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> When people are given good social security, food, healthcare, education and everything else, do they start to find life boring?

Given??

We work 40h a week and pay taxes.

Social security is not to live on forever, its temporary until you find a job. If you are too sick, then yes you CAN get it forever.

Food? You think we are given food? We have supermarkets. Yes it is good quality as we have GOVERNMENTAL OVERSIGHT, unlike the USA where corporations are free to put raw pesticides in your Mcdonalds borgir.

Healthcare? - Yes paid for by taxes. Not given to us.

Education - Yes paid for by taxes. So that we can work, and pay taxes to fund it.

We BUILT this society. You had your chance and choose to build a hellhole made of roads, cars and 70h workweeks.

"oooh but we do so much inovation!!!" Sweden does too SAAB, Ericsson, Spotify, Minecraft. A nation of 10mil and we built our own jets and subs. Suck it.

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> hellhole made of roads, cars and 70h workweeks

We're (so far) free of the 70h workweeks, at least, but if you're trying to portray Sweden as somehow a car-free haven of environmentally-friendly cycling and walking along the lines of Denmark or The Netherlands, then you're really taking the blind nationalism too far...

> Sweden does too SAAB, Ericsson, Spotify, Minecraft. A nation of 10mil and we built our own jets and subs. Suck it.

...and here was me thinking this was a mild discussion about 'slow TV'...

If you don't like America don't go there. Nobody's forcing you to move to that — to quote your own words — "hellhole", are they?

In your culture do people typically crap on others and spread hate like you're doing here? Or is it just you?

I mean, seriously, what are you, 12?

I'm tired of people online like you calling us lazy for building a humane society.

Nice strawman argument, and ageism.

Did I call you lazy?

If you felt that I said your lot is lazy, that was a misunderstanding. A miscommunication.

For the record, I'll state it explicitly: I do not think people of Sweden (and the Scandinavians in general) are lazy.

There. I said it.

I have been as explicit as I possibly could, even though there's no reason for me to explain myself to a random rude person on the internet.

In my native language there's a saying that roughly translates to: don't climb up a ladder to get in the way of a bullet going across the sky.

I've committed this mistake.

Let's end this discussion.

On a technicality, if you start calling people 12, bored and possibly even lazy you shouldn't be asking to 'end the discussion' as if you suddenly have been granted the moral high ground.

GPs comment has plenty wrong with it but yours (multiple) does too.

> 70h workweeks.

Which country? "The average American works 34.4 hours per week, as of May 2019. For people between 25-54, the national average work week comes in at 40.5 hours."

Agreed but chill dude, no one needs to suck anything.

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