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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
...I asked, about the incentives to work? He couldn't come up with anything other than freedom and pride. However; he did say that young educated people have extreme difficulties finding work in most areas and get quickly discouraged and disinterested in looking for work. Even manual labour jobs are not easy to find...
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I went to school in Sweden over the last year and I am now back in Calgary. I loved it, and I love their social structure, and I would welcome it here in a heartbeat. I found most of what I was told about the negatives of socialism to be completely false.
I just wanted to add, to what you were saying, that I found Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany (countries I spent a bit of time in) to be very innovative and industrious. I was surprised that Sweden has more billionaires per capita then the USA. I remember being told the "socialism = laziness" thing in high school and it couldn't be farther from the truth. People get 'lazy' when there's no hope.
I think strategic government interference (invisible hand) is a good thing, especially when the people voting the government in are generally well informed/educated. People were really involved in politics there and really keep their political parties accountable.
Of course there were downfalls though, nowhere is perfect.