Re:Did Scandinavia become welfare states because individuali...
by 8bitsrule on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @07:49PM
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This is a weak-ass postulate. Where to even start?
Individualism wasn't responsible for the poverty, lack of land for newborns, depressions, war and political oppression that caused Europeans to move to the U.S.
Not to mention the 'agents' of U.S. companies looking for workers who were sent to Europe to promise the 'individualists' anything. Or the Homestead Act ... it's pretty hard to get more socialistic than more-or-less giving away a quarter-acre of land to all comers in return for a weak promise.
Individualism wasn't responsible for the poverty, lack of land for newborns, depressions, war and political oppression that caused Europeans to move to the U.S.
Not to mention the 'agents' of U.S. companies looking for workers who were sent to Europe to promise the 'individualists' anything. Or the Homestead Act ... it's pretty hard to get more socialistic than more-or-less giving away a quarter-acre of land to all comers in return for a weak promise.