What are your opinions about this "communist" video?

[The Rabbi]

Sweden?
Riots put Sweden's open-door immigration policy in spotlight | Reuters

Even in Sweden, the social security system is failing people | Simon Alfredsson | Comment is free | theguardian.com

Top 10 Swedish companies by sales and year founded:

Volvo: 1927
Ericsson: 1876
Nordea Bank: Result of mergers going back to 1884
Skanska: 1887
SCA:1929
Telia-Sonera: 1853
Electrolux: 1901
H&M:1947
SEB:1856
Swedbank:1820

Top 10 companies and only one was founded after WW1. That is hardly a dynamic economy.

 

[Munin]

Sweden?
Riots put Sweden's open-door immigration policy in spotlight | Reuters

Even in Sweden, the social security system is failing people | Simon Alfredsson | Comment is free | theguardian.com

Top 10 Swedish companies by sales and year founded:

Volvo: 1927
Ericsson: 1876
Nordea Bank: Result of mergers going back to 1884
Skanska: 1887
SCA:1929
Telia-Sonera: 1853
Electrolux: 1901
H&M:1947
SEB:1856
Swedbank:1820

Top 10 companies and only one was founded after WW1. That is hardly a dynamic economy.

Lol, you might have forgotten as an American but the USA is a country of immigrants: so it is real hard to use especially that argument against another Nation in a comparison with the US. Even if I do not agree with open border immigration policy like in Sweden, it still doesn't change the income disparity problem of the US of A.

Hmm, yes maybe a good point. But if you look at the biggest companies in the USA, you would probably find a similar thing: big Companies hardly go away. Coca Cola is still there, Microsoft & Apple are still the big computer Giants and have 0 new competitors. But yes, a lot of big new Companies do grow in the US despite the destruction of the education system in the US (like google, facebook, ... )

The number of big companies is still impressive though, for such a small country. It also doesn't diminish the fact that the companies still operate from Sweden (a country with a huge tax rate).

 

[The Rabbi]

Sweden?
Riots put Sweden's open-door immigration policy in spotlight | Reuters

Even in Sweden, the social security system is failing people | Simon Alfredsson | Comment is free | theguardian.com

Top 10 Swedish companies by sales and year founded:

Volvo: 1927
Ericsson: 1876
Nordea Bank: Result of mergers going back to 1884
Skanska: 1887
SCA:1929
Telia-Sonera: 1853
Electrolux: 1901
H&M:1947
SEB:1856
Swedbank:1820

Top 10 companies and only one was founded after WW1. That is hardly a dynamic economy.

Lol, you might have forgotten as an American but the USA is a country of immigrants: so it is real hard to use especially that argument against another Nation in a comparison with the US. Even if I do not agree with open border immigration policy like in Sweden, it still doesn't change the income disparity problem of the US of A.

Hmm, yes maybe a good point. But if you look at the biggest companies in the USA, you would probably find a similar thing: big Companies hardly go away. Coca Cola is still there, Microsoft & Apple are still the big computer Giants and have 0 new competitors. But yes, a lot of big new Companies do grow in the US despite the destruction of the education system in the US (like google, facebook, ... )

The number of big companies is still impressive though, for such a small country. It also doesn't diminish the fact that the companies still operate from Sweden (a country with a huge tax rate).

There is no "income disparity problem." No one has demonstrated the problem, despite about 30 threads on the topic.
Microsoft is about 30 years old. Apple about the same. Of course they have competitors. But the largest U.S. companies (except extractives) are mostly 50 years old or less. That speaks to the dynamism of the US economy vs Sweden, which is more static. More static means fewer people becoming hugely wealthy. Which equals more "equality", or in real terms, everyone is equally poor and miserable.

 

[Munin]

That speaks to the dynamism of the US economy vs Sweden, which is more static. More static means fewer people becoming hugely wealthy. Which equals more "equality", or in real terms, everyone is equally poor and miserable.

I can tell that you know little about the poverty of Swedish people. It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out that the average middle class Sweed is richer than the average middle class American. Especially now after a housing crisis has all but destroyed a big part of the American middle class

And I will not try to prove how rich they are. The point is that you can not compare them to North Korea, even though they have socialist policies. I m not saying that they re all working, I m not even disagreeing that their open door immigration policy is bad. And will not deny that the US economy is one of the most flexible for companies when compared to countries around the world. But again you go away from the one point I m trying to make.

You can try to make Sweden look like North Korea in your head all you want, it won't change the fact that it isn't.

 

[The Rabbi]

That speaks to the dynamism of the US economy vs Sweden, which is more static. More static means fewer people becoming hugely wealthy. Which equals more "equality", or in real terms, everyone is equally poor and miserable.

I can tell that you know little about the poverty of Swedish people. It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out that the average middle class Sweed is richer than the average middle class American. Especially now after a housing crisis has all but destroyed a big part of the American middle class

And I will not try to prove how rich they are. The point is that you can not compare them to North Korea, even though they have socialist policies. I m not saying that they re all working, I m not even disagreeing that their open door immigration policy is bad. And will not deny that the US economy is one of the most flexible for companies when compared to countries around the world. But again you go away from the one point I m trying to make.

You can try to make Sweden look like North Korea in your head all you want, it won't change the fact that it isn't.

The only person who has mentioned North Korea is you. Looks like the Straw Man came for a visit.
I have shown that Sweden is hardly the workers' paradise you want to portray. Beset with high structural unemployment, stagnating industries, low birthrate, aging population and an enormous Muslim problem. In about 150 years there won't be any more Swedes anyway.

 

[Two Thumbs]

The rich getting richer does not make me poorer or have any affect on my life what so ever.

It's all a bunch of spoiled children crying b/c the person next to them has more chips in their cookie