北欧向左，美国向右？

• 发表：2024-09-27
• 分类：人文社科
• 围观：43

• 梵 φαν

  2024-06-16
  "爱的北欧理念"是适用于斯堪的纳维这些小国寡名的国家（相比之下西班牙4700万人口都太多了），人少才能保证把每一个人都培养成个人主义的独立个体并支持他们作为个体的自由，这并非可以美国或者其他人口超过一千万的国家可以复制的经验。全世界的高福利国家就那几个，没投胎到那里只能自认倒霉，同时感慨原来人类社会是可以达到这样一个文明程度的。。。
• 赤羽

  2024-10-04
  书名中的“左” 和 “右” 代表着两种截然不同的发展模式和理念。“左” 指向的是北欧模式，强调政府的积极干预和社会公平，注重福利保障、公共服务以及平等价值观；而 “右” 则代表着美国模式，更突出自由市场、个人主义以及竞争机制。这两种模式在政治、经济、社会等多个方面存在明显差异，也反映了不同的发展路径和价值取向。但事实上，左右并不重要，重要的是哪种方法能更好地解决现实问题。在两种模式间找到平衡是关键，可以在政府干预和市场竞争之间找到一个合适的度，既要发挥政府在保障基本权益和提供公共服务方面的作用，又要充分激发市场的活力和创新能力。毕竟生活不是一个符号，而是踏踏实实的每一天，读这本书与其说是在看北欧和美国的左和右，不如说是在想象生活的一种可能性。
• 基瑞尔

  2024-04-12
  想起了去年读的那本《丹麦一年》，只是叙述者互换“方向”并且时限有长短之差差；但大家都是对截然不同的生活方式、方方面面的制度设计做出了最切身的观察与经历分享。一些很基本的说道包括“美国产假稀缺-北欧重视”“多文化-致郁的单一”等等，被作为标签在这里一一摈除，而作者在写作中也努力拒绝只看其中一面。因此这并非“润人文学”，也非必须一决高下的结论合集。她写自己的经历见闻，基于资料做出更多讨论抛出思考；最终的结论却落在了个人，以及关于生活本身的一点启示。无论向左还是向右，无论置身哪里；需要的是对追求自己想要生活的坚决，也是不怕做出改变的勇气。它的纪实在这刻留下的回响并非「沉思」，而是系列里少见的「祝福」。【2024 #39】

• Lucia

  2018-03-04
  When the reporters interviewed low-income residents of Chicago County in Minnesota, many interviewees said they were angry. Why? Because the government was wasting money and giving it to people who didn’t deserve it. Even though these were many of the same people who were actually getting the money through programs such as Medicare, Social Security, and free school lunches for their children.What is the real problem for the residents of Chicago? Americans have the idea that government benefits are only for the poor and the lazy.In the self-portrait that America paints, society is perceived as fair and just, and a failure to make it on your own is shameful, but in reality the cards are stacked against the poor and the middle class. The result is a system everyone hates.A lot of money is...
• Lucia

  2018-02-26
  When I mentioned my new lack of health coverage to American acquaintances, several explained that they themselves had lived without health insurance for years—some because they couldn’t afford it, but others just because they didn’t think it was necessary. What tends to happen in practice is that Americans who lack insurance forgo some of the most important medical visits a person can make, like screenings for diseases such as breast cancer or prostate cancer. When sick they also tend to put off going to the doctor unless they experience unbearable pain, at which point illness may have progressed so far that they’re already in serious trouble and require far more invasive and expensive treatment. Yet many Americans, including politicians who should know better, continue to repeat the rea...
• Lucia

  2018-02-26
  Tellingly, when Amenda Ripley interviewed Kim, an American teenager studying for a year in Finland, Kim reported that what she loved most about there experience in Finland was the independence and autonomy she was given. Kim explained how Finnish teenagers were expected to manage their own schedules and workload without parental or teacher oversight, which she felt was entirely different from the expectations back at her school in Oklahoma. She was amazed to see eight-year-olds walking home from school alone—perfectly normal in Finland—and ten-year-olds hanging out without supervision, even in the big city of Helsinki. Kim concluded that in Finland teenagers are treated like adults.

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