Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday.
Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.
Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives. The study was done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
When it comes to decreasing happiness — or growing unhappiness —the United States has dropped to its lowest-ever position at 24, having previously peaked at 11th place in 2012. The report states that the number of people dining alone in the United States has increased 53% over the past two decades.
Honestly.
The lengths you will go to avoid seeing how the system in Finland literally TORTURED me for DAYS and NO-ONE CAN EVEN ACCEPT IT HAPPENED, LIKE YOU.
It’s beyond delusional.
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What the fuck are you talking about, I have no idea who you are or what happened to you
Case in point.
Thanks for showing people rhe extent of your willful ignorance
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You’re purposefully avoiding all criticism of Finland.
Exactly my point
What criticism am I avoiding??
Read the conversation back and see how many times you’ve even implicitly acknowledged I was stuck in a cell writing with blood on the walls, breaking my basic human rights.
The fact that I have to actually spell it out for you IS the problem.
Your criticism over Finland being a good place to live according to Finns is that you say out of nowhere that you were tortured and writing on the walls with blood and shit like that, of course I’m going to be confused as fuck. It comes off straight up crazy.
It’s a perfectly coherent example of the depths that emotional stuntedness comes out as; pathological avoidance.
You’re still doing it, and wrote that comment in a way that you don’t even implicitly accept that this actually happened. And you’re a random person on Lemmy, probably a bit left leaning, smart-ish, etc.
You don’t understand that the psychological avoidance you’re doing is endemic in Finland, Finnish culture, and the Finnish language.
The fact that I’m having to spell this out THIS hard is very much what I’m talking about. You pretend like you don’t know that everyone can see that your avoiding this subject on purpose. AVOIDING. As in, not facing a thing, because you’re afraid of something.
You simply can not accept flaws and mistakes in Finland. You say you can, but you clearly can not. That is the issue. You delude yourself while avoiding all emotion.