Timeline for Why are countries consistently ranked across "nice" lists?
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| Apr 15, 2021 at 13:12 | comment | added | Rye bread | @Davor No, that's a myth that has been disproven many times. See here: nyheder.tv2.dk/… | |
| Apr 15, 2021 at 12:56 | comment | added | Davor | @Rugbrød - social mobility is not about status, especially not inheritable kind, it's about economic class. How easy is it is to climb from poverty to being a middle class or upper class. And in countries where education is free, healthcare is free etc. this is much easier. | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 16:48 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Simo Kivistö: It depends on who's making the list. If you happen to be an avid cross-country skier, Finland's weather would put it close to the top :-) | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 8:36 | comment | added | Rye bread | Social mobility in Denmark is not much higher than in the US. That index seems to measure other things, such as tax payer funded education. But there is no clear link between the two, since social status is mostly heritable. | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 8:11 | comment | added | Simo Kivistö | A Finn here. Worth noting that although the income tax rate is high, the universities are free (government actual gives financial aids for studying). Also public health care is good so you don't have to spend much extra there either. I guess we would go down in the lists if they took account of the weather in November though... | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 7:37 | comment | added | gerrit | Aren't high GDP and low tax rates rather desires by neoliberals as opposed to neoconservatives? In particular a low tax rate is favoured by liberalism, which puts individual responsibility (each responsible for their own economic welfare) over collective responsibility (solidarity between rich and poor and between healthy and sick). I admit that I find the term neoconservative confusing, as conservatives are by nature skeptical of anything neo — radical tax cuts certainly can't be reasonably called conservative. | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 13:40 | comment | added | Make42 | I think I am equally conservative and progressive - depending on the topic. But I do understand your comment regarding choosing a "nice list". The pre-capita GDP is not too bad in Denmark or Finland either :-). But both have some serious income tax rate. But I would say that GDP might be measurement of wealth, while tax rate is not an outcome but a (part of a) method to receive an outcome. Military prowess is only interesting for me a measurement for safety/security... and I am not sure if that is a good measurement for safety/security. | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 13:20 | comment | added | Jontia | I'd be interested in further reading to support the idea that Social Mobility increases income equality. It makes sense that social mobility would be easier if the various layers were more equal, making each layer change easier. But that would seem to be the opposite direction. Income equality increasing social mobility. | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 12:24 | history | answered | Philipp♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |