This week, Wyatt on The Daily show hilariouspair of reports on the 'evils' of Swedish Socialism. The Swedes appear to get the joke; as the videos have more-or-less gone viral there (the Swedish segments currently having over 70k more online views than the rest of the same episodes). As an American who's spent over a decade living there, I thought I'd share some insights. While there is much to be said about the Swedish system and welfare model, I'd like to focus on some observations of what lessons the Swedes seem to have gathered, and a number of interesting ways how Swedish policy deviates from classical Social Democratic/left-wing ideology...
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