• Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Not true at all. Sweden has worse wealth equality than the US. Sure we have high income taxes, but basically no wealth or inheritance taxes. The only reason social democracy ever took off in Scandinavia was due to the fear of the nearby Soviet Union. The moment the Soviet Union collapsed all the countries of Scandinavia started dismantling the welfare and privatising.

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      An inconvenient truth is that life was a lot better for the working class in a lot of countries before the Soviet Union fell.