woot go finland!(wheremy family origionally was from) oh and canada too!(cuz canada always rocks)
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I have seen the effects of socialism (and communism) firsthand and my wife has lived under it -- forget the basic economics (which are bad enough), it destroys the very soul itself. Unfortunately, seems like the corporate model is almost as bad. Just got done reading the actual "study" by The Economist...or I should say, article...they do not detail the actual results by category, only the summary results. https://www.economist.com/media/pdf/D...EX_2007_v3.pdf Makes me wonder exactly how they know/collected enough information for the categories by country in order to get some to score perfectly. Too many perfect 10's if you ask me. ;) Just the 1st read through was enough to make me doubt the objectivity of the entire article, and not because the USA scored lower than #1. :p Seems like something that I would have expected to see in USAToday, not The Economist...they should know better! Of course, there is also the glaring problem displayed in the complete lack of understanding of the definition of democracy. We don't actually live in a democracy...most people in the world do not. Anyway... *sigh* *shrug* |
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Sounds like you only find that it doesn't fit in because the ideas don't swing your way...that's not a judgment from just this statement, either. *shanghaiwhip* |
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My complaint (if you wanna call it that) is that the story is only telling part of the story. ;) :D I would like to see the details of each country, not just the summary. They keep the old saying going "figures lie...and liars figure" when they don't give all the information. Really just seems much more like a political statement on the UK by The Economist than anything else, IMO. But, hey...think whatcha wanna think! ;) *really big shrug* |
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Hell, Sweden has the "Pirate Party." An official political party with a platform for IP, copyright, patent, etc. reform in addition to privacy protection. This is why you'll find a lot of bootleg movies et. al. coming from Sweden - their government doesn't bother with it. Quote:
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Or I'm just not understanding your question.... Are you asking to see the raw data for all of the 60 questions? In any case, here's the website for their main source of data: https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/ |
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From my POV, at the end of the day they're all just "isms". If you go into a university, they all work "in theory". However, the moment they are implemented in reality, they are subject to corruption. Once an "ism" is in place, the loopholes are exploited and the system is usurped and slowly brought down the tubes. For me, the legitimacy of a system can only be deermined by the quality of life of the people that live under it. Right now I see the USA in a kind of pre-1929 economic instability. I think that you need a (messy) mix of the isms in tension with one another. The goal is to make them work for you and me. You're critique is fair. I think the homogenous part is important. My POV is, what countries are "getting it right", and can we translate their solution to our context? CarloSW2 |
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After looking through the database, I am quickly seeing that the latest survey data for Norway is 1996, Sweden is 1999, USA 1999, Netherlands 1999, Great Britan 1999, East Germany 1999, West Germany 1999, and the newest data point is Iraq in 2004. Not quite sure what to make of the ages of the data points they are analyzing just yet...:confused: Perhaps there is more data to be "had" by downloading the entire dataset versus browsing it via their online access?? |
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