It sounds like you're content letting anecdotes stand in for data. I'm not. See, a policy can have the intended effect on society as a whole even if there are

It sounds like you're content letting anecdotes stand in for data. I'm not. See, a policy can have the intended effect on society as a whole even if there are plenty of anecdotes about situations where it doesn't. So the existence of such cases as your Finnish Labor Minister doesn't mean the policy doesn't work in the long run. To answer that, you need data.