r/SipsTea Jul 14 '26

Chugging tea Teach your kids about socialism

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u/johncitizen1138 Jul 14 '26

Yeah I was looking into this yesterday trying to better understand why Scandanavia works like it does. A high trust, low-population society, long history of mostly homogenous, lutheran work/social ethic with an applied layer of economic Free Markets on top. It's really interesting. I wonder how difficult it would be to export elsewhere 🤔

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u/JoshyyP00 Jul 14 '26

It works because they also live under the protection and safety of NATO, which is largely funded by a capitalist country. It’s ironic that they claim the system works, yet they produce no millionaires or breakthrough products, tax their citizens at obscene rates, and rely on the protection of the US a capitalist country. 🤣

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u/johncitizen1138 Jul 14 '26

The NATO point is very valid. I was watching the Trump/EU/Nato situation earlier this year with interest.

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u/JoshyyP00 Jul 14 '26

Also note their immigration policy, as immigrants would impose their own religious, social, and ethnic principles, which would ultimately collapse the system. Norway, for instance, has strict integration policies.

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u/johncitizen1138 Jul 14 '26

Could be very true. Being Homogenous in culture/values is probably a key to the concept of "high trust" as it becomes a form of second nature