Re:Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise
by Arnt on Sunday December 08, 2019 @08:40AM
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I think you don't get it... Finland doesn't have much of an elite.
A CsomethingO who got posted to a scandinavian country by his multinational employer put it well in a newspaper interview. He was expected to wear suit and tie Monday-Friday, but if his home needed some work, then people expected him to drive to some bigbox store and afterwards get up on a ladder and do it, just like any of his subordinates.
Your electrician might drive a BMW or Mercedes, like any random suit. That's not "needlessly expensive", that's a country where the electrician is part of the "elite". A societal choice. The "elite" is the majority. The richest people's children go to the same school as everyone else, which produces a shared fate.
A CsomethingO who got posted to a scandinavian country by his multinational employer put it well in a newspaper interview. He was expected to wear suit and tie Monday-Friday, but if his home needed some work, then people expected him to drive to some bigbox store and afterwards get up on a ladder and do it, just like any of his subordinates.
Your electrician might drive a BMW or Mercedes, like any random suit. That's not "needlessly expensive", that's a country where the electrician is part of the "elite". A societal choice. The "elite" is the majority. The richest people's children go to the same school as everyone else, which produces a shared fate.