Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "Nomad Capitalist" channel.

@fredandretrondsen9015 May I inquire where that is?
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@fredandretrondsen9015 As in Norwegian taxes are low and effectively flat, but Norwegian cost of living tends to cancel them when it comes to the wages of the average employee?
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@fredandretrondsen9015 RIP HKSAR - old connection with a long story between here and there, never made it that far out myself. Singapore's arguably the natural centre of the world in terms of trade flows. What works there might not work somewhere that isn't built on a civilizational crossroads like the Straits of Malacca.
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I need to travel more. I don't want to say where I would go, in case I stay there. In places with generous social safety nets, the locals don't want too many foreigners. In places with generous tax and compliance procedures, the foreigners don't want too many foreigners.
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@williamhagertygabbiani604 shipping was the historical hard industry in Greece, wasn't it?
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the Up North bits of Canada I think get close to Scandinavian rates of alcoholism and suicide, and we definitely have at least a softer core version of that crabs in the bucket thing they do where they cut one another down all the time, so one could well say it all ready has "what the Northern European countries have. A healthy, happy well respected population." Happiness in the Scandinavian context having to do with the taboo against admitting to being unhappy, even on anonymous surveys. That said, I think you guys will achieve your goal, because your sadism and your intense hatred for normal human beings gives you a strong psychological motivation to make things as bad as you can make them.
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In Canada, I have never met a self-described admirer of Scandinavia who was so much as a mediocre human being.
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@stevedrake360 I mean if you want to be a lolbertarian purist about it, since the state assumes two things, the monopoly on violence, and the monopoly on contract enforcement, and contract enforcement, security, and investigations are all services, all states are somewhat socialist, by that definition. I think there is also a THICK line between what random countries on the other side of the world actually do, and the way their fanboys pattern on this side of the world.
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@fredandretrondsen9015 ah so the tax rate is not entirely flat for employees
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@fredandretrondsen9015 My sense is a lot of stuff that works in one country will not work in another country. I know Singapore gets good results with housing projects. Apparently all but the ultrarich live in them. Housing projects in America are a meme for gang activity, and where I live for corruption-with-extra-steps. They build the project on a relationship, then it decays within a decade or two, often in an area surrounded by century homes, which allows maintenance to become a patronage position, and ensures another developer has to be hired to build a replacement. The reason Singapore does well I expect is that they flog the lazy and the incompetent and hang the corrupt, whereas we don't even shoot child molesters.
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