They came to a fork in the road and DIDN’T take the Too Big To Fail Route.
And THEY shall have the last laugh.
It’s still hard for me to believe we went the other way, and I shudder to contemplate how badly we’ll end up paying for that.
They did the right thing.
Great article, but the author is missing obvious things:
They have a very resilient SHARED CULTURE.
They have a great attitude, but if you suddenly imported phalanxes of people who OPENLY HATED ICELANDIC WAYS, that would all fall apart.
Per Sweden.
The Marxian author latches onto, “equality of happiness permits their resiliency”.
He’s itching to substitute “income” in for the word, “happiness”, there.
He’s calling for higher tax, but the Icelandic key seems like a COMMON CULTURE they still have.
It also doesn't hurt that the Icelandic rank near the top on frequency of having sex according to another survey I read.
It may be partly due to those long winter nights, but I bet their women are also a major factor in said statistic.