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> Nobody like taking handouts and they'd much rather take care of their own families instead. This hypothesis has been demonstrably untrue for a long time now.
by pleistocene 4y ago
> Nobody like taking handouts and they'd much rather take care of their own families instead.
This hypothesis has been demonstrably untrue for a long time now. UN reports from 2019-2022 consistently found Finland and Denmark to be the two happiest countries on Earth [1] and their governments provide some of the strongest welfare programs of any country [2].
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report
[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model#Nordic_welfare_model https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model#Nordic_welfare_...