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> There are already many countries with generous welfare states where one does not have to work and could theoretically live off the government, yet they manage
by prepend 5y ago
> There are already many countries with generous welfare states where one does not have to work and could theoretically live off the government, yet they manage just fine.
I didn’t know there were any countries like this? Would you please link to a few?
- monkeynotes 5y agoProbably alluding to the Scandinavian countries. One or two of them tried out UI for a limited time. In France they have very generous unemployment benefits, but you pay for them with heavy taxation which has its own problems .
- JSavageOne 5y agoI'm not deeply familiar with welfare policies, but anecdotally it sounds like much of Europe - the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, along with others like Germany - have very generous welfare states, where I believe (someone can correct me if I'm wrong) one could basically live off of welfare indefinitely if they wanted to. In Switzerland, apparently it's possible to work for 2 years, quit your job, then keep something like 60% of your old salary for 2 years until you find your next job. Yet this isn't something that many people actually do. In Denmark, university students get paid a UBI. Someone else mentioned taxation. Taxing land value would be the fairest tax and reduce the tax burden on labor, yet none of these countries really do that.