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Switzerland also doesn't have many poor people.
by corporate_shi11 7y ago
Switzerland also doesn't have many poor people.
- newyankee 7y agoclassic understatement but yes it helps to have a population that is well off, educated and can wisely make the decision.
- winter_blue 7y agoSwitzerland used to be quite poor until not long ago. It was a mostly subsistence farming country, and throughout the 1800s, it was a nation that people emigrated from.
- nutjob2 7y ago7% doesn't sound insignificant and is roughly comparable to other highly developed European countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Switzerland Also, local reporting on Swiss poverty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yI4ygNr5Mg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yI4ygNr5Mg
- pjmlp 7y agoSwitzerland does have quite a few poor people, the difference being that someone on the poverty limit in Switzerland still happens to look quite alright from the outside. The problem is that one cannot just look at income, rather what someone has to pay for as well, and in Switzerland you pay for everything. I think that many Swiss can relate to this, when I lived there we used to joke that only breathing is free.
- anoncake 7y agoDemocracy seems to be working quite well.