Some food for thought: I got my second paycheck in 🇩🇰 last Friday. I estimated a 10 percentage point increase over our tax rate at home (despite earning more there). It sounds like a lot maybe, but consider what Danish citizens enjoy with that:
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Universal access to high quality healthcare regardless of your employment situation
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Unemployment insurance
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Basically free childcare within 2 miles of your home (including aftercare and summers)
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Functioning public transit (more useful in cities but still workable across the country)
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Overall dependable public infrastructure
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A society based on trust, such that my 10 yo daughter can confidently take the metro from one side of Copenhagen to the other for afternoon hockey practices - all by herself
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It’s hard to put a monetary value on that but to me it feels worth way more than the price I am paying
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And one key detail that’s between the lines: you can change jobs without messing all this stuff up. That means the freedom to take chances with freelance or entrepreneurial endeavors, or to try out a new job at a new firm “just because”.
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Americans talk a lot about “freedom” but to me, this is more freedom than I have in the US
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