We didn't earn it — we inherited it.

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There is a very Finnish sport that requires no skis, no sauna and no summer cottage: arguing about who deserves what from the state.

Should the unemployed keep their earnings-related allowance?

Should municipalities or the new wellbeing counties pay for grandma's home care?

Should an employee stuck indoors during a drone alert get paid for doing precisely nothing?

We debate these questions with the seriousness other nations reserve for constitutional crises.

Meanwhile, the actual balance sheet keeps quietly getting worse.