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Isn’t that the case in a lot of countries, though? Even if you can make more somewhere else, you’re still likely to spend your life in the same way — ie, workin
by ptr 6y ago
Isn’t that the case in a lot of countries, though? Even if you can make more somewhere else, you’re still likely to spend your life in the same way — ie, working “halfway on the road to serfdom”.
- bjornsing 6y agoDefinitely. It can be said for large parts of Europe. But I have a feeling it’s a bit more culturally pronounced in the Nordics... E.g. whenever parliament passes a new budget all the papers write articles with headlines like “Here Are The Winners And Losers” full of analysis of which groups will receive more/less money from the gov. Another example is that salaries of different professions are almost entirely determined by union deals, which in turn are decided by political clout. So it’s a feeling that the whole economy is “rigged”, but in a way that’s good for most people. It’s great in many ways, but I think the serfdom feeling can get more pronounced here and in most other regions.