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There can be too much of everything and there was too much of "social democracy" in the 70s. Author Astrid Lindgren had to pay more than 100 % tax and wrote the
by mongol 7y ago
There can be too much of everything and there was too much of "social democracy" in the 70s. Author Astrid Lindgren had to pay more than 100 % tax and wrote the "childrens story" / opinion piece "Pomperipossa in Monismania"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania
Next election the social democrats lost it for the first time in 40 years.
- naravara 7y agoThat doesn't sound like "too much Social Democracy" so much as a badly designed law that had a weird edge case.
- mongol 7y agoIt is not proof in itself, far from it, but it was very debated at the time as indication of social democracy having gone to far. The fact remains, social democrats lost power at this time. However the new ruling parties were unable to reform properly. True reform only started to happen about 10 years later, in the mid 1980s or so. Johan Norberg in the documentary mentions the (social democratic) finance minister Kjell-Olof Feldt as influencal in bringing change about. I agree with that. Sweden today is very different from the 70s, politically.
- jabl 7y agoAFAIU Norberg is pretty far right [1] in Sweden, so not exactly how people there generally think. [1] Not far right as in Nazism, but as in pro capitalism, state intervention is communism (boo hiss!).