paredler
Student
- Jul 31, 2022
- 191
The scandinavian countries have a very comprehensive welfare system, but they're still capitalist, with class disparities, wage gaps and people who are considered "poor". The scandinavian countries are capitalism with good welfare, but it's still capitalism. Theoretically, one day these states can run out of capital and will no longer have enough to asist their people. It's not like these countries work on a completely different economic system, it's not like they organize their society in a completely different way than the U.S. The only difference is how much welfare assistance is there, but it's assistance.e it's not like poor people manage to live on their own without government help, they are dependant on external help in a free market economy. By the way, even though the scandinavian countries managed to eliminate homelessness completely, they didn't do it by building more houses, but by different ways. The country doesn't necessarily produce more of the things that are in scarcity are necessary for survival. They government just buys it for them. Also, there's no direct workplace democracy or employee empowerment. If there is a democracy in the workplace, it's a very indirect one. Its the government assistance that allows you to have some bargaining power against your workplace, but it's not like you "own the means of production".
