'We got lazy and complacent': abolishing the wealth tax changed Sweden

> It was arguably the ideological opposite of the American dream – its aims not exceptionalism but reasonable living standards

What on earth does this person think American Exceptionalism and the American Dream is about? This is the kind of line I'd expect from bad faith rhetoric drummed up by a state actor playing a marketing game, not an Anthropologist writing a serious article. The level of cultural and historical ignorance on display is astounding.