Re:Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy...
by coldtea on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:46PM
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>For example, the Singapore model can't scale. It's based on rich people and corporations arbitraging the international fiscal system. You can't have another Singapore without having another East Asia and West with it. Swiss is definitively a privileged place that is benefiting from the overall wealth of Europe and many other countries.
Well, concerning "match better work culture and comparable or better standards of living than the US" you could use any Nordic country too, which doesn't depend on a specific financial situation like Switzerland does with banking.
An even more apt question: does the American model scale -- without 1+ century of wars, meddling in foreign countries, befriending and installing dictators and friendly lackeys in power, resource grabbing, and the huge military that ensures all that is possible?
For Britain and France, their similar colonial past it didn't work that well in the end.
Well, concerning "match better work culture and comparable or better standards of living than the US" you could use any Nordic country too, which doesn't depend on a specific financial situation like Switzerland does with banking.
An even more apt question: does the American model scale -- without 1+ century of wars, meddling in foreign countries, befriending and installing dictators and friendly lackeys in power, resource grabbing, and the huge military that ensures all that is possible?
For Britain and France, their similar colonial past it didn't work that well in the end.