Democracy where reforms are everything. That of course isn't true anymore, but there isn't much saying that conformity inhibits progress. In most cases you have to get to some good place before you can go somewhere else. That said, today Sweden is mostly a terrible place for any kind of knowledge work since the housing market is so screwed. Seems like these comments aren't going through though so... guess that was a waste much like Hacker News.