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is always the cliche rosy picture of bigger government and welfare society. ...which works very well in Western Europe, where you don't have to worry losing ev
by danieldk 10y ago
is always the cliche rosy picture of bigger government and welfare society.
...which works very well in Western Europe, where you don't have to worry losing everything when you get ill, lose your job, etc.
I am in favor of a fair bit of (regulated) capitalism. But in the US people are taught that capitalism is good and socialism is bad [1], and the industry at large exploits it to get extremely cheap labor.
There is a life outside work.
[1] How universal healthcare can be bad is beyond me. The US spends more on healthcare per capita than Western European countries and has worse outcomes. See e.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/09/which-country-has-worlds-best-healthcare-system-this-is-the-nhs https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/09/which-countr...
- saiya-jin 10y ago> ...which works very well in Western Europe, where you don't have to worry losing everything when you get ill, lose your job, etc. but it doesn't. plenty of people here are fed up with what EU became (westernized soviet union with idiotic central panning out of touch with reality out there in member states on the inside, super-weak 'power' on the outside). Swiss were clever (or lucky) enough to vote to NOT join EU and they thrive beyond what is anywhere in EU - smallish government, relatively little taxation, more freedom than rest of europe will ever experience. They have very generous social net for unemployment too.