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I've always found Switzerland pretty authoritarian. Try hang out your washing on the wrong day of the week/in the wrong place.
by Angostura 7y ago
I've always found Switzerland pretty authoritarian. Try hang out your washing on the wrong day of the week/in the wrong place.
- chinathrow 7y agoThat anecdote has nothing in common how the swiss gov/democracy works though.
- vstm 7y agoExactly, there are no laws against being a Bünzli.
- _trampeltier 7y agoYes, but a the same time that is the reason, why we have no Elon Musk in switzerland.
- auiya 7y agoIs that a bad thing?
- chinathrow 7y agoAgain, how are these two statements even remotely correlated? Asking for a Bünzli.
- underlines 7y agoThat's fine. They have hundrets of Elon Musks who innovate. https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/gii-2019-report https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/gii-2019-report
- halest 7y agoSo what would happen? You would get punished for causing inconvenience to a person who had a right to hang their washing on that day? Sounds very reasonable, how is that authoritarian?
- fsloth 7y agoThat's not authoritarianism. "Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. " I'm sure you could create a political movement to make it by law easier to hang out your washing where you like.
- claudeganon 7y agoAuthoritarianism: Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom. ...which is entirely compatible with enforcement of high-pressure, in-group norms. Shunning is an authoritarian practice, even if it’s done by a collective. See also the Cultural Revolution in China.
- jotm 7y agoThat's what I mean by "free" as in freedom. It's a democratic country, not a very free one.
- rlpb 7y agoI understand that this would also be a problem in certain types of US neighborhoods.