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elizabeth-cooper t1_itwh6se wrote

Reply to comment by dq9 in More Than 104,000 New York City Students Were Homeless Last Year by Lilyo

>“I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy,” Danish PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen said.

>“The Nordic model is an expanded welfare state which provides a high level of security for its citizens, but it is also a successful market economy with much freedom to pursue your dreams and live your life as you wish,” he added.

https://www.thelocal.dk/20151101/danish-pm-in-us-denmark-is-not-socialist/

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mission17 t1_itwl7bk wrote

The Nordic model is capitalist. But it’s clearly magnitudes more in line with the ideals of socialism than the style of capitalism we embrace domestically.

But if American conservatives want to claim the Nordic model as a capitalist ideal now, I’m all for that.

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