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Anu Partanen
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February 2016
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The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
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2016
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19 editions
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The Fog of Living Abroad
Powell's, the venerable independent bookstore in Portland, OR—where I'll be visiting on July 18—asked me to share some thoughts on what it was like to write my book. The short answer? Really, really hard. Here are my musings on cultural confusion, and the challenge of writing in a new language.
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“It was all part of a way of doing things in the United States that, as I would gradually realize, forced you to be constantly on guard, constantly worried that whatever amount of money you had or earned would never be enough, and constantly anxious about navigating the complex and mysterious fine print thrown at you from every direction by corporations that had somehow managed to evade even the bare minimum of sensible protections for consumers.”
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
“And people should be able to make choices related to their employment without worrying whether they will still be able to receive, say, treatment for cancer.”
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
“Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren put it eloquently: “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there, good for you. But, I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea. God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
― The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
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