Singapore will be the Capital

gotta watch out for those micro nations

they're the small dogos of the international community

Soon, maldives will rule Asia

Lol jk

in that they bark a lot

honestly Putrajaya is a beautiful capital city

Interesting data on global emissions

I've been to Singapore. Lovely place but so expensive.

Nah, solomon island will somehow annex everyone

national review has an interesting bit about sweden

Singapore is expensive because tourists go to all the touristy areas

By lovely, you mean, a surveillance state ruled by an authoritaroan autocrat?

@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