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What the Hell Is Finland Smiling About?

Episode 584 of the The Political Orphanage podcast, hosted by Andrew Heaton, titled "What the Hell Is Finland Smiling About?" was published on August 20, 2025 and runs 105 minutes.

August 20, 2025 ·105m · The Political Orphanage

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Episode Description

Finland routinely winds up at the top of global happiness surveys. Why?

In this episode, I flew to Helsinki to wander around and chat up locals. Trying to figure out why:

  • Their social trust is so teeteringly high

  • How their social safety nets work

  • How this combines to result in their contentedness.

So that we can steal all that, and replicate it.

Relevant Episode: The Nordic Theory of Everything

https://www.thepoliticalorphanage.com/p/the-nordic-theory-of-everything-52a?r=1moac

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