I’m looking for perspectives on which countries most effectively combine high quality of life with low social and economic inequality.
None of them.
Pretty much all high quality of life countries have large economic inequality, and life is great if you’re in the top quarter of the economic strata, and everyone else is often struggling.
Also if you want to emigrate, you better have a high paying specialist career.
Looking at this data Norway seems to have low levels of economic inequality, low rates of poverty, and a high median disposable income (behind Luxembourg but around that of France and Austria).
Its far from perfect, but I imagine social inequality for stuff like gender and race is pretty low, officially speaking at least. I get the feeling that Scandinavians can be a big negative about foreigners, but I have zero firsthand knowledge on that.
The only reason their society is that way is because it’s not diverse.
all the scandavaian counrties are having issues because of increasing immigration is destroying their social harmony. the natives don’t want to give the new immigrants the benefits they get, and the immigrants dont’ want to assimilate to the scandavian values/lifestyle.
Do you have sources you can cite?
In English if possible. Though I’ll understand if not, and make due with what you have.I’m a Norwegian living in Denmark, and can confirm that the views stated are true, unfortunately. The racism is increasing really fast, buy do is the inequality for the general population, and there are many (not all, but many) refugees who refuse to learn Norwegian. There are even refugees who’s been in Norway for 30 years who don’t speak a lick of Norwegian, while their kids sounds like Norwegian native speakers.
As a non-EU person in Denmark, I can confirn, that the “everyone is equal” club is not available for everyone
Plus immigrant friendly, I guess.
Plus immigrant friendly, I guess.
I mean, this is exactly why I kinda side-eye Lemmings when they are like “why did you choose to move to 'such a shithole’¹ like the US, isn’t China much better”, (¹their words btw, not mine) like… (first of all, I didn’t even choose, my parent did) lol I’d go to Norway if they took us, but no they don’t lmao, the US was our only option for emigration… it was either this or stay in mainland China with all that pollution stuff and Hukou bullshit and crowded, and hard to find income.
… and there goes most of them.
I don’t know from experience, and I haven’t researched it, but that kinda sounds like Canada.
Maybe Germany.
Canada has a lot of immgration that has brought about increasing inequality.
Canada was going to have the inequality anyway. The immigration is a scapegoat for the declining quality of life but many policy decisions outside of immigration were already impacting quality of life. The housing bubble and oligarchy/monopoly of major sectors (grocceries, telecommunications etc) are the main issues driving inequality in Canada.
Canada could support its ambitious immigration goals if it were willing to invest in the country to support them, such as extensive public transit overhauls and nationalizing essential services like rail, communications, and energy.
I’d recommend researching quality of life metrics and cross referencing with nations’ gini coefficients.
There are graphs in the book The Spirit Level which show exactly this. The two things correlate. From memory Iceland, Japan and maybe Poland do well, or at least they were when the book was published.
Xandar
Is that real or is it like Narnia?
Most European countries.
You and tubulartittyfrog have basically the exact opposite comments
Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia fits this bill if we assume for the moment that slaves don’t count toward the equality aspect, beings slaves and all.
