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title: "Finnish Owners Are Poor Even at €150,000"
titleOriginal: "Suomalaisomistajat rutiköyhiä €150,000 - Sami Miettinen"
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datePublished: 2025-05-22
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# Finnish Owners Are Poor Even at €150,000

## Summary

A clip from the episode "Warren Buffett Taxes | Miettinen | #neuvottelija 329." Sami traveled to Berkshire Hathaway's 2025 annual shareholder meeting in Omaha together with Heikki Keskiväli of Tähtäimessä osakkeet and "Dividend Engineer" Jesse Viljanen, where Warren Buffett dramatically announced he was stepping down as CEO. Short impressions from the trip, plus Sami's feedback and clarifications on some of the more exotic tax decisions from the mid-term budget session (Puoliväliriihi).

## Transcript

*English transcript derived from validated English subtitles ([WebVTT](https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/540-suomalaisomistajat-rutikoyhia-150000-sami-miettinen/captions.en.vtt) · [SRT](https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/540-suomalaisomistajat-rutikoyhia-150000-sami-miettinen/captions.en.srt)). Timestamps link to the original video.*

[**00:00**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ1cg641S1A&t=0s) American wealth is 520,000 euros per adult, while for us it's 150,000 euros. In Sweden, that wealth is 300,000 euros per adult and in Switzerland it's over 650,000 euros per adult. So for example, my self-sufficiency challenge's Esa Juntunen, since he's near that level, he hasn't yet reached even the average wealth of the Swiss. We are really, compared to those Americans and of course the Swiss, dirt poor!

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Cite as: Sami Miettinen, Neuvottelija — Finnish Owners Are Poor Even at €150,000, https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/540-suomalaisomistajat-rutikoyhia-150000-sami-miettinen/, 2025-05-22. For quotes include episode db-540 and timestamp.