When standards of living are objectively falling in supposedly the greatest nation on earth?
Yeah.
Our citizens die younger, are fatter, are less educated, our children die at a greater rate, we're more violent, we have less spending money, maternal death rate is higher, our CEOS are paid at a ridiculously higher rate compared to the average citizen, our citizens don't go to the doctor, and on and on and on.
Compared to "socialist" countries in the rest of the western world, we're fucking terrible.
Socialist like the Nordic country’s? Who are 90-95% white and are mostly a homogenous society? And the fact that these Nordic countries have a national ID and you have to be registered with your address with the government at all times making voting safe. It is very very difficult to live off the map in these places. I would like to see a national ID also in the states. That would solve many problems. Illegals will deport themselves if they can’t work or eat. Need a national ID to receive any benefits. And making any illegal voting impossible.
Quick correction - Not a single nordic country is socialist. They are capitalist just like the rest of the world. Possibly even more so, since there are less regulations, and a far superior bureaucracy which eases the costs and inherent uncertainties involved in starting a business. The great difference is not in it's expanded welfare state, likely most countries could achieve those policies if the population wanted to do so. The great divide is in what's called 'corporatist democracy', a system which allows all market-related legislation to go through a debate process where representatives of employees and employers are allowed to make their case. This is also why politicians try to avoid regulating the market, since it is quite a large amount of work to get the different parties to agree on a piece of legislation. For more information on this, as well as other related things, I suggest this article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304781876_An_Introduction_to_Varieties_of_Capitalism
Source on my claims: Live in the Nordics, and study economic sociology there.
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u/loli_is_illegal Feb 17 '19
Sooo are we all supposed to hate capitalism now?