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2:56 I dont think anyone loves paying taxes, nobody likes loosing money. But we dont complain about the taxes because we understand why its necessary. We know that the money goes to important things like education and healthcare and so on and therefore we dont complain too much about it. We know it's a necessary evil.
Sweden turns a "necessary evil" into a social benefit. Taxes are not bad if they get to be applied to support and benefit the people. Taxes are only evil when they are deviated to further enrich the already very wealthy. Like the proverbial ding-dong, it's not it that matters but what it's done with it.
It doesn't matter how much taxes you pay.
What matters is how much you're left with.
I'm working 32h/week in a job that requires 0 education or experience and my total living expenses AFTER taxes is about 35% or my salery.
Thats with our high taxes.
A full time worker at McDonalds in American can't rent a 2 room apartment anywhere in the country.
I live in a 3 room apartment in Helsingborg, an above average priced city.
If I wrote you a check and you could choose between a million dollars with a 70% tax or one of 100k completely tax free...
Which one would you take?
But if we do not pay tax we had "loose" alot more money. Because if we would pay for exemple a broken leg it could Cost 80 000. If we do not pay tax we wold maybe not aford to get sick or educate ourself.
Taxes are not necessary evils if they are applied to social policies, when taxes are applied to social policies and help the people taxes are thus an absolute good.
@@F1rstWorldNomaD the first because i would still have more pocket money and all the (either free or very cheap) social benefits that come with taxes.
I also have to comment the question about free schooling and innovations. It`s only half the truth. The other thing that makes Swedes innovate is our social safetynet. If we fail the gouverment will help us from economic ruin. The financial support is tax founded as the said in the clip.
Hej
I live where the first H&M store was opened :D
H&M stands for Hennes & Mauritz and many still say the whole old name instead of the "newish" name. Hennes was the name of the first store. It only sold female fashion. Hennes also means "hers" in Swedish.
The world biggest shopping center is also in Sweden.
GeKås.
I knew it was the largest in Europe but a few years back I stumbled across an article and appearently, the larges Walmart store is in second place but its only about a third of the size as GeKås...
Whats even more insane is that GeKås is located in Ullared, a community of about 3000 people.
Technically it belongs to Falkenberg but that's still only a city of about 50.000 people.
7:22 i think that widespread poverty and lack of opportunities was one of the main reasons why many swedes emigrated to america in the middle-late 1800ds. The other big reason was the famine of 1867-69. These swedes mostly settled in the midwest, especially Minnesota
Because of that Sweden and the nordic countries implemented successful social democracy measures since the begining of the 20th century that turned them from some of the poorest countries in Europe into some of the wealthiest. A lesson the USA refuses to learn, ironic since some of the tenets of the nordic model of social democracy is based on Rosevelt policies he instituted during the great depression.
17:49 Yeeeaaah.. about that "Swedish Meatballs are Actually Turkish", thats false information. So this is what happened:
It all started with a tweet from swedens official twitter account (Sweden.se) from 28th of April 2018. The message said "Swedish meatballs are actually based on a recipe King Charles XII brought home from Turkey in the early 18th century. Let's stick to the facts!". In May the same year the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet interviewed a food-historian and ethnologist named Richard Tellström who said "No, this is a fabrication. If they (the person running Swedens twitter account) has actual historical sources tying Charles XII to meatballs then this is would be a historic sensation." He also points out that the first written account of meatballs (köttbullar) in Swedish cooking comes from Cajsa Wargs cookbook from 1755 (title in english: Guide to Housekeeping for Young Women), several decades after the death of Charles XII. When questioned about the false information they spread through that twitter message, the director of social media at Sweden.se named Oliver Grassman said that they just kinda assumed that it was true and didnt bother checking their sources more thoroughly before tweeting it.
It didn't start there - it's been "commonly known" for many decades, if not more. Also, Cajsa Warg didn't invent most of the recipes she wrote down, like most chefs through history she wrote down recipes she knew, some of which were invented or brought to the region long before she was a chef. So it's possible Karl XII (or more likely his troops) brought the recipe back, but there's no evidence either way. The story that he brought them is much older than any tweets, in fact it predates the entire computer age. True or not.
And if we look at turkish food history, Turky is the end of old silkroad so alot of "turkish food" probably comes from far east 2000 years ago.
Det var kåldolmar som kom från Turkiet.
@@jensbertil8142 turks have only lived in asia minor (modern day Turkey) for around 800 years, prior to this they where steppe nomads
Ingvar Kamprad (Founder of IKEA) was the richest man in Sweden, but he died a few years ago. IKEA is now owned by a foundation and I belive his children got a small percentage each...
15:03 That ikea building is from the first IKEA-store in the world, (in Älmhult, southern Sweden). It's now a museum
Stockholm is a green city if you live in the city center. I live in a suburbs very close to the city center and here they take all the green areas and build on it. We now have NO grass area to play on... they built on every little speck of grass or shoped down the few trees here. But in the city center there is big parks 😞
Well, Ingvar Kamprad - the IKEA guy - *was* the richest Swede (sort of) but he died. He was once rated richer than Bill Gates - by a technicality for sure, but still impressive.
Actually, the general idea is that you teach your kids consequences without actual punishment. You set up rules and if they goof it, they learn from their own mistakes. That isn't always the case, a lot of families still punish and reward but it's pretty common now to just not do that, and to speak to and treat yours kids with the kind of respect you expect from them.
I suggest you watch the music video "swedish fika" a fun meme that actually explains the fika quite a lot :)
Parental leave for both partners has been going on since 1970, it started then and has changed a lot. In Sweden you cannot put a child in child care until 1 year old, most kids dont start until they 1½.
Hey from mid Sweden!
Love your videos and humble reactions, keep it up and keep them coming buddy! 😃❤
If you need any help with what ie. the Swedish candy is, or suppose to be, just give me a shout! 🙂
Thank you for all the reactions on Sweden!
You should react to "Sweden in Eurovision Song Contest (1958-2021)" by Schlager Lucas here on youtube, where you can see the history of our music from the world's biggest music competition! Greetings from Sweden! :)
12:23 That laught was hillarious. Having liquor restricted to SystemBolaget does have its problems. Mostly that u cant just go out and buy liquor anytime u want and the opening hours can be far from ideal especially on the weekends. So if u wanna have a party u most of the time plan it a few days ahead so u have time to get your alcohol of choice. However on the up side i think that this system is a big deterent and save many ppl from becoming full on alcoholics. They definatly exists but not being able to buy alcohol around the clock is a good thing. Not to mention that it most likly have a big positive impact on drinking and driving aswell. Even more so inforced by the fact that Sweden have a 0% policy on drinking and driving. Even if u blow below the lvl of a fine but higher then 0 your not driving out of there. Get some1 to come and get the car or if your lucky maybe an officer could park it for u if there is a parking spot nearby.
Technically health care isent free here in Sweden but u may just aswell say it is becouse of how heavily reduced the cost is and what u would be paying if the state dident use part of that high tax to compensate. I dont know the exact ratio but just as a vague comparison, something that u may have to pay several $1000 for in the us u may get away with only having to pay a few $100 in Sweden. If u need to stay in a hospital the stay alone is only $10-$15/day and get cut in half after 10 days. Its more expensive to park your car in the city for a day then a full 24 hours stay in a hospital bed.
many people know that minecraft was created by a swedish person, but did you know that ea (ea dice) is a swedish gaming company too? or that just cause actually is swedish? many popular games are actually swedish. sweden is in fact one of the biggest country within the gaming community. other swedish games you prob have heard of: battle field, goat simulator, candy crush, generation 0, bio mutant. bio mutant is made by experiment 101 which is another pretty famous gaming company from sweden.
as a swede i can say that santa clause is a finnish sami. living in rouvanniemi in the finnish side of laponia. however santa clause and father christmas
/jol is not the same person. Father jol was originally the norse god 'Odin
Dont worry, you may not be able to have a glass of whine at home before 20 but you can always go out & get drunk on the pub/club as long as you are 18.... Its such a stupid rule!!!!! lol
What she didnt tell you about paterintyleave is that 90 days are for the father alone, he cant give them away and then the rest they can split how they like.
Norway is not way better off.
They're basically on par, maybe a tiny bit ahead.
Just looking at the GDP it would look like they're way ahead, a Norwegian paycheck is quite hefty, but so are living expenses.
A small two room apartment in Oslo cost about *7 times* what my quite roomy three room apartment in Helsingborg costs.
I lived in Oslo for about 2 years and I didn't meet a single person who didn't have two jobs.
In Sweden I only know about 10 people who has more than one job.
The stress in Norway is off the charts in comparison.
If you're end goal is to make fat stacks of cash, Norway is a better place to be, but if you wanna live comfortably, I would never chose Norway over Sweden.
You should react to the song. Swedish fika.
Santa is clearly Finnish. Also we got pretty well off because we let Germany move kinda freely through Sweden during WW2 so they didn't invade us.
I mean, we were literally neutral - the Germans could move on our trains (not freely, German soldiers didn't exactly patrol the streets of our cities) but we also smuggled out Allied pilots, sailors and soldiers and helped the Allies with intercepting and decrypting German transmissions. Underhanded? Yes. But neutral.
The reason they're called "Swedish" meatballs is because they changed the dish.
They're about half the size, comes in gravy and is served with mashed potatoes.
This is not the Turkish way they made it.
Every single culture on planet earth has meat rolled into balls as a dish.
That's not what makes it Swedish, Turkish or any other ish.
so if 220 million adults in usa paid another 20% tax on income, would they trade that for free college and free medical? meaning just a 20 dollar visit fee and rest free, including surgeries and such?
About systembolaget, its still ok to brew wine or beer at home.
Santa Claus lives in Greenland, according to Denmark.
Ofc I have IKEA furniture. I’m Swedish
Hammarby sjostad is where Einar got killed
I can really recommend their video "15 things you didn't know about IKEA". I would like to see you react to that.
I am a Greek that grew up in Stockholm.
I left Sweden and moved Greece.
What you see in this Video the how Stockholm looks. Is 2 month mabey 3 in a year. The rest is rainey and cold and dark and snow combined with rian. The winter are like 8 month of bad weather. And always dark outside. I would already go to work and it is dark outside, and when i go home from work it is dark and most day in sweden the weather is grey so you do not see any sun or light for sometimes a week
People are cold, not social at all, what you do is you work , go home and then go to work again thats it. Every day. People do not do stuff that often.
You get VERRY depressed in Sweden.
That is not true. In september and october we have crispy sunny days with beautiful autumn colors. High fresh air. Ofcourse there are rainy dags as well. November and december is very dark. You say we work and sleep and work again...that must depend on who you are as a person.
@@birgittalagerstrom6264 in september. November yes mabey THE colors are nice but it rains alot and it is Cold. No One wants to do anything when it is raine and Cold. In Sweden you you can not plan anything to do in outside because it could say that it is goding to be du. Tomorrow but it rains And you have to plan because THE Sun does not show Up so much in a year. Here in Greece you DO not have to plan anything it is Always Sun out People are happy and Always full of People at THE coffe shops sitting outside all thrue the year.
Some People like to live in Sweden and thats nice but thats not a life in My apponion
H&M starded in my home town Västerås
wow! i'm from Jokkmokk
Free education is a good profit for the state. The more educated people are, the more income they get and the more tax they pay later in life. So it's a wine wine consept for everyone.
wine = vin (sånt du dricker)
win = vinna/vinst
Americans are to hung up on taxes.
It doesn't matter how much taxes you pay.
What matters us how much you have left to live on.
Technically we have between 50 and 80% taxes here (including all the employments fees etc)
I dunno what the taxes are in America but I know it not even half of what we have.
But here is the kicker.
I work 32h/week in a job that requires 0 education or experience, hell, half of my coworkers doent even speak Swedish or English.
I live in a 3 room apartment in an above average cost city.
My living expenses, Rent, electricity, insurance, internet, transportation and phone plan is about 35% of my income *AFTER* taxes.
With food it's maybe around 50%.
Someone working full-time at McDonald's can't rent a two room apartment anywhere in America, they can't even rent a one room apartment in about 90% of America.
I'm not even working full time and have a 3 room apartment in an overpriced city and I still have *HALF* of my money left when everything is payed for.
You can have a billion dollars in your bank, if a loaf of bread cost you 900 millions, you're still poor.
I don't mind my high taxes, I have more than I need already and everything essential, Medical, Education, Social Saftey Net, all of that is already payed for.
If I wrote you two checks.
One for a million dollars with 70% tax
And one for 100k with no tax at all...
Which one would you take?
50 TO 80%
Sorry.
(Cant edit due to the browser I'm using 😑)
A lot of Americans also don't seem to know that the tax isn't for your entire income.
You pay a certain tax for your income UP TO a certain amount, and then if you earn even 1kr about that you pay the higher tax but only for that 1kr.
In practice it means that you can't really get screwed over by your taxes since they can't just go ''Oh hey you earned more money than the tax threshold, so we're going to take 80% of your entire income!''
I love your videos!!! 🥰
The real santa lives in Finland, end of story. Ive lived in both countries and I have been to the santa village in Rovanniemi. Its real.
9:00, In sweden you get labeled a substance abuser if you get busted with anything other than alcohol. Even first time offenders lose their drivers license and a lot of the time their jobs,
Nope. First of all, our workplaces don't do random drug screenings, and getting caught with anything other than alcohol doesn't label you anything (where would that be done, the secret archives of the Illuminati?). Second, having been convicted of anything other than an actual crime done with a car (reckless driving, endangering lives) won't lose you your driver's license. And finally, losing your job is entirely dependent on one of two things - the company laying people off or you acting so horrendous at work that it affects the work of you and others.
I'm fairly sure you don't know anything about Sweden other than whatever they told you at Prager U.
Adding to this - only the police have the right to legally order a drug screening. Driving under the influence can, if egregious enough (and yes, this is primarily for DUI with alcohol), sometimes lose you your license, but you have to be a repeat offender and be seriously plastered for that to happen.
One of our main issues is actually that alcoholism and drinking too much is too common, not that we're extremely strict about it. Our other drug problems aren't that large a problem in comparison.
Swedish Fika; czcams.com/video/oRIeytEXGhQ/video.html
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Actually sweden have 10.6 million people living there so not less the 10 million
Video was released in 2018, so technically it was correct then I believe
Finland was swedich before
Flawed title, we both knew stuff already. It should say "you might not know".
It's not pronounced scat, it's skatt, with short A like in Audrey.
Swedish culture is just less rebellious and aggressive so kids doesn't need as much punishment, but also as the video says, using fear and pain to teach good and bad isn't... good. Crasy how it's legal in first world countries.
Where is the video of Swedish rap music? Still waiting!!
NOOO NOOO DON’T TALK ABOUT THE OIL. 😭
Swedish fika. The song
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Metballs is Swedich........
Man you really simp for Sweden xD I am from Stockholm :P Drop by for a fika :]
Update your discord link it does not work
Has been the poorest country in Europe ??? I don´t think so
Well there's ofcourse both good and bad things related to free education. If education is free anyone who wants to educate themselves are able too, however there's also the issue about that some students don't take their education seriously. If you have to pay for something you in general value it more, that is common sense. These things have caused something wierd called "education inflation" where the value of education have gone down significantly, since many people have a higher education but only very few of the graduates end up being very good at their subjects. There's people who are very good at certain tasks/subjects/skills that under normal circumstances would not require a lenghty education in for example engineering, that these days often have to go into further studies just to compete for a job they later end up overqualified for.
Ofcourse i rather tackle the issues of "education inflation" then the opposite situation where smart people are not able to go to universities etc. I kinda educated myself while working, at 25-50% rate and it took me a very long time to get my degrees. But instead I managed to dodge these issues in other ways, such as having connections and proper work experience. What clearly allows innovation more then free education are the safety net, if you start a business here and fail you don't end up destitute like in many other countries. This allows people to think less of the risks and more about the possibilities that comes with starting businesses, do cultural things such as music or just try to invent something.
The problem with taxes in Sweden is that alot of it is wasted. My own town spent 1 million dollars on a work programe to get unemployed people back into work, also to help immigrants find a job. 2 people got at job. So spending 1 million dollars on getting 2 people jobs is a waste of tax money.
I Already Knew All Of Theese Things Because I'm From Sweden And I Live In Sweden
I worked 16 hours, got about $300 extra per month compared to working 8 hours. Sweden's tax system is broken.
A tip for your future fake accounts: "John Smith" is not a Swedish name. Second, you're lying.
We don’t like high taxes, I hate it here.
Why don't move to an other country then?
30 ish % on wages and fuel is up by $10 a gallon.. Its a living hell to be swede.. Immigrants here in Sweden shower in welfare
and us swedes pay for it. If u as a swede need help its almost impossible . I hate our goverment .
Bro sure gas prices are real expensive right now but Sweden is one of the best places to live, leave if you dont like it?
No ot is not hard or impossible to get help from the government if you are swedish. Stop spreading lies.
``skatt`` fuq that shit i already payed 3400usd in tax in two months
...are you claiming you had to pay 66,000 SEK in two months? That means your monthly salary is *way* above 60,000 SEK. More likely about 75K. Boo fucking hoo.
Now, if you're talking about the US, I'd believe you, only it wouldn't be through income tax, it'd be taxes and fees on everything else.