in my country there's only socialists and communists

in europe, you've got social democrats

who are capitalistic as fuck, but tax income to maintain welfare state

so is that socialist or capitalist

both

Yurp breaks the left-right dichotomy

social democrats are just socialists

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

nah

they have some of the best environments for businesses

but

crony capitalism is still a form of socialism

they tax income to maintain welfare state

they don't have crony cap tho

they rank top of best places to do business every year

even above the US

whats your country, btw

arguable, as all Europe is socialist

Portugal

ok

i heard spain has a socialist govt currently

I live in Japan now though

damn

das lit

do you like it there

Portugal shares the government with actual communists

Japan is awesome

I'm still unemployed though, I have to fix that

do you get benefits until you find work

nope

I'm against that anyway, so I wouldn't take them even if it was a thing

nice

its sad how breakdown of the family in the west

only pushes it further towards a bigger welfare state

in asian countries, life's setbacks can be absorbed by the family

but will be interesting to see if that remains

I shocked an Aunt with this but "I oppose welfare because it is the state formalizing and instutionalizing the break down of the family, community in their commitment to take care of each other."

in asia, family based savings is a huge market
served by multiple financial companies

to be used in times of emergencies including health

in the west, its a huge clusterfuck with the whole nationalized health insurance

I was in the Army. I use a cane because of State managed health care