Sweden: A Supermodel for America?
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If productivity and efficiency is the meaning of life, why don't you just replace yourself with a robot and go die - you are obsolete. And if it is so inefficient, how come Sweden has so many successful global companies and artists? All this from a country that is equal to a small US state. Why don't you pick any state in the US that is on similar longitude/latitude with similar population and compare; which one is more economically successful? Then look at poverty, too.
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No, I mean culture as a whole.
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I would agree that immigration has reached a limit, where it is no longer feasible to accept immigrants in large numbers. This, in addition to placing them all together in a neighborhood has failed them and us Swedes in terms of integrating to Swedish society. They have no incentive to learn language and custom, when they don't have to interact with Swedes. The thing is that the more refugees we accept, the more political favor Sweden gets from other countries.
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@rninic /edit/ except that number will decrease now with the overwhelming immigration...
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@rninic when you're referring to the culture, are you mostly referring to religion? because as far as I know Sweden is the most atheistic/non religious country in the world (45-80%)
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I live in Sweden and anyone who wants to model their country after Sweden must be an idiot or want to bring their country down.. Becaust this country is going down the drain. The anti-Swedish laws, the extreme political correctness, the pseudo-democracy where free opinion is surpressed.. Immigration runs unchecked, and so does crime and to an increasing degree unemployment and the state's finances. (soon they've sold everything to cover up the fact that there simply isn't enough money)
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Private schools destroyed Sweden. Sweden grew rich because the state owned the most important industries. Now we have hell in neoliberalism, everything is worse today.
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Sweden had strikes, riots and revolutions in the beginning of the 1900s too get a more socialist society. There was not much faith in the state until the socialists made a pact with the capitalists and started then to build socialism. But when we were going to take the last step on a reformist way to a socialist society and introduced wage founds the capitalists was scared. The wage founds would mean workers rule over the means of production. But capitalists won and now we have neoliberalism.
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Sweden is like California but little cold. I love coming to that country.
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@jrgenkratz Vad fan har det med saken och göra? Våra kvinnor bör få klä sig hur fan dem vill, det gör det inte mer rätt att få våldta en kvinna för att dem klär sig på ett visst sätt, det är alltid den som våldtar som gör fel...
Herrejävlar vad bra engelska den lilla tjejen kunde :O
aidiwashere 3 weeks ago 31
The Swedish model is unique and would be almost impossible to emulate, because it would require a *cultural* change. Swedes have always had trust in each other and in the authorities. It is extremely difficult to accomplish and would require an outspoken long-term strategy to create that sort of trust in a society - especially where corruption is prevalent. Anybody can take economic action, but changing people's minds...
The single most important factor of the Swedish model is its culture.
rninic 1 week ago 7