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jahaja | 5 years ago
That would suggest that the median US citizens enjoys a much higher living standard and quality of life than a Sweden, this is not the case.
No amount of historical revisionism by neo-liberal think tanks can repaint the success of Scandinavian Social Democracy as a Free Market success.
It's frankly pathetic to even attempt it, you're just clutching at straws with wild connections, I mean look at these statements:
> By 2005, the gap in life expectancy between Scandinavian countries and both the UK and the US had shrunk considerably. Iceland, with a moderately sized welfare sector, has over time outpaced the four major Scandinavian countries in terms of life expectancy and infant mortality.
You must understand that it's easier to improve from a low point than to creep closer to 100%? Also, Sweden have gone through a neo-liberal free market privatization free-for-all since the 1990, this has naturally caused inequality to soar, which is the usual cause of things like unequal access care.
> Hong Kong and Singapore, the two most free market jurisdictions in the world over the last several decades, have caught up to and surpassed Scandinavia in key measures of quality of life, like life expectancy, despite being far behind them in 1960.
Once again, of course? They have started from a lower under-developed starting point? Also, looking at the actual rankings:
2. Denmark
4. Finland
7. Iceland
10. Norway
13. Sweden
16. United States
34. Singapore
71. Hong Kong
What's even your point? Still looks pretty good for Scandinavian countries, don't it? Seems like staunch free market focus is not required to me.
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