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We already know that the Netherlands and Sweden outpace the US in income inequality given the Credit Suisse report:
"With a Gini Index of 0.852, the United States ranks as the country with the fourth highest amount of income inequality. Below are the ten countries with the highest inequality and the ten with the lowest, according to the report.
10 Countries With The Highest Amount Of Income Inequality (Based On Gini Index)
Netherlands: 0.902
Russia: 0.879
Sweden: 0.867
United States: 0.852"
"The top 1 percent in Sweden now own a greater share of the country’s wealth than the top 1 percent in the United States, according to Credit Suisse’s 2018 Global Wealth Report."
I gave you the link to the original Credit Suisse report, and it is also in your forbes link. In the ORIGINAL report 0.852 for US and 0.879 for Russia are the Gini numbers for WEALTH inequality, not INCOME, got it?
So I suggest to read critically before posting. The other two are not listed in the original report, so I'm not going to comment.
And lastly, if it is still not clear, the CIA world factbook link that I posted shows Gini values for INCOME inequality.
If you all like it so much, then go live in the Netherlands.
Course, you have to prove that you have something of value to them...maybe that's why some of you haven't left yet.
Yeah, from what I'm hearing some of those Nordic countries have real strict immigration laws. One of them I forget which one won't allow people to become full fledged citizens, I might be recalling that wrong, not sure. I do know that they don't let people in willy-nilly and as you've mentioned it is very merit based as it probably should be. You can't import tons of low skilled and poverty stricken people and also have very generous social benefits at the same time. It's common sense at some point here.
It was so poor that it wasnt even a target during WWII.
The hell it wasn't. You've obviously never heard of heavy water. And if it wasn't for a group of Norwegian saboteurs, Germany would have been the 1st to drop an atom bomb.
Go watch the movie "Heroes of Telemark" and then get back to me.
Except that time in April 1940 when the Germans invaded, and occupied Norway until May, 1945.
Yup. My mother's entire family, both sides, lived under that occupation for 5 years. Her parents had come to the US back in the 1920's. She says in all that time they had no idea if the family was alive or dead, because you couldn't get mail in or out of the country. To make matters worse, my grandfather died in 1942, leaving my grandmother to raise 2 daughters alone. 1st letter she received from Norway after the war ended the mail carrier stayed with her when she read it, in case it was bad news.
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Funny how OP leaves out that Finland doesn't have any private schools at all, and they pay their teachers well, and they have the best ranked education in the world
Funny how OP leaves out that Finland doesn't have any private schools at all, and they pay their teachers well, and they have the best ranked education in the world
Please Google birth rate + Finland
They are in crisis mode because their young couples are not having children. They are postponing having kids, having fewer kids, and some are having no kids. Some say its due to high taxation and couples dont feel like they can maintain their current lifestyle and have kids, but that is just opinions I've read. I have no facts on that.
I have also read that Finland is importing Single pregnant women from Russia. I'm serious.
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Please Google birth rate + Finland
They are in crisis mode because their young couples are not having children. They are postponing having kids, having fewer kids, and some are having no kids. Some say its due to high taxation and couples dont feel like they can maintain their current lifestyle and have kids, but that is just opinions I've read. I have no facts on that.
I have also read that Finland is importing Single pregnant women from Russia. I'm serious.
Your middle paragraph applies to America as well....
If you all like it so much, then go live in the Netherlands.
Course, you have to prove that you have something of value to them...maybe that's why some of you haven't left yet.
I couldn’t agree more with you. On top of that, moving there is like you move to another country at the same time as so many parts of The Netherlands have turned into, what looks to be Arabic country as entire areas are now like your abroad in a tiny Country that without traffic, you can drive in 3.5 from West to East, and 4.5 hours from North to South!
With 18 million people.
Good luck and for all the Nordic lovers, please go and pay the taxes over there...you will enjoy!
Maybe you will keep believing the false narratives, people who seem to love the Nordic ...what they try to claim, non socialistic system, is so much better than here.
There are so many people over there who will love to leave...
Enjoy watching “ik vertrek”, where people do the most stupidest things, to get out of there.
Funny how OP leaves out that Finland doesn't have any private schools at all, and they pay their teachers well, and they have the best ranked education in the world
They do have private schools, but they are not very popular.
Finland has common legislation for both private (state subsidized) and public (city or state owned) schools. Last year there were 85 private schools in Finland serving approximately 3% of the whole student population.
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