[Info-vax] The changing world

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-07-06 19:23, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-07-06, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> On 2022-07-06 01:29, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>
>>> One could fear that many places the votes would be YES to
>>> more government spending and NO to higher taxes.
>>
>> Right. And that's what's weird with Switzerland. People actually are
>> responsible. They vote no to more government spending, no to longer
>> vacations, and yes to higher taxes. (With that said, taxes are still
>> pretty low in Switzerland.)
>>
> 
> Given all the internal language differences, I've always thought of
> Switzerland as 3 or 4 little countries all rolled into one :-)

It's much more complicated than that. Every canton have its own 
peculiarities, laws and culture.

> Which part of Switzerland do you live in ?

The kanton of Zürich.

>> I don't expect that to happen if this was somewhere else, which is why I
>> doubt direct democracy would work in other places.
>>
> 
> Some Nordic countries, especially Norway, come across as having a
> reasonable population so it might work there as well. However, that's
> just an impression I have formed.

I'm originally from Sweden, so I think I can make some comments about 
the nordics as well. They are rational to a certain point, but I 
wouldn't trust them to make totally rational decisions. Sometimes they 
would, but there are also times when they very broken. Of those 
countries, the one I would trust behaving the most responsible are the 
Finnish.

   Johnny