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William Doyle

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Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

It's about 5%, maybe 10%, depending on how you measure it.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

That's compared to the United States at 20% to 30%, depending.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

And that, in my opinion, is one of the greatest measurements of a society's spirituality or compassion or, for that matter, religious emphasis.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

I found it as an expat, as a friendly American, to have no problem making friends and connecting with people here.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

There are no barriers to that.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

I would tell you, Georgia, that a big part of

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

What you're identifying, I think, is compared to the United States, there's a tremendous lack of stress.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

And what I mean is in the United States, we are in fear of medical bankruptcy, which is almost unheard of here, which you can fall into very, very easily in the United States.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

That's terrible stress.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

Generational education debt.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

where you have to pay off your university debt for 10, 20, 30 years is unheard of here because the society decided that higher education should be free, very good higher education.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

That may strike people as a radical communist idea, but I think it's one of the ultimate conservative ideas.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

You know, the education system here was created by business, business leaders who thought that we need a free, universal education

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

through higher education excellent uh education system to be competitive and to sort of outsource that to a highly efficient well-run government system again not perfect but it's a different way of looking at education i think if americans could just release their ideological uh blinders sometimes and think of just practical things what what could work what could work better

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

Come to Finland, see what's happening here and make it even better in the United States.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

That's what I think we should do.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

Well, you know, Georgia, again, I keep coming back to socialism.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

It depends on how you define socialism.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

There's Stalinist socialism, there's Nazi socialism, and there's, I suppose, the socialism that the Nordic countries, Finland and several others, have.

Morning Wire
The Happiest Country on Earth Isn’t What You Think

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