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Sweden’s too egalitarian society with a lot of people not being economically active. You are subsidizing unwilling and lazy with insane taxes and you get nothin
by theredbox 8y ago
Sweden’s too egalitarian society with a lot of people not being economically active. You are subsidizing unwilling and lazy with insane taxes and you get nothing in return because of equality. You are probably well off compared to them but still cant afford an apartment.
- Moru 8y agoThis path of discussion is always fun to watch when it comes up. Does it work better in America with the lazy people, are they working better just because they make less money? Most people in Sweden can actually live on one job even if it is as a cleaner. The people that you call lazy is a very small percentage of the population. And just about all of them has some physical or psycical problem preventing them from getting a job. It is not a choice they have to either go work or starve. Noone chooses to starve just because it's fun. This mentality is very upsetting for us that has seen reality and does not live in a glass house.
- badpun 8y agoNordic countries are maybe the best place on earth if you’re not gifted in any way (academically, dexterity for manual labor etc.) and thus you work as a cleaner or other unskilled labor. For software engineers, on the other hand, there are better options.
- vasilipupkin 8y agoNonsense as Sweden has more per capita billionaires than US and more unicorn startups per capita than most US cities
- theredbox 8y agoTalk about arbitrary numbers you used.
- vasilipupkin 8y agoThese directly refute the claim that Sweden is only a good place for people who lack talent
- badpun 8y agoMost billionaires inherit their wealth? As for startups, it would be better to see the success ratio (how many people tried to create a startup vs how many succeed) and not just the number of survivors.
- vasilipupkin 8y agoWe are discussing the claim that talented people can’t succeed in Sweden. Yet, higher per capita number of unicorns in Sweden than in many other places, including US, shows that this claim is false
- badpun 8y ago> We are discussing the claim that talented people can’t succeed in Sweden. Who made this claim? Certainly not me. I claimed that, for an ordinary software engineer (i.e. not a startup founder), life will be better/easier in many other European countries.
- booboolayla 8y ago> higher per capita number of unicorns in Sweden than in many other places, including US You can only come to that conclusion by diluting what a "unicorn" means.
- badpun 8y agoStatistics about billionairies or unicorn startup owners are not related to the way a middle class workers (say, software engineers) live.
- beefield 8y ago> Sweden’s too egalitarian society Any examples of societies that are unequal[1] enough for you? [1] Not sure about a proper antonym here.