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Social Democracies are the happiest nations on earth. Study results.

RetiredUSN said:
Oh look! A labor shortage! Looks like another bogus Lafayette post.

How long are you going to keep up with your nonsense?
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For as long as economic know-nothings put BS-remarks up on an Economics Debate-Forum!

For instance, you assume that there in no poverty in America because there exists a labor shortage. The two characteristics are not related! Successive high-rates of poverty have been in existence for almost half a century in the US. Poverty is ingrained - while unemployment comes and goes and comes back again.

But the Rightist Dorks on this debate-forum refuse to accept or debate the statistical foundation of such numbers. They give rejoinders typical of yours. High rates of poverty AND low unemployment CAN AND DO COEXIST IN THE SAME ECONOMY.

Which is the case today!

And the US has been proving that outcome for a good number of decades:
Poverty_Rates_by_Age_1959_to_2011._United_States..PNG


Poverty does not disappear because YOU refuse to admit it exists ...
 
Lafayette said:
For as long as economic know-nothings put BS-remarks up on an Economics Debate-Forum!

For instance, you assume that there in no poverty in America because there exists a labor shortage. The two characteristics are not related! Successive high-rates of poverty have been in existence for almost half a century in the US. Poverty is ingrained - while unemployment comes and goes and comes back again.

But the Rightist Dorks on this debate-forum refuse to accept or debate the statistical foundation of such numbers. They give rejoinders typical of yours. High rates of poverty AND low unemployment CAN AND DO COEXIST IN THE SAME ECONOMY.

Which is the case today!

And the US has been proving that outcome for a good number of decades:
Poverty_Rates_by_Age_1959_to_2011._United_States..PNG


Poverty does not disappear because YOU refuse to admit it exists ...
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Blah! Blah! Blah!

Every single healthy person in America can choose to raise themselves out of poverty...………..a point that you fail to make with every one of your anti American socialistic threads.

You are, and always have been, a waste of bandwidth on here with your nonsense.
 
Hi Lafayette, I don't believe I've seen your posts before, but this is certainly interesting, and worthy of some thought and discussion. I have no idea why the very idea of such societies gets the right wing all crazy, and yelling anti - American. The definition you provided:

Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy. The protocols and norms used to accomplish this involve a commitment to representative and participatory democracy; measures for income redistribution and regulation of the economy in the general interest; and welfare state provisions.

Social democracy thus aims to create the conditions for capitalism to lead to greater democratic, egalitarian and solidarity outcomes; and is often associated with the set of socioeconomic policies that became prominent in Northern and Western Europe
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seems rather in sync with many American ideals. "measures of income redistribution" probably is the phrase that sets off the crazy.
 
RetiredUSN said:
You are, and always have been, a waste of bandwidth on here with your nonsense.
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Then why do you keep responding to me?

There is an option called "Ignore". Please go there and opt-me out.

Bye, bye - and THANX!
 
CLAX1911 said:
I don't see how you have an objective measure of happiness.
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Because "happiness" is subjective.....different things to different people.
What makes me happy will not always make the next person happy.
 
Polar Bum said:
Because "happiness" is subjective.....different things to different people.
What makes me happy will not always make the next person happy.
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Yeah that and we have people who are just down in the dumps about Donald Trump being the president it bothers him to the very core of their being that might be thrown off the average.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Blah! Blah! Blah!

Every single healthy person in America can choose to raise themselves out of poverty
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Typical Libertarian nonsense. You keep thinking that poverty is a choice - whatever helps you sleep at night.
 
Aristaeus said:
Typical Libertarian nonsense. You keep thinking that poverty is a choice - whatever helps you sleep at night.
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How can you make a statement like this when I did not say what you are accusing me of.


I said ...........................….EVERY SINGLE HEALTHY PERSON CAN CLIMB OUT OF POVERTY.


So try again.
 
Are you ever in the wrong forum. What you know about economics would fit a thimble.

Moving right along ...
 
RetiredUSN said:
How can you make a statement like this when I did not say what you are accusing me of.


I said ...........................….EVERY SINGLE HEALTHY PERSON CAN CLIMB OUT OF POVERTY.


So try again.
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Of course they can't. Some can, but not all.
 
Aristaeus said:
Typical Libertarian nonsense. You keep thinking that poverty is a choice - whatever helps you sleep at night.
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The idea of "it's all their fault" generally does bother me. While I think actual effort does has an effect on poverty, there's other factors to account for.

If someone inherits one million bucks just because he had a rich relative, he isn't rich because he worked to be rich, he's rich because of dumb luck. This is a major thing to consider.

It's similar to how people caring for their body can influence whether they ever get sick - it doesn't mean that it's all their fault when they get cancer with no prior signs of it happening. Sometimes stuff just happens, that's life. Some people also have natural disadvantages. Not to play the "race card", but people of ethnic minorities generally have more trouble getting hired, for example.

So, I see some level of truth in "they should work harder", but it's tragically ignoring the major influence simple dumb luck has in people's lives. Life isn't fair.
 
In most cases along with my experience, the "golden middelway" is the best. Social Democracy is the hybrid from capitalism and socialism - so yeah, I believe it´s the best compromise for the peple.
 
RetiredUSN said:
That is BS.

If you want it bad enough and put in the effort...….you will succeed.
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If hard work was the cure, African women would be the richest people on earth.
 
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