> Vs. America, which is all just "hooray individualism: you're all on your own."
Switzerland is about half the size of Maine. Not everything is about your perceived failings of American culture.
Switzerland is about half the size of Maine. Not everything is about your perceived failings of American culture.
As the nations grow in size you generally end up splitting into states that have more localized incentives and/or you have a more brutal central apparatus like in the large states of China/Russia.
But this is. This is about attitudes, not size.
And even culturally, population size determines attitudes. How do Europeans feel about Brussels? Can you imagine the commission building an EU-wide bunker system?
Not really, it's per capita, not per area. There's nothing physical about America that would prevent it from requiring developers to add a shelter to every housing unit or in every housing development, like Switzerland does. Likewise, there's nothing physical preventing America from building and maintaining public shelters in denser urban areas.
The article also mentioned Sweden has public bunker capacity in urban but not rural areas. There's not physical reason American could not do something like that.
You could imagine this being accomplished at a city-wide level out of city budgets and local taxes, but again this just reinforces the point that size is a problem.
Sweden's population is more concentrated in cities than the US's population. In the US, rural voters have a dramatically outsized influence over the senate.