>No, liberal capitalist societies will not reduce work hours, increase safety nets, do UBI, or competently handle massive unemployment.
You may want to look at the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, and Canada.
You may want to look at the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, and Canada.
If we're gonna take a look at places, where I'm really interested in watching is the PRC, Cuba, and Vietnam. Capitalism managed to beat the Soviet Union, will it to any other remainders from the era, or will the conversion to state capitalism create a strange equilibrium? In any case it's not like the PRC is doing much better in terms of worker's rights, you still have to justify your existence through labor there more than you do in the aforementioned Nordic countries.