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Basic Economics from Thomas Sowell.

It show me there is another world if you go outside socialism and that socialism has a lot of bad consequence that are never talked about

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Must depend where you live. In the US there is almost no one who believes in socialism outside of California and DC.

What bad consequences of socialism are never talked about?

I'm assuming the grandparent commentor is confusing communism with democratic socialist states? The Scandinavian states look pretty nice overall.

And you are confusing welfare states with socialism.

I'm not, thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism

No Nordic country describes itself as socialist. The Nordic welfare model is made possible by free markets and private enterprise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model

This conflation of a welfare state with democratic socialism is Bernie Bro level nonsense: https://www.thelocal.dk/20151101/danish-pm-in-us-denmark-is-...

Despite the PM not wishing to be seen adopting a US-negatively stereotyped moniker, the economy is democratic socialism. See the wiki article for more sources. Also, your wiki article[0] describes the Nordic model transition to socialism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model#Sweden

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