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If you try to take Finnish cultural norms around work and apply them to the entire American population, you're going to have a bad time. There are a lot of peo
by wyager 3y ago
If you try to take Finnish cultural norms around work and apply them to the entire American population, you're going to have a bad time.
There are a lot of people in America who want to live on social welfare.
I don't think this is something you can change intentionally without extreme and politically unviable interventions.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoI don’t know how many people that is. Understanding the quantity would be very useful for shaping policy. I do think in the US there could be much more multi-generational trauma from our cold heartless system. Honestly some people are owed a lifetime of relaxation.
- rincebrain 3y agoA lot of Americans think they want to sit around doing nothing all day, but having done that on medical leave, and observed other people, my remark is, people hate ennui. And most people can't get enough stimulation just from social media or TV, so given infinite leisure time, a lot of them are going to go stir-crazy and want to do _something_. Look at all the elderly people who are constantly craving _some_ stimulus in their lives. People think that the natural state of others if given no challenge in their lives is indolence, but having met a number of people looking for social safety nets, most of them just want the ability to get out of the pit they're in...and even the ones who think they want to just not care forever, everyone I've ever met who ended up in situations like that, had to find _something_ to stimulate themselves, sometimes including developing crippling addictions to feel _something_ for a moment.
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- Aerbil313 3y agoThanks, this is actually very insightful. Reminds me of the hamster entertainment park/heroin experiment.