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u/d3pd · 1 pointr/worldnews

>Do you think money grows on trees?

We already fund social benefits. The only immediate difference is making sure that the social benefits cannot be turned off.

>If we all stop workimg and wait for tne government to support us, then who would pay taxes and drive the economy?

Ehm, no, I'm suggesting people stop working, just that they have a basic income at all times (because they are human, and all humans need fundamental things like food and shelter). All that would really happen is that existing social benefits would not turn off and people who are already working would have their salaries reduced by the basic income amount by their employer (while they then get paid the basic income amount by government).

Wherever we've seen something like universal basic income implemented it has worked really well. The education and health goes way up and it inspires economic activity. The only real job change that happens is that fewer people do really shitty jobs, but that should be the case anyway. We want businesses to automate shitty jobs (that's why we see things like supermarket checkouts being automated).

There's a great book called Utopia for Realists that goes through the ideas and all of the test cases where it has been implemented. Just to be clear: we have a way of ending poverty. It is called universal basic income. It brings a whole pile of benefits along with it too. A bonus is that people are not constantly terrified of losing their jobs.

u/BruceJennerTesticles · 2 pointsr/MGTOW

Yup. Couple of excellent books if you want more depth on the myths (and problems, past/present/future) of the much touted "Nordic/Scandinavian Socialist Utopia" countries:

Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism

And the just recently published (written as a more "mainstream" general audience; whereas the above is more "academic" & formal):

Debunking Utopia: Exposing the Myth of Nordic Socialism

BTW the author, Nima Sanandaji, is a young guy who's family immigrated (from Iran) to Sweden in 1984 when he was only 3 years old -- so he was essentially raised & educated "Swedish" (and so essentially a "native" for all practical purposes, and yet also a bit of an "outsider" and able to examine the culture/society with less of an inherent bias, I suppose you could say without the fear of impugning his own "tribe").

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Basically the "BernieBots" are entirely clueless -- about the past, the present, AND the future -- when they attempt to use places like Sweden (Norway, Denmark, Finland, etc) as "exemplar" socialistic societies.

As to the present situation -- I'd say rather than any real "turnaround reform" what they are presently engaged in is "crisis management" (or perhaps more correctly all-too-predictable crisis MISmanagement) -- but quite frankly I think the steps they are taking are too little, and too late; they've overextended themselves in far too many ways (NOT just the immigrant situation), and the "unexpected" things that they are beginning to experience (and which will doubtless be growing worse during the next decade, even WITH the "slamming of the gates"), well they are only "unexpected" to the ideologically blindered.

And it's really NOT an exaggeration to call them that (ideologically blindered, or even "blinded") because they truly ARE: most of the residents have been thoroughly indoctrinated (at the deepest level of psyche) into a form of "self-thought-stopping" (ala 1984 or "Brave New World") that is far more ingrained than mere "politically correct" language; they literally do not, CANNOT see any "pattern" in what is right before their own eyes because to do so, to even "see" the patterns is to engage in a kind of subliminal "taboo" or "heresy." Hence they cannot discuss, debate, and therefore DO anything about the actual causes, but instead "dance around" the proverbial elephants in the room, pretending that the various problems in their society MUST have causes that are entirely NOT "elephant" related.

There are exceptions of course, but those types are either driven out, or else "flee" the insanity on their own accord, to wit: http://www.whyileftsweden.com/?cat=8 (Also, note the DATE on that entry -- it's from early 2012, more than 4 years ago before the current/present "crisis" and 3+ long years before the 2015 mass-influx of so called "Syrian refugees" -- the point being that Sweden has been having increasing problems attempting to "assimilate" immigrants for a couple of decades; something that I simply don't think is possible because the "socialist" Sweden has basically "gutted" everything that created the "swedsh" character that allowed the socialism to "work" even temporarily).

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And then of course there are also the "dirty little secrets" of the Swedish "model socialist society" -- things that basically just "aren't talked about" -- even though they are fully documented and are/were known to the population (at least by older Swedes, who were often complicit in them).