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Nordic social democracy isn’t magic, it’s just what you get when most workers are in a union.

• oh_sigh 7y ago
  Congo has about the same population as Norway. I wonder if you'd get the same results if most people were unionized there.
  • stjohnswarts 7y ago
    No but it would get somewhat better. You also need great education, a respect for science (rather than superstition), political stability, and good infrastructure. Right now that doesn't exist, but unionization could help it along. Fewer warlords would also help.
  • viburnum 7y ago
    When Norway’s labor movement started it was a desperately poor country, so poor that roughly half its population had recently emigrated to America. Some scholars think that the capitalist class felt it had to concede a little to labor or it would simply all move away. There’s some evidence for this in the way elites started promoting free education during that time.