Wow. Being a poor street kid going to university to study physics and now being in a career slump (that payed well) with two kids makes me feel like I was kicked and finally did not get up. I knew this was a possible future by looking at my mom. When I was young I vowed that it would not happen to me, now here I am. I lived 16 years in Norway, where the wealth is taxed, is not the perfect country, where the most rich man actually looks like a frog and pays his tax in another country. But the cleaner, the hairdresser and the waiter can afford flats or houses and live with enough to eat and smile, pay doctors and send their kids to free high education. You might meet them in south Europe or US sunbathing thinking they have some money. They don’t and they do, depending if you are an engineer with an Oil&Gas industry paycheck or a south European poor waiter. The only thing that hit me is that my moral compass is still intact (win for me), that I experienced what it’s like for the rich to bear the burden of an education and health system. Now away from it I’m and without it dropped in depression . So yes, Scandinavians are the happiest because the rich carry the burden together with the working class (the majority) of the expenses needed to run a country, meaning if you end up with no job the system takes care of you and your kids . So yes , contentment is possible and not living in survival mode is possible. Now, nothing lasts forever and the far right is approaching And no, scandis are not communists. Norway has Oil&Gas, how many greedy men and women do you think live there? Like Garry says, look around you and tax the wealth

A cozy gothic romance around a plague, a strange plague. Student x Teacher I say cozy not because of the lack of gruesome descriptions, no, it has plenty of that, but because everyone is sweet. Nothing wrong with that, I just wish for more twisted characters when my world in on shambles If you love fairytales, evil little things, a secret society and a mystery with the background of Dublin, Trinity College and the long room, then this is for you.

Ends with a happy for now

2,5 🍆