People often talk about Nordic model as answer to all of humanity's problems and end goal of historic development. I am thinking perhaps we could have thread dedicated to analyse why these countries are rich(other than imperialism) and more importantly what problems and hardships's do proletariat and common people face there. I am especially interested about finland, since, unlike it's neighbor sweden this country has few natural resources and actually fought in both world wars, and was bombed.
For starters here are some articles and information I wound.
