@oprahsminge what's it about??

put it in newsroom

it talks about misconceptions the left and right have about the country

I meant good place to visit not to live

@oprahsminge can you give a gist if you read the whole thing?

i like, at least in theory, the idea behind their version of social security

deregulation

Singapore is a great place to live tbh, just that your voting doesn't really matter

basically it talks about the rather unique circumstances that allow sweden to be sweden in terms of the way it runs

they benefit from being a relatively low population country that has a very deep interpersonal trust

on economic issues they are further right than the american right

in some ways at least

theres a film coming out called "Sweden: Lessons for America?"

I may need to watch this

based on the description there's a few things that simply wont work here

some of these things require trust of government which americans simply don't have

as much as the left pretends they do

Sweden is becoming more America like right now, so they won't work over there either for much longer

thats the problem in most of western EU countries

not the solution

people putting way to much trust in government

@AdorableStormtrooper yes but we have a couple issues that we may be able to glean some ideas from

they reformed their original pension system

they partially privatized it

now ultimately I want that entire system here gone

but as a kind of intermediate step to remove it, that isn't a terrible idea

i agree with that

thats interesting

public pensions are cancer

in addition, they made them variable

it's a ponzi scheme

so the amount paid depends on the state of the economy

they gonna have to do that over here as well i think

the person interviewed say "while it may not be as generous now as it was, at least we know it will survive."

economically, they are rated as a more free and open economy than america

it can be done over a long time so current pension receivers and people who are just about to become eligible aren't affected, people who haven't paid into the system, their shit should be privatised

i mean just imagine being 50+ and suddenly getting told that this pension you worked all your life for, paying huge amounts of taxes for.
Well you gonna get less now AND you gonna have to work longer as well!
Were very sorry 😃

that is what happened here btw

its not a hypothetical

ive accepted that im going to pay into the system and not expect to get anything

though tbh whatever SS can do for me wont really matter since my current retirement plan that is private will pay me several times it

ah so ur one of the smart guys 😛

they privatize over a long time i think don't they? i think they proposed that in NZ, and the proposal was that people who are aged over 40 will not be affected

this is why, the sooner you do it, the lower the blow

@tritrium not really. I mean social security isn't exactly a high pay system as it is

I worked with a guy when I was 22 who was near retirement and he said, "Social Security isn't going to pay me enough to continue living here. So I'm going to supplement it with a part time job"

well thats true pensions arent very high here either

at that point i realized that "if this guy is boned, I'm definitely going to be boned"

so i made some choices

the more rightwing parties here keep bitching about unemployment payouts

and how they need to cut on those

but when u look at the numbers, it barely even shows up in the total budget figures

Welfare needs to go anyway, charity should be a private affair

cutting unemployment is not necessary

he talks about the other EU countries being stupid for trying to mimic sweden

basically they are taxing their populace and businesses to death

and regulating them to death

What is necessary is the formation of public support to tackle longer term issues

what do you mean @Blackhawk342

I mean that parties need to stop focusing on minutia and start having debates about the long term

i wonder how simple the swedish tax system is?

For the left, stop harping on LGBTQQIIAA2SP+ issues

For the right stop nagging people about abortions and unemployment

LGBTQIAAACO-OP

Political Parties in a Democracy will never talk long term because that's not how the incentives are set up

if you're ubisoft

@Timcast can you release videos at 5pm instead of 6pm ? 6pm is midnight here and I often have to postpone watching your videos in order to not be sleep deprived at work 😉 I will understand if you can't.

ah ur talking about the stupid navel gazing

They're only elected and running for the next 5 years and the public doesn't care about the long term

they want shit NOW

Thats because the public doesnt care yes

@Blackhawk342 I will not stop nagging people about abortions when they ask me if I support them

if they don't ask, I wont talk typically

Which is why its necessary to rally public support for those issues

@oprahsminge if its anything close to the belgian one, its ridicilously confusing but dont take the belgian stuff as a standard, everything is confusing here

When I say nagging i dont mean debate or discussions

I mean stop having campaigns about it, stop letting it take up air time

Abort Leftist Babies

that's not going to happen

though I don't control it

obviously

If there's a Will, There's a Way

Hence the need to rally public support for long term not just the short term

short term support is how you end up with flint michigan situations

#AbortLeftistBabies

my dude, democracy doesn't lend itself to long term solutions

tbf if the leftists continue to be single and not produce children, only the right wing will remain

so in a generation, they'll be extinct

not currently it doesnt

not atleast in the public's interests

because the public is in charge and they typically dont think long term

most of them dont think a year ahead and anything beyond four years is unheard of

All the left needs to do is to stop with the negative, destructive message and find something positive and new.

then de-incentivize the federal politics and re-incentivize the state politics

if you want longer term strategy

Local long term political focus will save the world

Not sporadic federal level pushes every 4 years

it has to start local

yup

what works in michigan won't necessarily work in florida