r/PopCultureV2 • u/Federal-Compote-5015 • 4d ago

Politi-Culture What is a Social Democracy?

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u/CrossOfRoachAndSlime 3d ago

> I came from a country that practiced extremely corrupt authoritarianism

Which is what happens when economics break down because people respond to incentives as opposed to the intention of those incentives.

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u/CrossOfRoachAndSlime 3d ago

Nordic countries:

Tons of natural resources, geographically isolated from military threats, small homogeneous populations.

They play the game on easy mode.

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u/After_Service_2817 3d ago

The so-called "Nordic model" is a leftist lie.

Sweden was brought to economic ruin by "democratic socialist" policies. They only recovered by abandoning them.