"The Scandinavian countries .... as perhaps the closest human societies managed to get to utopia in the 20th century." But didn't the Scandinavian countries beginning in the 1990s start voting for politicians who favored free markets?" Hasn't Scandinavia seen a regression to the mean in the sense that they now have about the same amount …
"The Scandinavian countries .... as perhaps the closest human societies managed to get to utopia in the 20th century." But didn't the Scandinavian countries beginning in the 1990s start voting for politicians who favored free markets?" Hasn't Scandinavia seen a regression to the mean in the sense that they now have about the same amount of inequality as other west European countries? Uncontrolled migration probably resulted in increased inequality too. And wasn't Norway's close approach to utopia largely due to North Sea oil wealth? Also note that the Arab guest workers who manned the oil rigs were omitted from Norway's progressive social programs.
"The Scandinavian countries .... as perhaps the closest human societies managed to get to utopia in the 20th century." But didn't the Scandinavian countries beginning in the 1990s start voting for politicians who favored free markets?" Hasn't Scandinavia seen a regression to the mean in the sense that they now have about the same amount of inequality as other west European countries? Uncontrolled migration probably resulted in increased inequality too. And wasn't Norway's close approach to utopia largely due to North Sea oil wealth? Also note that the Arab guest workers who manned the oil rigs were omitted from Norway's progressive social programs.
Finland has no oil. Neither does Sweden.