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I am aware of the numbers...but I don’t think they paint the whole picture. But that’s besides the point, the point I was trying to make is that America worked
by rock_hard 8y ago
I am aware of the numbers...but I don’t think they paint the whole picture.
But that’s besides the point, the point I was trying to make is that America worked much better for a person like me.
Likewise I can imagine a place like Europe working better for some folks.
If only people had free mobility...maybe everybody could just love in a place that works for them
- zozbot123 8y ago> If only people had free mobility...maybe everybody could just love in a place that works for them It would be nice to have free mobility + something like a low-level UBI, for people who really need to be helped and not fall through the cracks. A rather low UBI that focused on just ensuring the basic necessities of life would most likely be quite affordable (e.g. in terms of overall tax burden, or fraction of GDP), and probably wouldn't even be perceived as "socialism". Then we'd probably see places like Europe lose a lot of their former attractiveness as they'd be left trying to manage their unwieldly, dinosaur-socialist states, as anyone with even the tiniest shred of ambition and initiative left would immediately flee for the more open parts of the world.
- softawre 8y agoIf you are so inclined, can you explain what the whole picture shows?
- rock_hard 8y agoYou always need to augment your quantitative data with qualitative data. I intended to provide more of the later