I know I know, this is low tier trash. I just thought the sudden "plot twist" at the end was funny.

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  • Hexboare [they/them]
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    3 days ago

    Nordic model doesn't even exist anymore, got mostly eaten by capitalism over the last decade and a half

    • Gorb [they/them]
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      3 days ago

      Pretty sure Norways also depended on having lots of oil money and not being invaded by America for said oil

    • Lemister [none/use name]
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      3 days ago

      real answer. It died alongside the other european welfare-states when it was no longer needed to placate soviet influence.

    • mayo_cider [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      Nordic countries are currently speedrunning neoliberalism and privatization of all public services

    • StillNoLeftLeft [none/use name, she/her]
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      2 days ago

      The little time it did exist was maybe a ten year period or so in total. The dismantling of it was started in the 80s and went to full swing in the early 90s when the Soviet Union fell. In Finland the government took the IMF fully in and pledged to privatize and halt the advance of a welfare state in 1992.

      It's such a pet peeve for me to see the Nordic model used in AmeriKKKan rhetoric as a thing that exists, it barely ever managed to exist.