According to most libertarians, socialism ends in disaster. Redistribution of wealth and high taxes destroy the incentive to contribute to civilization, thus leading to failure. However, what about the oft-touted “bumblebee economies” of Scandinavian countries? Scandinavian countries have incredibl…

Damn it Anenome! I was so close! Look at what I have in my clipboard right now why don’t you?? pastes [image] The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism Economics Questions Many leftists often point to the “superiority” of Scandinavian “socialism.” Leftists often use …

Communalism is generally a viable way to order an economy, but it must be remembered that the modern world has built up far beyond what a communalized economy could sustain, meaning that a return to communalism such as our tribal forebears used, would mean a significant contraction of wealth and as …

So the answer would be that the welfare state in Scandinavia has coincided with its stagnation?

The Sweden Myth "All told, the recession became Sweden’s deepest by far since the Great Depression, with GDP in 1993 being 5% lower than in 1990, with employment falling more than 10%, and the budget deficit rising to more than 10% of GDP. By then Sweden had fallen to between 15th and 20th place in…

Here, for good measure, the other side of the coin: The Myth of the Failure of Capitalism "The nearly universal opinion expressed these days is that the economic crisis of recent years marks the end of capitalism. Capitalism allegedly has failed, has proven itself incapable of solving economic pro…

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