Originally Posted by
igualitarist
I may be biased because i live in a corruption infested shithole where we work our asses off and receive terrible public services, where the public education is in the bottom of the education rankings, people die in the queue for public healthcare, the roads are full of holes and with terrible signaling and the police, along with the Judiciary are extremely inefficient (die more people here victims of violence than in all the wars happening in the world right now combined, and only 3% of the cases are solved). On the other hand, private services are great.
To make things worse, every day explodes in the national media a corruption scandal involving politicians and bureaucrats getting filthy rich using public money.
And still, people here think the cause of our poverty is the evil capitalism and only the government can solve our problems, so they keep voting in politicians that promise to increase the government and thus, tax us even more.
All of the countries that are rich nowadays, achieved this status when they still had low taxes and small governments, and they are losing this. But hey, you/we get stuff for free so does not matter my country follows a recipe for the disaster.