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CreativeDominant -> RE: Middle East & West - Western society forever changed (8/15/2016 2:25:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Edwird
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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
Tell you what, Edward...why don't you try discussing the article itself instead of deflecting away to the author's bio? If all that is stated in the article is wrong, come forth with articles that refute the sources and material in the article.
If you're going to start dismissing stuff based not on the sources and material within but the bio of the writer, you're going to have to start dismissing a lot. But there again...better to deflect and dismiss due to an unimportant point as to address the relevant stuff, isn't it?
The 55% income tax proclaimed vs the reality of 50% -highest rate- in Sweden eliminates any further consideration.
The destruction of value of 6+ million homes and 11+ million jobs in the US due to runaway financial deregulation is another fact.
Per capita GDP means nothing without any concomitant figures on distribution of wealth.
From the first paragraph:
"Sweden's most affront claim, that it has the world's highest standard of living, is often based on the measure of equality in wealth redistribution, and not on the status of the national economy, the buying power of the Swedish crown (Krona), the amount of people working for productive aims or creating innovations, nor it's Gross National Product. Claims based on these other properties of the Swedish economy, in support of their "highest standard of living" claim, are mysteriously non-existent.
Look at the first sentence. "Most affront claim."
I can see that you were hooked from the outset by that one, considering the awful English. I might have to take back what I said to blynymph. Even though you are not anywhere near representative of the US population, it is easy to see why others get the worst impression of us, even if not understanding that over simplification is working both ways in such determination.
But this gem: "equality in wealth redistribution,"
It's not 'redistribution' but lack of maldistribution to begin with, as exists in the US and other third world countries.
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"Sweden is a great place to start a new business - if you don't plan on being successful. A more lax economic policy in the '90s has increased new startups by 25%, but the economic attitude towards business hasn't changed much since the '70s, where entrepreneurs were treated like pariahs. Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad told Forbes magazine that the Swedish tax bureaucrats would frequently accuse him of using people and "only wanting profits"."
There is no source given at all for that claim, much less anything creditable. Which means that it's just opinion, as is everything else in the article.
But, what is this, yet another sob story of a whining wannabe? The Swedish billionaires are laughing at chumps like Ingvar Kamprad; "what a loser! ha ha!"
And yes, it does not escape notice here that cry babies scan the net daily to seek those of like weakness.
"Tell you what" CD, present something of a factual nature if you want any reasonable response. Otherwise, hold your farts while in public.
You're a grammar Nazi? The fact that "affront" was used instead of "upfront" leads you to dismiss the claim itself?
As I said, Edwird...all of these things can be found. In the Legatum Prosperity Index of 2012-2013, Sweden was stated to have the highest standard of living in the world. That has since fallen off by most other indexes. That took me all of 15 min. to find, in-between patients.
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