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[blackhawks]

The next time a right winger screams "SOCIALISM!"
Show them this.....


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217515456

[fuagf]

From hair to heir. A modern fairy-tale How Australia’s Mary Donaldson went from commoner to Danish Queen

An unconventional journey from Australia’s middle class to European royalty began in an unremarkable bar in Sydney in 2000

"[...]What the Right Gets Wrong About Socialism
By Erlend Kvitrud
[...]
The share of total U.S. income owned by the richest 1 percent of the population has been surging since the 1980s. It has now reached 20 percent. Scandinavia’s 1 percent bags less than half this share, ranging from 6 percent in Denmark to about 9 percent in Sweden. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ranks each Scandinavian nation among the top 10 with regards to both economic equality .. https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm .. and absence of poverty .. https://data.oecd.org/inequality/poverty-rate.htm . The United States is on the opposite end of both spectrums.

Take Norway for example. According to the World Bank .. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?end=2017&locations=NO-US&start=2017&view=bar&year_high_desc=true , Norway and the United States have nearly identical GDP per capita. Yet Norway, unlike the United States, enjoys universal health care, child care, and elder care, as well as tuition-free universities, around 12 months of paid parental leave, and a robust social safety net."

Virginia Harrison in Sydney
Mon 1 Jan 2024 17.10 AEDT
Last modified on Mon 1 Jan 2024 17.12 AEDT

It started with a discussion about chest hair. Twenty-three years later, in what has been called a “real-life fairytale”, Mary Donaldson, a former real estate manager from Tasmania, is poised to become the queen of Denmark.--

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/01/how-australias-mary-donaldson-went-from-commoner-to-danish-queen