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Absolutely agree.
I'm of the belief that in a first world country it should be possible to live a good life by working a normal job, to not have to worry about medical bills, having food on your table and a roof above your head. While also being able, by working hard, to live a great life and by working exceptionally hard, especially in entrepreneurship, to be wealthy.
Only having one of those, for example everyone living a good life but nobody can get wealthy, or a weak working class but a few get extraordinarily wealthy, is not a great system to live in.
You need a healthy middle class with the opportunity for everyone to work their way to wealth, and to extraordinary wealth.
To me, it's mainly how healthy the middle class of a country is, that shows how great that country is.
I've been to 15 countries this year so far, including a couple of months in the US and a couple of weeks in Nordic countries.
And as unpopular as this may sound, I've found the Nordic countries to be way closer to the "American dream" than any part of the US.
There are very few homeless and beggars, most people are prosperous, fit, and educated, the infrastructure is world-class, it's safe, there are multiple little conveniences that everyone respects (like free and clean public toilets, free drinking water in city centers, mind-blowing well-kept infrastructure in national parks), and there are no striking differences between poor and rich areas. There's also very high social trust where people assume that strangers can be trusted and that everyone will care for the shared space.
If the definition of the American dream is that anyone can enjoy a safe, thriving life and has access to upward mobility, then for sure the Nordic countries are way closer to this ideal.
Perhaps there's less of a "rags to riches" upward trajectory but at least there's very little of the "rags" element in society. And that makes all the difference regardless of whether you're rich or poor. It's just way nicer to hang out around on average well-off people than around extremely rich and healthy people in one neighborhood and extremely poor and dying people one block away.
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