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Apologies for wasting time on this fluffy comment, but:

They're using Finland of all places as an example of somewhere with a reputation of being happy all the time?

This is bizarre to me. As a Scandinavian, the thing Finland is known for is being unusually depressed and alcoholic...

Finland is also famous for coming top of happiness surveys all the time

> Finland is known for being unusually depressed

> Finland is also famous for coming top of happiness surveys all the time

"And Alexander wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer"

At first I checked out this happiness survey claim, which is true. Then I was thinking, maybe my initial informal impression was wrong?

But looking at the depression and alcoholism data, it also seems to be true!

This is really confusing!