The resources the welfare state are spending are going towards housing, food, health care and disability for a certain percentage of Sweden's population.
When Gunnar Mogensen says 'We can't afford it' I think he is really saying 'we can't afford to feed, house and care for 100% of our people'.
Am I the only one that was irked by the article glancing over the fact that some percentage of Sweden's people are becoming far less economically secure?
Making life really good for a small percentage of your people is an easy, solved problem. All you have to do is use government to shave away resources from the majority and pocket them. Even the dictator of North Korea can do this.
Making life good for 100% of the people is an incredibly hard problem to solve.
My problem with articles like this one is that they don't really think throwing some percentage of the people over board and saying good luck is a problem.
Sometimes they make utilitarian arguments. I find these unconvincing based on the data.
When Gunnar Mogensen says 'We can't afford it' I think he is really saying 'we can't afford to feed, house and care for 100% of our people'.
Am I the only one that was irked by the article glancing over the fact that some percentage of Sweden's people are becoming far less economically secure?
Making life really good for a small percentage of your people is an easy, solved problem. All you have to do is use government to shave away resources from the majority and pocket them. Even the dictator of North Korea can do this.
Making life good for 100% of the people is an incredibly hard problem to solve.
My problem with articles like this one is that they don't really think throwing some percentage of the people over board and saying good luck is a problem.
Sometimes they make utilitarian arguments. I find these unconvincing based on the data.