[Info-vax] The changing world

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-06, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 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.
>

Interesting. I didn't realise it was as fine-grained as that.

>> Which part of Switzerland do you live in ?
>
> The kanton of Zürich.
>

Thanks. I was just curious.

>>> 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.
>

Interesting. Based on my knowledge so far of the Nordic countries,
Finland would not have been the first Nordic country I would have chosen.

[Norway is by far the Nordic country I hear the most about.]

Simon.

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