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Re:Workers in Portugal could see healthier work-life balance... by pelasaco on Monday November 08, 2021 @12:08PM (#29151438)
We tend to talk about "socialism" in Portugal, but few countries that I know are more neoliberal than Portugal. Almost everything is private or is managed by private companies. Portugal is one of the few countries which exchanges visa for money. Our approach to Uber and Airbnd was until 2019, pretty liberal. I'm not saying that is right or wrong, just that even though the people vote for socialism, what we get in the end is neoliberalism.
Re:Workers in Portugal could see healthier work-life balance... by whimsicalism on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:27PM (#29153150)
Portugal has nothing on the anglosphere here, but yes is probably liberal by European standards.
Re:Workers in Portugal could see healthier work-life balance... by galfarragem on Monday November 08, 2021 @04:22PM (#29154451)
Not correct. Locals get socialism. Foreigners ultra capitalism. Portugal is a tax haven but only for foreigners. We exchange EU visas and tax isentions for money to sustain the socialist ideology.
Re:Workers in Portugal could see healthier work-life balance... by JetSpiegel on Thursday November 11, 2021 @08:26PM (#29195356)
> We exchange EU visas and tax isentions for money to sustain the socialist ideology.

What? The Golden Visa program was created by the liberal government of Passos Coelho. It's legalized corruption (the head of a government agency was even arrested in connection with this a while back), putting upward pressure on the housing market, than the money earned by the visas themselves.