My professor glorifies "democratic socialism" and repeatedly alludes to Nordic countries to substantiate his assertion that socialism is the best economic system. I want him to get btfo. His main contention is that a slightly higher tax rate leads to free healthcare, college, maternal leave, and an overall higher quality of living. Give me the real data, and I will destroy him and upload the video on youtube.
Need info on Nordic countries
Thomas Young
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Jayden Johnson
It works because of nords. Can't work for niggers.
Daniel Edwards
It works out for homogenos populations because of high trust.
Look at socialist Venezuela and the other Socialist shitholes that have existed throughout history.
Isaiah Wood
The main thing that holds up the social liberalist economies of the Nordic countries is a common cultural identity. The statistics don't lie, the system does work but only if you, as a country, work to make it work. It'd, at the very least, take decades to change the cultural consciousness of the US public to enable a system that approaches the fuctioning Nordic ones.
And, of course, you run the risk of ending up like Sweden of Venezuela.
Luke Harris
Well, tell your professor, that he should stop listening to B*rnie Sanders because we are not socialist in the first place. We are social democracies with free and open market.
The means of production are primarily owned by private individuals - not the government. Our production is mostly driven by private companies. Resources are also distributed to their respective uses by the market - not by the government.
An extensive welfare state (w/ social safety net and universal health care) is not the same thing as socialism.
Jaxon Barnes
Healthcare is free sure you've got long lines but small payments from doctor visit but private doctor is different case or long line well depends really but I consider 30 minutes of waiting long. College sure free but you still gotta pay for your books. Still though overall quality of living is good. This system would not work for you though, you're too big.
Oliver Hernandez
>muh nordic nations are socialist
I fucking hate this goddamn leftist meme that wont fucking die
Hudson Scott
Don't listen to these faggots, most of the successful "socialist" countrys were capatalist for years before. Even when they adopted "socialism" it was just minor public service, like single payer healthcare, public utility, and welfare.
Ryder Moore
They have higher taxes on labour mostly, used to finance a larger welfare state. Other than that the markets at least as free as the US. Hardly socialism.
Jeremiah Foster
But you aren't even any more fucking socialist than us. The left only likes you because they are fucking retarded and don't understand that you are a white capitalist nation just like every other productive nation in the world.
Ian Wood
Please don't compare us to Venezuela, they are actual socialists and we are not.
Besides, they follow the Marxist variant of socialism, whereas we have created our own thing (it has many names: Nordic social democracy, Nordic capitalism etc.) through something called 'Nordic Model'.
AGAIN, we are not socialists!
Hudson Morgan
/tröd
Elijah Rodriguez
Democratic socialism is not real socialism. Hitler and Stalin were both highly effective leaders. Sweden's system has very little in common with true socialism.
James Hill
>Democratic socialism
It's just Marxist socialism that is trying to be nice at first so retarded niggers vote for it. Venezuela is, by definition, an example of democratic socialism; the Nordic nations are capitalist nations that have retarded leftist social programs (that will collapse eventually). The is no such thing as actual democratic socialism just as there is no such thing as communism. Neither can physically exist in the real world and attempting to create ether just leads to mass starvation, death, and societal destruction. They are on par with cult religions whose members are trying to reach a utopian heaven on earth by killing themselves.
Benjamin Carter
The Nordic model-system created by the Nordic countries (primarily Scandinavia) will never work in a multiracial state as the US. Because the system is very highly dependent on high-trust and people not abusing it.
People do not give one fuck about each other in the United States. They do not have the same fraternity and tribal relationship they have in Scandinavia (or Europe for that matter).
Isaac Brown
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Hunter Young
white market > white socialism > non-white market > non-white socialism
Jason Clark
It works because the USA pays for their defense. It's the only way they can maintain that degree of leftism is not to have a large enough military for self defense. This goes for both money and votes, as the military costs out the ass and votes right.
Directly speaking, Socialism works if other countries and superpowers are protecting your interests.
Joshua Harris
why is it never refugees like in your pic?
Jordan Howard
BRAAAAAAAP
Anthony Young
We protected ourselves just fine after WW2 faggot and yes we cheated a bit because our infrastructure wasn't blown up as some other countries were after the war but there is nothing wrong with a 95% white socialist high IQ country as long as you don't go overboard on the gibs which disincentivizes working
Niggers and browns can't pull off socialism because the piece of wealth that gets shared with their shitty nigger pie is too small to make a decent society. Whites with high IQ and high empathy live in 0 crime paradise with mild socialism
Blake Powell
We're not socialists. We're capitalists. Your professor is shit.
Josiah Clark
By and large, we’re a capitalist country. If you’re looking for socialist countries, you should rather think of South American countries such as Venezuela or Bolivia, where the state has, or attempts to have, full control over the economy.
There is no such attempt by the Norwegian government. Anyone can start their own company, and the overall economy is dictated by the market. As in most western countries, personal liberty is held to be of very high importance.
However, there is also an important cultural principle in Norway that everyone should be taken care of. Solidarity with its people, rich or poor, is in many Norwegians’ minds an important task of the state. I will stress again, however, that this does not mean that we are a socialist country. It is simply part of our culture, and it bleeds into policy decisions taken by the state. For example, anyone can get generous loans to get take higher education, regardless of their parents’ background, and health care is affordable (though not free except in certain circumstances, which is a common misconception). Of course, such policies must be financed through relatively high taxes, mostly for the rich (which is deemed fair).
None of this involves the government controlling or planning the economy. It is simply a way for the state to use the benefits of the capitalist economy to help people regardless of background, ensuring - or at least trying to - a decent standard of living for all.
The closest we come to socialism is that the state partly or fully owns a few companies that are deemed especially important for the development of the Norwegian state. Examples are Statoil, the national oil company, NRK, the national broadcaster (similar to BBC), and NSB, the national rail.
~95% of industries are ruled by capitalism, however. We just use the benefits of those markets in a slightly different way than other prominent Western nations, due to the large role solidarity plays in our culture.
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Julian Carter
Your professor is a fucking tart. However most has been said already and the trend is turning now most of Scandinavias socialdemocratic parties are getting less votes. The most common form of employment in Sweden is self employment or small business, which to me sounds pretty capitalist to me
Robert Green
Some reason here. Polacks and republicans would rather their fellow Americans starve in the streets riddled with disease then pay a cent more in taxes
Austin Campbell
Leo Johnson
which is obviously why Sweden and most of Scandinavia is now going to shit, because of the high amount of immigrants abusing our system
Evan Richardson
Nuance bro just did a video on this exact subject. Check jewtube