Damn Norweigans!

First they win the Eurovision song contest and now this http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2009_EN_Summary.pdf, Norway is the highest ranked country in life expectancy, BNP per capita and education. Oh well. The numbers are based on 2007 so the effects of the financial crisis aren't part of it, which would explain Iceland's 3rd place. But my hat is off, now all I can do is educate myself further and make more money to try to beat them next time. But we'll never beat Norway, they aren't part of the EU, the lucky bastards. So I'm gonna have to sit here, with our 7th place while someone else decides what's best for me.

Though it does amuse me a bit that the US doesn't pop up until 13th place. Why it amuses me, I don't know.

There is a couple of things I think the UN should also take into concideration while they're making a list of quality of life, as this list basically is, how about investigating how many people per household? How many homeless? How many people with access to adequate healthcare? How about affordable daycares? How many per cent of women work full time? How much maternity/paternity leave? Access to libraries? Public transportations? What about enviromental factors like the state of the soil, water and air? The BNP per capita may say a lot, but it doesn't say that much about how much money is spent. How far do those thousands of dollars actually go? In some places you simply need more money to pay for the most basic of needs.

Because surely, those things matter just as much, or more than university degrees, people can be happy without a Phd in bullshit, while I think it's harder to be happy when you're not feeling entirely safe.