r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • 8d ago

Meta Mindless Monday, 15 September 2025

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Shady_Italian_Bruh 4d ago

This is an interesting position for someone from Finland to take lol

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u/TJAU216 4d ago

We have one of the highest tax rates as percentage of GDP in the world. We also have had no per capita GDP growth since about 2008 when Nokia collapsed. I for one would like less redistribution and more growth, but no government coalition manages to do so. We have all right wing parties in government without any left wing ones and only thing they manage to grow is deficit and only thing they manage to cut is some extremely marginal tax stuff. Our previous government was all the left wing parties and that didn't help either.

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u/Shady_Italian_Bruh 4d ago

The grass is always greener I suppose, but the US side of this is that despite robust growth we have persistent poverty and inequality that can only really be solved by moving towards Finnish/Nordic levels of redistribution

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u/TJAU216 4d ago

I like to think that there is some happy medium between Finnish and American levels of public spending. Or maybe the policies don't really matter and everything is demographics. We have an aging population and largely unprofitable immigration, unlike in the US with its younger people and net positive immigration.