Message from @GingaBomber
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Daily reminder muh socialism works
i don't get it 😛
but theres little difference between democratic socialism and social democracy
One wants to redistribute resources,
The other wants to redistribute wealth, to pay for those resources
Glad twitter and facebook stock are down get woke go broke
Issue is, Wikileaks is a publisher
@Dr.Wol If they're so similar, why do people tend to look far more favorably on the Scandinavian system?
Very concentration nation, very uniform culture, one that does not like conflict.
People there are more submissive.
because they don't know the data all that well,
The Scandinavian system works well because
- They're smaller nations
- They are capitalist
- One Culture
- More jobs than people, so theres good money going around
- High amount of natural resources
Norway for example, is sitting on the largest pile of oil in the world,
Price per person would make every single Norwegian a multi-millionaire
but instead of giving that money to everyone, they're using it to pay for social programs
826 billion dollars of oil
for 5 million people
I doubt Americans would oppose to that model, if they sat on a resource worth trillions, so they don't have to pay for those extra costs in taxes
besides, here in the Netherlands we have the scandinavian system,
Our healthcare is appaling
they're cutting cost for pensioners, and childrens care, and want to instead implement aids medicine on it,
ours is even sexist, I have to pay for some medicine what women don't have to pay for 😒 no joke
Would that be solved if the US found say, a huge oil deposit within their borders
Id imagine the Norweigians are not exploiting the oil due to well, nature preservation or stuff like that
no, because in the US an oil company would claim it, so its private ownership, you'd have one company becoming very rich
Wouldn't you need to have a public oil project find a deposit with the value of tens of trillions?
Called it
yes
Sounds unlikely
but the difference is, that in Norway, all land is considered part of the Norwegian state, so they can claim rights
in the US, you can buy the land
You can buy land in a way
Because land owners still have to pay property taxes
Whats stoppping the norwegians from digging that oil
Which, as far as I'm concerned, are basically land rental fees
norwegians are digging that oil
but thats the reason the scandinavian system works so well for them,
They have a small population, high natural resources
so they can easily afford social programs
America can not, because its too big, too unorganised, and doesn't have government for-profit corporations
Well thats opening some new avenues
Also, some states are run worse than others.
You have red and blue states.
yes, but its also a false comparison
you should compare US to the EU,
Not to one small country