Northern Lights
Do the Scandinavians really have it all figured out?
BY NATHAN HELLER
For more read :http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/16/northern-lights-4?mbid=social_facebook
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Some say that the American Dream is not what it once was: wages are low, retirement is not a parachute glide but a plunge, and those chosen to fix such problems labor at undoing one another’s laws. For these doubters, there are the Swedes. On any given day, a Swedish man—call him Viggo—might be reclining on a sofa underneath a Danish lamp shaped like an artichoke. He is an artist, and he has a pension. He is wearing boldly colored pants. His young wife, Ebba, is a neurosurgeon, though she has never paid a krona in tuition, and her schedule runs between the operating table and the laboratory. Things are busy. She and Viggo have small kids...ILLUSTRATION BY SCRIPT & SEAL
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