americans don’t understand this. they don’t understand that the capitalists in denmark and sweden spend every second of their days trying to find ways to chip away at the social safety net and steal that money for themselves, and since the creation of these welfare states that has been the dominant struggle in the nordic countries. of course that struggle is obfuscated by those very same capitalists and it gets turned into “immigrants are the reason your pension is less, not me who stole it from you”
americans don’t understand this. they don’t understand that the capitalists in denmark and sweden spend every second of their days trying to find ways to chip away at the social safety net and steal that money for themselves, and since the creation of these welfare states that has been the dominant struggle in the nordic countries. of course that struggle is obfuscated by those very same capitalists and it gets turned into “immigrants are the reason your pension is less, not me who stole it from you”
a struggle that only existed because of proximity to the USSR, and a struggle that after 30 years of 1000 cuts is nearing its predictable end