Huge oil and gas reserves also help out.
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Most of the Nordic countries do not have those. Norway has a lot, Denmark has a little, the others have nothing significant
It's taxation.
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Taxation + efficiency + [less open]corruption
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~~While many European countries were heavily into colonizing, I don't think the Nordic countries were that excessive into the practice. At least, not to have an empire to extract resources like Britain, France, Spain, etc did.~~
It would appear I was wrong on this take.
Nordic countries are subimperialist. They receive the benefits of unequal exchange, unfair trade agreements, technological advantage, and so on but rely on the explicit mechanisms of enforcement to come from prime imperialists pike the US.
Fair enough, I was unaware of the situation. I always heard of the big colonizing countries being responsible for a lot of issues, but I can see how that could still impact other countries.
It's less obvious but can see how the Nordic countries fall in line with imperialist structures. I'll expound a bit but it is not in any way in disagreement.
The nordic countries lend weight to unequal IP restrictions and dollarization and the IMF, they never do anything material against imperialist wars (they actually want a piece of the pie by providing arms), and now that they are accepting their role as NATO pawns they are increasing their military budgets, cutting the welfare state, and allowing their fascistic political foemations to thrive while suppressing the left. They all openly tolerate "Israeli" genocidal fascism and even carry water for their project against domestic dissidents. Nordic countries are deeply embedded in global capital monopoly, the engine of imperialism, whether it is Norway as a petrostate or shipping logistics like in Sweden and Denmark. And they do not do this reluctantly and with policy against imperialist aims. Internally, they are fanning the flames against POC immigrants as the big scapegoat for why their lives are materially deteriorating - not their own state's willing deindustrialization or cuts to services.
To put it simply, they are liberals. They briefly were the selective snapshot of "successful" liberalism if you didn't peek behind the curtain of global exploitation (who grew that "luxurious" pineapple and what were they paid!?). The global financial system propped up states in their region as a means by which to oppose communists, as if communists were there to steal your children or do the genocides that imperialists constantly engaged in. That system is no longer intentionally doing this, it is neoliberal and there is no communist current in Europe. We now watch it decay into the hallmarks of fascism. The empire is pulling back its subsidies, reversing them, and all of "Europe" is collaborating for how to react to this in the worst possible way.
Prove that us taxes are more corrupt than any nordic country? Okay here it goes: i have a brain. Thanks.
- superior white skin and blue eyes and blonde hair too?
Almost, it's imperialism. The Nordic model depends on the global system of imperialism to both have safety nets and huge profits for capitalists.
Capitalism is great, there’s a reason why Russia and China embrace it.
"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?" - Fidel Castro
What a braindead liberal take
I used to be a liberal before I realized they are apologists for Empire and their talk of morality and interconnectedness is just rhetorical shielding for resource extraction and, lately, genocide.
I wouldn’t call it “liberal” that sounds topical it sure is a brain dead take tho
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Wikipedia has a list of Chinese billionaires. Software Developer salaries in China are similar to salaries in the west. Laborers appear to make far less than owners. I do not know why an individual needs billions. Seems to violate, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs".
Maybe the billionaires do not own the capital their laborers use. Maybe the relationship between Chinese billionaire and worker is not exploitative as per the meme. Do the workers control their labor?
Yes, China has billionares. In fact, Roderic Day wrote an essay called China Has Billionaires, you should read it. Ultimately, what determines if a country is socialist or not is not if there are billionaires or not, and isn't about not having any private property at all or not. In the PRC, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned, and the small and medium firms are a mix of private, cooperative, and joint-stock ownership. The state has control over the capitalists, and the workers have control of the state. It's in the primary stage of socialism:
China is transitioning socialist, in the direction of capitalism xD
The large firms and key industries are publicly owned, and the economy is developing further and further along a coherent central plan. It's still in the primary stage of socialism, but it's only getting further developed, not regressing into capitalism:
