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Re:The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU by hef19898 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:07AM (#27996040)
Social security nets in Europe date back to time we used to have Emperors and Kings, before WW1. They are thus older than the USSR.
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Re:The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU by inglor_cz on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:34AM (#27996350)
Size matters and prior to the Cold War, social security nets were smallish, not least because the willingness to pay enough in taxes for their upkeep just wasn't there.

A difference between balloons and 747s.

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Re:The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU by qwytw on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:34AM (#27996349)
Bismarck mainly introduced some rudimentary social security to decrease worker support for socialist parties, so it was a reaction to socialism (albeit not directly the USSR) from the start. However before WW2 it was very limited in all countries (and much smaller scale than for example what's currently available in the US) before the 40's and 50's.
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