Comment by maronato
What does social democracy have to do with hating privacy?
The UK, US, Australia, and other capitalist flagships are all trying to do the same. Not to mention the Patriot Act.
What does social democracy have to do with hating privacy?
The UK, US, Australia, and other capitalist flagships are all trying to do the same. Not to mention the Patriot Act.
I guess the human temptation to want to know what people are saying behind your back goes beyond political/economic systems.
"Crony capitalist", it's not actual capitalism when the government has its fingers and regulatioms in everyone's finances.
Social democracy is also capitalism.
I’d rather word that differently. High-trust societies with little expectation of privacy and valuing community tend to do well with social democracy. Otherwise people end up abusing the system and it’s hard to catch them if privacy trumps community needs.
Here in ex-USSR country people are very pro privacy and individualist. At the same time we try to copy a lot of Nordic stuff from our neighbors. It’s a shitshow how those cultures mesh. A lot of welfare abuse, hiding beyond muh privacy to avoid scrutinity.
Not sure about the others but UK is a bona fide social democratic country.