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There are no countries with socialist policies.
Can you name a country that has workplace democracy? No? Then there isn't a socialist country out there.
Would I move to the social democracies of the world? I love norway and whatnot politically (as much as a communist can love the state of any country)... but I love having warm air and nature I can enjoy without a coat much more.
Doesn't any country with cooperatives have workplace democracy?
Norway is cheating because they have many natural resources to sell.
Yes, they have a tiny, insignificant amount.
An entire country has to have workplace democracy for the country to be socialist.
This is kinda like saying "doesn't any country with a slice of bread have food"
What would change if every company would be democratic?
To begin with, there wouldn't be an unspoken agreement between companies to keep wages as low as they can be because more than half of the companies in that market agree that the best they can do is starvation wages.
Y'know how totalitarian regimes are incentivized to be shitholes because of the keys to power problem?
https://invidious.asir.dev/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
at the very least, that goes away. But there's many more other things.
autistic people could actually get hired
What is workplace democracy? Would love to finally hear some socialist philosophy from someone that isn't a goddamn Hexbear user.