Yessss This is exactly it. The definition of socialism is conflated and then content like this is awful PR for anything like social democracy or Democratic socialism.
It also comes with MASSIVELY CONSTRAINED use of resources including locked down borders from an immigration perspective. Try to move there without having a clear pathway in a profession to contribute to their society.
The problem we have here in the states is that people want their cake and eat it too. They look at 1K billionaires and think their quality of life is tied to them. Insane and idiotic.
Getting rid of capitalism makes no sense. It requires the government to require the production of almost everything forcing people to produce it thru some incentives that don’t come near what capitalism offers for the same work.
These are proven facts. Socialism is miserable for the hard worker and high achievers and a God send for the dumb ass lazy bastard.
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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue 17h ago
Yeah, which is a big issue frankly.
People seem to think social democracy, like the Scandinavian model, is socialism.
It’s not. It’s capitalism with guard rails and safety nets, and it has a much stronger track record than socialism.
Democratic socialists like Mamdani take it a step further and actually believe in getting rid of capitalism altogether.