#Europe#USA#Work#WorkingHours#QualityOfLife: "In short, most Americans would probably prefer European working hours. It is just that their employers, and the cost of health insurance, get in the way. The US offers big prizes for finishing top, and big punishments for finishing bottom. That is partly why Europe exports its most ambitious strivers there.
But few Americans win the big prizes. Many others end up overworked and unhappy, albeit in big houses and cars. In the latest World Happiness Report — a partnership between Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre and the UN — the US finished 23rd for self-reported happiness. Nordic countries took the top spots. As the Swedish political scientist Bo Rothstein observed: “It is now clear that, from the many societal models that have been tried since the breakthrough of industrialism, social research can point to a winner in terms of human wellbeing and this is the Nordic model.”
Even Tangen seems to like it. He has taken enough leisure time to build up the world’s largest collection of Nordic modernist art (the sort of activity the typical New York hedge-funder would not do alone), and enjoys holidays in his summerhouse."
