Nailed it with the last sentence
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Can someone explain what "+ retirement savings" means here? I'm trying to figure out what the comment means by that, like they're implying saving money for retirement isn't done in Europe?
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Hum... The name of that way to organize your bills is "socialism". That is, unless you restrict who gets access to it.
That's not socialism, at all. There's a huge difference between the government owning and controlling industries and services and the government paying for those goods and services.
the government owning and controlling industries and services
Are you trying to define communism here? Because it's not exactly that either. And socialism is absolutely not that.
Glorious social democracy of Denmark which rose its retirement age to literal fucking 70 years old. What a fucking joke.
Best answer ever
If we could only train everyone to loudly hiss whenever they hear GDP or Tax Rate used as a metric to gauge a country's value, a lot of people would be a lot better off.
Because they are smarter than this clown
Similar line of thought regarding public vs private service providers. There's nothing preventing public services from being as good as or better than private ones, but private ones will always want to extract more value than they provide as profit (which is the extra money left over after paying for everything, including staff). Plus they pay a whole team of people whose whole job is about maximizing profit, which can come at the expense of the quality of the service.
And with public vs private healthcare, there's a whole health insurance industry extracting wealth from the public for the privilege of limiting their healthcare options (otherwise the healthcare providers would be the ones doing the fleecing by recommending unnecessary procedures, which probably still happens anyways). And on top of that, there's an attitude of "just try it, even if it would be illegal, consequences are always avoided by backing down before it gets to court".
What an absolute badass!
Aren't they just transactions?