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Population of Sweden: 9.995 million Population of USA: 325.7 million What makes people think any Swedish model can work large scale in the US?
by cheez 8y ago
Population of Sweden: 9.995 million
Population of USA: 325.7 million
What makes people think any Swedish model can work large scale in the US?
- colordrops 8y agoAll I see is two numbers, and absolutely no argument as to why that makes any difference.
- x3n0ph3n3 8y agoScale matters. If you don't think so, look at Bubble Sort. It works just fine if you're list size is trivially small. Now try running it on a list with a size > 1 million.
- colordrops 8y agoOk, but that still doesn't explain why this particular difference in scale matters.
- cheez 8y agoOK, pick a Swedish program and hypothetically scale it to the USA.
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- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI think the idea may be that human societies (and governments) don't scale linearly. That's at least plausibly true. Is it a large enough effect to be relevant? I don't know. Or, the idea may be that smaller countries are more socially cohesive (fewer degrees of separation between people), and therefore it's politically an easier sell to ask people to contribute to the welfare of others.
- multibit 8y agoWhat makes you think it won't?
- cheez 8y agoIs there a single country the scale of the US you know of that has the same social structure as Sweden?