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Re:Why Finland leads the world in flexible work by snark42 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:32PM (#20771581)
> great to live in if you are not too ambitious or entrepreneurial.

While it clearly hasn't worked out this way (yet) having that social safety net actually should encourage entrepreneurial activity since you have a lot more freedom to fail. Once you succeed you sell out though, because it's easier to grow/expand in other locations.

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Re:Why Finland leads the world in flexible work by AdrianB1 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:55PM (#20771785)
The observed result is people are not encouraged to do anything out of the ordinary because the current life is good enough and the reward for success is just big taxes, so the system is encouraging the status quo.
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Re:Why Finland leads the world in flexible work by sharadov on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:09PM (#20774042)
The labor laws make it hard to hire and fire. So yeah you can start something, but can't do much if the employee does not work out.
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