@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