"How much would we fear any technology, whether A.I. or some other technology, how much would you fear it if we lived in a world that was a lot like Denmark or if the entire world was run sort of on the principles of one of the Scandinavian countries?"
Would be interesting to hear what HN thinks those principles are. I often find the Scandies are seen in a idealized light, everyone just thinks everything is great there. In many ways, it IS great there.
But consider:
- Margrethe Vestager, that EU lady who talks a lot about the power of tech, is Danish.
- Danes are not entirely convinced that there's a lot if social mobility there. They talk about social inheritance, where it turns out you'll probably do better if your parents did well in terms of getting educated.
- There's no minimum wage law, though de facto there's a sort of social contract between unions and business.
- It's easy to fire people, in contrast to many European countries.
Would be interesting to hear what HN thinks those principles are. I often find the Scandies are seen in a idealized light, everyone just thinks everything is great there. In many ways, it IS great there.
But consider:
- Margrethe Vestager, that EU lady who talks a lot about the power of tech, is Danish.
- Danes are not entirely convinced that there's a lot if social mobility there. They talk about social inheritance, where it turns out you'll probably do better if your parents did well in terms of getting educated.
- There's no minimum wage law, though de facto there's a sort of social contract between unions and business.
- It's easy to fire people, in contrast to many European countries.