Brit Reacts to 5 Mistakes Americans Make About Sweden
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- Do Americans really think this about Swedes? Let me know what you think in the comments section below.
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Regarding the whole tax issue, Americans don't seem to realize that they "give away" just as much if not more money on health insurance, child care, student loans and all other kinds of stuff, that we all have sort of included in the taxes, Im pretty sure that if you add the taxes americans pay and all this other stuff that is included in our taxes that they have to pay for themselves, they spend alot more on average
Someone did the calculations with Germany vs USA and you are correct. Health insurance doesn't even cover all the costs and even the part you have to pay in USA after insurance is often much higher then someone in a country without free healthcare would pay.
@@znail4675 I knew it, if only the americans would get that fact through their thick overly patriotic skulls, maybe they'd realize socialism isn't the devil incarnate after all 🤣
@@AHVENANYeah they are so brain washed and in The end they are the losers haha 😂
@@AHVENAN Quote: "maybe they'd realize socialism isn't the devil incarnate after all"
Are you insane lol?
And what has taxes to do with socialism?
@FSboy70 The idea of taking tax money and use it to help the majority of the people, even those who have no job and medial problems, is a socialistisk idea.
Somewhere around 60-70% of Swedes, as in natives, are blonde. But keep in mind, blonde people aren't generally "blonde" for life. Me for example, first 8 years of my life I was really blonde. But 35 years later and I'm more "dark blonde". So someone who sees me might think I'm a brunette, when I'm "genetically" blonde 😉Females usually are better at naming these different hair colors than me 🤣 We have like a 100 names for different blondes (exaggeration) 😆
Both I and my brother had blond hair when we were young children, now I have dark brown hair.
My impression is that outside of Scandinavia ALL hair colours are considered ”blonde” unless it’s black or ginger. It was extremely confusing to me before I figured this out. My hair colour was a very dark brown before I went grey, but still in my passport it said ”dark blonde”...
I was extremely ligt blond as a child, but during my teens I got darker and darker. When I was in my twenties my hair was almost black, exept my beard that had a red tint to it, and when I was 30 the silver started to come, now all is silver.
@greenman4946
I see alot of Swedish people that cant see differences of dark hair colors aswell. Young Sylvester Stallone for example had brown hair but Swedish people just call it 'black'
Lmao! So Italians are also blonde because when they are young they have blonde hair but get black hair as adults?😂
We consider the prostitutes as victims and the buyers as perpetrators!
And to our taxes, its more like "all included benefits", when US is more like Airnb, they have to pay the rest out of pocket.. after taxes! There is not a big differens for ordanary income takers! But for poor people, that cant pay out of pocket!
Speak for yourself please...
first and foremost I would like to add that prostitutes often work for a pimp and dont get very good money since the pimp will take most of it. Second I will say that even if you get good money letting someone f*** you is very downgrading and effect your mental health in a very negative way (there are exceptions but they are very rare). This is why in Sweden selling is ok but not buying since most women (or in some cases men) choosing to work as prostitutes are out of options and should not be criminalized but instead the state should help them.
There's actually even more men than women that's working as prostitutes in Sweden. Sadly, that isn't well known and we always think of a girl when imagining a sex worker.
The buyers is still men though, and the guys that's selling sex is still in a dangerous and degrading position.
About your thoughts about only fans and prostituition...
Well, it is illegal to buy sex for the simple reason that it is assumed that the seller may have been forced into the situation. And noone should use any form of pressure or coercion to get sex. I fact, many think buying sex should be considered rape.
There is one exception, where people can be legally paid for sex. Porn. Put on a camera, pay the "actors", and get it done. For some reason, a camera being present somehow changes the whole situation. It is bizarre.
Oh yes I totally agree on it beeing considered as r@pe. Consent cannot be bought is my opinion!
One problem is that porn is almost just as scary and many are forced or groomed. Might be better with only fans, but it is still a industry that is heavily involved with sex trafficking. In generall things like this cannot ever be ethical as long as we live in a misogynistic society, in a patriarc. Its about power imbalance.
Here in Sweden you get free education like you say and you get csn when your in gymnasium in three years after ground school. And if you want a loan at csn when you go to college you pay back in a very low procent like 0,59 so it’s not a lot of money every month. And about health care you pay like 10-30 dollars for a doctors appointment and when you come up to 150 dollars you get one year free medical care from the first payment day. The same with median on description. I had an accident when I was 9 trauma brain bleeding and had 2 massive operations and was hospitalized for a long time both directly after the accident and rehabilitation. My parents only payed a small amount for the days I was in the hospital. And I had a surgery on my foot a few years ago and only payed like 50 dollars for the night I spend in hospital. A lot of people complain here about taxes but I think they don’t realize how lucky we are to get all this for free or at low cost.
Dwayne the law about prostitution are trying to protect the prostitutes who often are victims of human trafficking or something like that...
Many Swedes also have student loans, yes of course they are free to study, but you need to take out a loan to be able to live during the student period. Granted, you can work a little on the side so you don't have to take out so many loans, and you get a small part as a grant from the state, but I would say that normally it is that you accumulate about 12 thousand pounds in wages every year in student loans . So a four-year education gives about 50 thousand pounds.
However, we borrow from the government for these loans and they have almost no interest at all, and how quickly you need to pay them back depends on your income after your studies.
A-kassa aint free.. it's a insurance you pay so when you don't have a work get some money until you get at new job. "Försäkringskassan" is the part of the govermenet you get help, economic help.. a "income" if you don't have work enough, and had Akassa enough to be able to get Akassa. And you don't just get the money, you need to be active to actually get the money/help. . Otherwise you lose the economic help.
We do have student loans in Sweden as we have to pay for books (books, and there are a lot of them, are very expensive for university level courses), food and and accommodation. The actual classes at university are free. I do agree that it's much cheaper and more affordable to go to university here.
The debt is just crazy. We have student loans here in Sweden as well but they are interest free and maybe you need to pay back a few hundred pounds/year. You can even reduce the amount needed to be paid yourself on their website
Interest free? -Hell no!
Big income does'nt make you rich, not waisting it makes you rich!
the people who must sell their body for survival or for drugs their are victims and the people who use those people for their own pleasure
are predators.
Americans don't think all of us swedes come from Stockholm, simply because they haven't heard of Stockholm. Many of them have heard about London, but a little village in the east of Sweden.... . they have no idea.
We also take studielån in sweden,not for school but for Livingroom and rent if you cant live hom after 18 years old
Every Swede I know, me included, just finds us getting mixed up with Switzerland funny.
As for prostitution, as a Swede I think it's stupid the way we have it. It made sense when I was an impressionable kid, but as I've grow older the less sense it's made. It should either be fully illegal or fully legal. Keeping it half legal keeps it in the shawods, unregulated, with no laws or institutions to support it. Personally I think it should be a fully legal, taxed service, with laws and regulations governing it. Having it half legal means that by neccessity it has to stay in the shadows. That's not even getting into the potential for prominent clients being blackmailed and subsequent revenge violence in response. Then there's the hypocrisy of producing porn being legal. The only difference between the two types of sex work is that a third party pays both participants and films it.
One thing people from the US get wrong about Sweden is that the healthcare is free. It's not free, but it is very affordable and good. I have a friend who took a bad tumble in some stairs and hurt his ankle, bad swelling, (tiny) bone splinter, and a small fracture in his heel bone. I took him to the hospital for his follow-up visit yesterday. He got a follow-up x-ray and a visit to an orthopedic specialist. The visit was done in about an hour and a half. The visit cost, total, $25. Your healthcare costs is also capped (högkostnadsskydd) at $200 dollars per month or €2000 a year, whichever is lower. Anything beyond that is free.
Haha, and maybe we should bulid a wall?
Free stuff like free healthcare, A-kassa, or unlimited sick days could be abused, but when everyone is paying for it via taxes you will get a feeling of social responsibility to do your best and use it properly. Otherwise you're not only abusing the government, but also abusing all the other citizens like your neighbors. I believe this has a big impact, that the socialism is so rooted in the culture that "we're all in this together".
What I'm seeing regarding USA culture is leaning more towards "as long as I have it good". Especially with the "American dream" ideology. For USA to get free healthcare then there needs to be such a big culture change that it'll get abused if it's introduced in the wrong way. For USA to get free healthcare it needs to happen in coordination with changing the culture, which needs years (if not multiple generations) to happen. And considering the size of the country in addition with things like getting a new president with such swinging motives every 4 years, then it'll probably take a really long time (multiple lifetimes), or unless something catastrophic happens and they get a clean slate to start off on (e.g civil wars, starvation due to climate change, etc).
Weed is legal in Portugal, Spain, Malta, Luxembourg and Germany is next in line
Btw... No, Swedes doesn't get triggered by being mistaken for Switzerland... We mock you, because Americans gets offended by everything
I think the law about prsotitution makes sense as most prostitues are in need of money
The money are for drugs. Because in Scandinavia, no woman need to prostiture for a living with that generous welfare system. So there are two types of prostitutes. Those who do drugs and those who find is sexy. The latter is not the most common, but they exist.
that is a law that is wierd... its legal to sell sex, but illegal to buy sex. Here is the other part that is wierd, it's against the law to entice other people to break the law (ie selling sex, since you are basicly enticing another to do an illegal thing (buying sex). To be honest, I don't think they thought it all through.
In my book it is a compliment to be mixed up with Switzerland, because for me their politician system which is direct democracy is in my book the best version of democracy you can have in a country. It is the only way to truely give the power to the people when it works as it should. For me as soon as you use your body as a product you are in my eyes a prostitute, it may be a wrong way of looking at it but I dont get why it would be a difference to be out on the street selling your body or on a official webpage like onlyfans. Sure, you may not meet up with the person but with todays technology you can for sure make peoples do sexual stuff on a distance so to me as I said its no difference at all. I think the reason why it is legal to be prostitute in sweden and illegal to buy, is because if you get kidnapped and forced into prostitution through humantrafiking you shouldt be convicted for it as you have done it only to not get tortured or shot. The problem with a law like that is that you open up for those who wants to make a great living on tricking peoples into buying your services and at the same time get no consequences for it.. I mean if you take it to the extreme it is possible in sweden to make a fake profile as a girl on a social platform, sell sexualised materials to clients and if you get taken down you will probably only get convicted for using the materials rather than the fact that you sold it to someone else. Thank god I have never heard of that happening in any greater scales but yea, it isnt a bulletproof law thats for sure.. Making all illegal would have been better in my book but with an exception that IF you can PROVE that you have been forced into it the law doesnt apply in the same way. Im no expert for sure, in nothing I comment on your youtube channel but I love to discuss things and share both sides of the coin as very much peoples tend to just tell the good side. Great video as always!
A kassa -intonation on the A
What arguments are there for having prostitution illigal in The first place?
Yeah, America is not a country I would want to live in 😅
The americans Are not like mtg .
I think Drew confused things that mildly annoy us, or is such an (to us) obvious example of 'american ignorance'. We don't get particularly 'triggered' by anyone confusing us with Switzerland.
agree, not triggering at all...
Im from Sweden, and i think the law are pretty great, since as you are saying you are vulnerable as a prostitute but the one who buys is the culprit.
It is rather a North European thing that there are many blondes and blue-eyed people and not just Sweden. Also in Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Estonia there are blonde blue-eyed people.
Swede here, on prostitution, the idea is that those who sell sex expose themselves to a lot of risks as they sell. If prostitution were illegal, then they are extra vulnerable as if they seek help, they would instead be charged with crimes. Now if they are exposed to crime while selling, they can contact the police or social services and get help without being scared of being prosecuted. As for why it is illegal to buy, that stems down to the fact that we consider prostitution as a whole bad. So by criminalizing it, we minimize its spread.
It also helps the people who are victims of human trafficking which is a huge problem in Europe, women getting kidnapped or tricked in to going in to prostitution in other countries shouldn't be punished for it.
And it is also a care to take since many prostitutes are coming from abuse as children... We ideologically don't regard it as okay to buy someone's body to use.
To buy sex is to pay for rape, that is why buying but not segling is illegal. No girl grow up dreaming of segling sex, if they are not forced in to it they have almost always been abused before.
@@zetsuki4207 it doesn't help the victims.
1. The prostitutes that come from other countries don't know the Swedish law so they might be afraid for the police.
2. Those who are tricked to come (trafficking) are locked in a room which is very hard to escape from.
3. You need an invitation to see the women. The seller is very shy and don't trust any stranger. So it's also very hard to find these women. "Real stories" have documentary on TH-cam about sex trafficking.
4. They don't have any passports, the pimp stole it from them.
5. After the trial the prostitute is thrown out, she has no legal right to be here, especially since she don't have a passport. She goes back to her home country where a new pimp catch her.
Sweden do not help these women, they might let her stay for some time since they need her as a witness, after that it's bye bye. This is at least how it used to be.
@@reineh3477 The law does help them, since it DOESN'T crminalize them for being victims of human trafficking. I didn't say it helps them stay in the country, it doesn't, but it doesn't make their lives harder. Of course they don't know Swedish law, but if they're brought in by the police after a raid they aren't charged with prostitution like they probabnly would have in a lot of other countries.
In the end if the difference is 6% between the US and Sweden, those 6% gives you:
- Mandatory 5 weeks paid vacation every year
- Unlimited number of days of paid sick leave
- 480 days paid parental leave per child from they are born up till the age of 12
- Free health care for children to the age of 18-20 and the elderly above 85
- Free dental care for children to the age of 23 and much cheaper for the elderly
- Free glasses for kids and other assets they need if handicapped
- A monthly, governmental allowance for all children every month
- Free or subsidized kindergarten and daycare
- Free education all the way through university
- Student allowance (like a salary for studying) combined with or without one part of student loan
- Public libraries - free to use with free accessible wifi
- Paid pension when you retire
- Free care for the elderly regardless their needs
And also our tax money is spent on military defence, police, roads, nature, art, cleaning the city, public transportations ...
As a socialist myself I like this even though Sweden for a very long time has had social democracy some terms and right wing politics some terms. The right wing politics are constantly chewing down the old system sometimes for the good but mostly for the bad and currently we have a situation where venture capitalists are sucking out tax money from the education system and the health care system and we also have the highest income caps seen since I don't know when. My opinion is that the right wing parties are responsible and continue doing this while at the same time blaming immigration and the left, moving the country further and further down the happiness-index for reasons of greed.
Some more information about the points given here, to give a more fair picture.
- 20 vacation days are mandatory, you can save 5 per year up to 5 years. So you can get 20 + 25 days vacation if you save 5 days for 5 years. You can ask to have these 5 days as money instead, but the employer is not required to transform the days to money. The same is from the employer, they cannot force you to take money instead of vacation.
- The employer pay up to 14 days of sick leave, on day 8 a medical certificate is needed to keep getting the benefit. After 14 days the employee have to apply for "sickness benefit" from the "insurance fund" and that will have some requirements attached to it.
- 390 days of the paid parental leave is based on your salary, the remaining give 180 SEK per day. However, if you take care of the children yourself without the other parent involved, you get all 480 days paid based on your salary.
- Health care is free up to age 20, this include dental care. The dental care is free up to age 24 as well. There is also "high cost protection" if you need health or dental care (some things are excluded such as beauty procedures). This can make it very cheap to get health care after you reach the limit for the high cost protection. You also get a subsidy that you can save one year.
- Free glasses are given to children and juveniles. Between age 8 - 19 the individual have right to is a subsidy from the the county council for glasses and/or contact lenses. The subsidy varies between the counties.
- The "barnbidrag" I suspect he refers too is an allowance given to the parent(s). At the moment it is 1250 SEK, and then an extra amount for every child after that. Two children give 150 SEK extra. Parents can give the child the entire amount, part of it or none of it. But this allowance is to help with the costs of having a child.
- Free public education, there are exceptions that may cost the student money to participate in, but these are not hidden fees, they are fees shown before even applying.
- The amount you get as a subsidy is 913 SEK and 2100 SEK as a loan per week if you study full time (2013). There is no requirement that you take a loan so if you are able you can go through university without taking any loans. I know some that had parents that helped so a loan wasn't needed. The only cost would be course material such as books.
- Nothing more to say about the libraries.
- The pension is important to keep an eye on, even if there is a state pension you can get a very low pension if you aren't paying attention.
Another important point is that
- Debts aren't inherited, if anyone in your family have a huge debt and they pass away, it won't be split on the remaining family. However, their estate can receive payment claims if they have debt, this mean that any heritage may be lost due to these debts.
- We have a very good social security net if you lose your job, even if you aren't a part of a unemployment fund. There are requirements to receive this help such as be active in looking for a job and do certain activities the employment agency give you.
- Taxes depends on the region you live in, I pay 33.94% in municipal income tax. Then we have VAT that is on all purchases, that is already calculated in the price. So if a product say $25, it will be $25 when you pay for it. As far as I am aware this is not included in the price in for example the US.
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www.studentum.se/Sections/faq/FAQQAA.aspx?questionid=10326&subjectid=
www.ekonomifakta.se/Fakta/Regional-statistik/Alla-lan/Norrbottens-lan/Boden/?var=17250
www.forsakringskassan.se/arbetsgivare/sjukdom-och-skada/om-din-medarbetare-blir-sjuk
www.forsakringskassan.se/privatperson/foralder/barnbidrag-och-flerbarnstillagg
www.synoptik.se/glasogon/barnglasogon
www.1177.se/sa-fungerar-varden/kostnader-och-ersattningar/patientavgifter/
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www.forsakringskassan.se/privatperson/tandvard/missa-inte-ditt-tandvardsbidrag
This is the best comment I have ever had, read or seen at TH-cam- Thanks for your effort!@@kwahlman
by the way, Semesterlagen says 25 mandatory days.@@kwahlman
Glasses are NOT free for kids! You get 800 sek per year, which is enough to get the cheapest possible pair for free, but not more. So if you have more expensive needs (like special eye problems or really bad eyesight) or just want your kid to choose the frames themselves you still have to pay a lot... (My oldest’s glasses cost ~3k, the frames were 1.4 of that.)
Pensionen är inte skattefinansierad, det har inget med skatten att göra. Det är våra egna pengar som vi sparar ihop.
I personally think it's morally wrong to pay for a prostitute.
A lot of the time, meaning most of the time, it's people who are either forced into prostitution by someone or are in a bad place economically and force themselves into it.
Whatever reason for someone to become a prostitute, at the end of the day as a buyer you are taking advantage and using a person in a terrible position.
So could the case be with cleaners, manicurists, pizzeria workers etc. There are tons and tons of exploited people in all kinds of sectors who are forced into them.
@@mattiasbrunzell8957yes that too, many human traffickings in the work force but prostitution is also a problem of consent. You cannot buy consent.
Yeah, 20-30 years ago Swedish people would love a green card to US. Now all (?) vids is about the opposite, US citizens want to move here (or europe in general).
I did find this on google.The total area of the USA is 9833520 km². The total area of geographic Europe is 10180000 km². So the answer is: Europe is bigger than the USA. Therefore, USA is slightly smaller than Europe. USA has a population of 339,996,563 while EU has 448,922,216. In the whole of Europe not only EU the population is about 747 000 000.
Google ant wurth to be trusted. As you the Swedish person would think your guys are smart in the tech space like games and stuff net spaces like google services and others i could name off.
The prostetute thingbis basically as he said to protect the women, many prostetutes dont have a choice or maybe theyre forced into prostitution.
When it comes to Illegal to buy legal to sell we do that with most things, if it isn't drugs that is. It is to protect people in bad situations and giving them a way to get help and not jail.
And OF is porn, not prostitution.
Most people who get higher education in Sweden end up with student loans, too, although not as high as in the US (or UK for that matter). Yes, the education itself is free, and we even get a couple of thousand per month from the government. BUT lodging/renting an apartment or room (even in dorms) are not free which is why most people take student loans. I just paid off my student loan last year (I am 44 :)).
Also, student loans in Sweden are extremely low in tax and intrest rate, whereas the loans in the US I have heard people on the internet talking about paying off over 100k dollars on a 80k loan and having over 70k of the loan left to pay (could be a slight exaggeration).
lol you are correcting him on his swedish AND you are right!! hahah A-kassa :D
he was not right, it doesn't prounounce akassa, it is A-kassa
even if uni is free you still have to have your own maintnance in Sweden. Rent food and so forth you still have to get a student loan or a job.
Its absolutely better that its illegal to buy sex but legal to sell sex. A vast majority of prostitutes are forced into it and actually get very little for it. Most prostitutes are from other countries and many are smuggled or tricked into the country not knowing the language or the laws. Not criminalising them makes it easier to reach out and help them, reducing distrust and stigma. The only alternative in order to effectively help these people is to legalise the entire thing. Criminalising booth creates an inpossible situation. Might be different in nations were people truly struggle to get by. No swedish person have that same level of struggle if they dont voluntarily refuse help. I hope this helps.
A few problems.
1. The prostitutes that come from other countries don't know the Swedish law so they might be afraid for the police.
2. Those who are tricked to come (trafficking) are locked in a room which is very hard to escape from.
3. You need an invitation to see the women. The seller is very shy and don't trust any stranger. So it's also very hard to find these women. "Real stories" have documentary on TH-cam about sex trafficking.
4. They don't have any passports, the pimp stole it from them.
5. After the trial the prostitute is thrown out, she has no legal right to be here, especially since she don't have a passport. She goes back to her home country where a new pimp catch her.
Sweden do not help these women, they might let her stay for some time since they need her as a witness, after that it's bye bye.
Yes, Swedish prostitutes can get help but since it's illegal to buy the meeting usually happens in very dark places so the buyer don't get caught.
I wanted to comment something similar to explain this but you wrote it better than I would have 😅
@@reineh3477I agree with all of your points, but I do believe it’s better to keep it illegal to buy sex than to make it legal - no opinion on the selling part though!
Dont forget that it is ILLEGAL to make others commit crimes (ie by selling sex you are enticing they buyer to commit a crime)
@@axxis30 Yeah, but to my knowledge the law isn’t really used or meant to be used like that. It’s more so for crimes like paying for murder and such from what I understand.
His problem with the pronunciation of a-kassa probably stems from that it's a shortening of the original word. The A is just the first letter in arbetslöshet (unemployment). The real name for it is arbetslöshetskassa, which translates to unemployment fund. So you pronounce it like 'a kassa', which approximately sounds like the ow-sound in English followed by the spanish casa.
Here in Sweden we usually say this during Ice hockey VC
"This is the only time when ameicans realize that Switzerland and Sweden are NOT the same country. Hahahahaha
It always a good video when Dwayne starts roasting the Americans🤣
A lot of Americans don't even know that Sweden is a country. I have a cousin living in the US since early 90's, and during her time on University she often got the question, after telling them she is from Sweden, "Ohh in which state is that?".
That might have something to do with the fact that there’s several cities in the US that are called Sweden. There’s also at least four Stockholm.
Hi Dwayne. I am 55 years old and live in Sweden. I have student loans as well. When I was young I took loans while studying and when I was 40:ish I studied again. At that time I was a father of three which gave me additional money to the loan as a contribution. The good thing is that when you have to pay your loans the rate is dependent on your salary. The higher salary you have the higher rate because you can afford it. If I die the loan is ended. My kids does not have to pay my loans. There is an age limit for getting loans and it is now 60 years. That is because the state needs to get some money back. Most Swedes that study after turning 40 (usually that happens because you are boored with your job and you want to try something new) never pays the whole loan.
The rules where changed in 2001, for those who took loans after, like me, have a much shorter span to pay back the loans, usually 10 max 20 years. Also the minimum of payback per month can be quite high for those who have a very low income. My monthly pay back was one tenth of my income a month, which is a lot when the income is so low. I finished my studies in 2006 and have payed back all my student loans for all my years already.
Also, while the cap to take out student loans are 60, years it is gravely heavily limited and very strict after you are 51.
You also just have a number of weeks that you can take student loans for, and when those are used up, that's it. They are also limited to what type of education it is.
So the University education I wanted to go to usually had a 3 year pre-study education, but you can only get 2 years student loans for that type of studies, so I couldn't go as I was dependent on student loans to go to that school.
If you get sick and have a low income you can get your debt postponed for like a year, but if you do that, you will end up in a higher interest bracket for the rest of your payment period.
And in my experience, most who study after 40, is because they have either lost their job and can't get a new one in their proffession and HAVE to re-educate themselves, or they have gone through health issues that forces them to change proffession, or the unemployment office have forced them to change profession as otherwise they won't get any unemployment payments. I've met plenty of people who have to go back to school after 40, many of them don't have any other choice and many of them only have already used up a number of their students loan weeks in their 20s, so they might not have many left to take.
If you are a student in Sweden, you get about 3.700 SEK (339$/277£) for free every month (about 9,5 months of the year, the rest you have to finance yourself) and on top of that you can take a student loan with a very low interest rate for about 8.500 SEK per month (778$/637£) for a total of about 12.200 SEK per month for a student to live on. This is possible to manage, but you'll most likely need to work during the summers and so on.
When it comes to taxes, that is far from the whole picture. First of all, a huge part of the tax for is paid directly by the employer, almost 32%. On top of that the tax is between 29 and 35 % depending on where in the country, what municipality you live in. On top of that, we have an (almost) flat sales tax of 25% (food and culture are lower) that increases the taxes drastically. And if you earn a lot of money, the taxes increase drastically as well.
So if you make 40.000 a month as an employee, your actual salary is 52.800, but the employer pays 12.800 in tax that you will never see. Then you pay about 30% of your 40.000 (12000) so you actually have a higher salary than you think, but pay a lot more tax as well, about 47%. Since the cost for the employer is 52.800 and not 40.000, this is what you are "worth" and what your actual salary is. Some people argue that "but you never see that money so it is not your tax, it is the employer's", no, that is correct that you don't see them, but you don't see the other taxes either, they are also paid by the employer, so with that logic, you salary is 28.000 with 0% tax.
Taxes on gas, alcohol & tobacco are even higher somewhere around 80%, not to mention electricity which is double taxed.
When I graduated in 2005 here in Sweden, I had about 250 000 SEK in student loan debt, the interest on student loans is lower than on other loans, and it's better than many places, but there is interest, I'm far from paying it off. If you can't live with your parents you then it's free. But otherwise you still have to pay rent, pay for food, books etc. I'm not sure about numbers nowadays, but you get some money for free. When I went to school, that pretty much covered the cost of the books and nothing else, and there is no fee to go to University. So it's free in that way. It's free for anyone living in the EU, I think, when I went to school if was free for anyone, but, yeah, books, rent etc, cost
A lot of prostitution is not by free will and in a vulnerable situation or even a trafficking victim. With that said not all, but it is impossible to have a fruitful debate with today's woke culture and feminism. It is political suicide, just like de-criminalizing marijuana for example.
Perhaps that is for the best it is not a hot topic for me personally and even though I can understand the argument to abolish it I am far from sure it is morally right to look the other way at all women who truly are victims of it.
Interesting to see you put feminism as pro prostitution when being against it has been at the core of feminism since... forever. Yes, there are many types of feminism but I'd say the majority of feminists are still against prostitution, for the exact same reasons you are. At least in Sweden.
Dwayne, it is pretty much the same as in the UK as Sweden, prostitution is legal, but Soliciting, and Pimping (living of the earnings of a prostitute) is illegal. It is counter productive to prosecute ( fine ) prostitutes, as they will need to work more, so you tend to make the issue worse.
A-kassa.
You said it quite perfectly when you mocked him (lovingly), acually.
(A stands for ”arbetslöshet”, which means worklessness as in unemployed. Arbete=work lös=less het=ness.)
Prostitutes are people who are down on their luck thanks to themselves or someone else and throwing the Prostitute in prison won't help them stop being a Prostitute.
But if you arrest their clients the Prostitutes are forced to find another way to earn money.
Of course it would...
@@lrrbloss Same simple mechanism as when violent people cannot hurt or kill more incocent victims when locked in...
I'm not for putting these women in prison though. They did nothing morally wrong (and neither did the men paying them).
@@herrbonk3635 I don't have any problems with stripclubs, prostitution or whore houses but the question is are they working there because they want to or is someone forcing them to work there.
@@lrrbloss I'm not much for it! But as long as they are not physically forced (or equivalent), that's none of our business.
Also, although no requisite in any way, I firmly belive in the so called "myth" that many do it because they like it. That's not based on wishfull thinking either, but long life experience talking to women.
@@herrbonk3635 I agree there are those who like it and history shows that women have sold their bodies sense the stone age to get things they want but the question is how do we know who's forced and who isn't?
About Americans who think MJ is legal in Sweden (and in the EU in general).
I've seen a fair share of posts on Reddit where people from the US want to leave "for a more progressive country". They have heard from various sources that Europe in general and Sweden in particular is so progressive with gender equality, parental leave, worker's rights, etc that they basically just imprint whatever they consider to be "progressive" on Sweden.
So they think Sweden is a progressive country, that must mean they have legalized MJ and other substances, right?
Then they get surprised that Sweden is NOT as "progressive" as they had thought.
Not to mention when people get full on panicattacks when they hear that in Sweden everything about you is available publicly (your full name, phone number, address, your annual earning (estimated from how much you paid in tax which includes both salary, sidehussles, stocks, etc), who you live with (other people registered at same address), etc.
If you think about prostitution. Think of the big problem TRAFFICING by force young women. We can not punish the women. But the men who pay for sex and the men who make the traffecing happen. These women are forced and held as prisoners.
Prostitution is not legal in Sweden, but the prostitute cannot be sentenced to any punishment for having prostituted herself. All criminal responsibility lies with the person who wants to pay for sex.
In Spanish (i think, but maybe Portugese!?) Sweden is Suecia, and Switzerland is Suiza. Maybe that's part of the confusion?
You got it right about prositution. Sweden regards the prostitutes as victim (mostly women) and the buyer as someone who takes advantage of a vounderable person. That´s why we have that law. Most of them are in the hands of pimps or syndicates in Sweden and also abroad so they rarely make so much money for themselves
I dont think that drugs actually is legal in Amsterdam, its just that the police dont do anything about it as long as people "do it" in the coffee shops. But a country were MJ actually Is legal (sort of) and EVERY DRUGS KNOWN TO MAN, is Portugal. Well it's isn't legal, it's decriminalized to use drugs for self use.
I seem to recall that you own 3 MJ plants for personal use.
Dont ppl in the Usa have State tax to so you have 22% and state tax on top!
I had a rough time in school or a bit so i had to repeat a grade. still graduated at 20. had a full time job that i started the monday after graduation. now almost 3 years later im still at the same company and love my job. aswell with our "collective contracts" if the company would have to cut down on staff is always last in=first out. due to that. i have a very safe work place aswell as there are about 50 people employed after me.
There was a funny joke going around when the American rapper ASAP Rocky was in jail here in Sweden (because of him and his bodyguard assaulting a guy). Trump was asking us to let him go. The answer was, of course, no because of the pending investigation. The joke:
"I really hope Sweden will let ASAP Rocky go before Donald Trump nukes Switzerland"
Yes it's leagal to sell sex in Swdden, but illeagal to buy. The trick, to get around this, is to film having sex, and publish it on the Internet. Then it's not prostitution, it's making art (a movie). And the finacial exchange is just a normal payment for work (acting) rendered.
Yes it's weird, but that's what illogical moral laws gets you!
So, the tax thing is misleading. The thing he showed is just income tax. That doesn't include the "Arbetsgivaravgift" which is a fee paid on your tax of 31%. Then you have Moms, which is the VAT, which averages around 20-25%. Then you have several so-called "Punktskatter", which are special taxes on certain things, generally to disincentivise things.
The United States isn't bigger than Europe; it's smaller!
Yeah, it's bigger when you include Alaska and Hawaii, but that is not what you think about when you think of "America", but the other 48 states that form the mass between Mexico and Canada...
"State" is another word for country, and every state in America has their own government, and the Union of States have a President...
We have the same thing in Europe, ffs with the "European Union"...
American states have the same area as a European country... Not as every country, but there are different sizes of both
Hey! Swede here! SO the reason WHY prostitution is allowed to SELL and NOT BUY is because no one can decide over someone’s body, but they can stop the people that are willing to pay for it. That’s the only reason it’s legal to sell. Yes it also helps the victims of human trafficking and the people that have been forced into it, but that’s the main reason
I really don’t get how Switzerland and Sweden could be mixed up 🤷♀️😂. All because two letter? Itzerland and eden doesn’t look or sound particularly alike.
When talking to Americans or Britts who misstake Sweden for Switserland, i make an consious point of asking them, Like Americans what part of either Mexico or Canada they are from. Or Britts what part of Australia they are from. Sure it's extreme differences, but it gets the point across.
About prostetution in sweden. It's legal to sell but illegal to buy. And as a swede this law is enforced all over the world. You as a swede can't go to a country where it's legal to buy, and do it there. If you are found out, you get prosecuted when you come back home. In my opinion it should be legal to both buy and sell. But there should be laws to protect the sellers and buyers. Madatory STD test after and before doing it. The seller needs to be in a establichment that is guarded and have high standards and not a rundown howel. The people who work there need to have a way to get help whitin seconds incase some one gets nutty and try to do somthing they shouldent. Any one who work there have to do so willingly on their own, and have to be swedish nationalist (A native of sweden, so no trafficing can get involved.) and the place have to be monitored by the lawenforcement so nothing illigal goes on there, Aka transparent and so on. Nations where prostitution have been made legal, have seen a sharp decrease in domestic abuse and sexual assaults. This is one of the reasons why I think it should be made legal for both parts. But it needs to have laws and rules in place to protect both sides.
Also Denmark in a area/city called christiania is also legal with drugs. And yeah you are in sweden allowed to sell your body because it's your right. BUT you are not allowed too buy it because that would be lawbreak. Sweden is very hmm strange for many far away :)
About guns. Yes. I don't get how everyone can get a gun. That is bound to backfire in my opinion.
About the prostitution thing.
Make prostitution completely legal and heavily enforce all sorts of regulations to keep both parties of the transaction safe and so on.
Sweden isn't quite there yet, we still have some of the old time religious damage lingering in ideas of morality.
But we've made some headway on that old religious damage.
So at least we want to minimise the damage.
Are all sex workers forced into it and victims. No. But some percentage are.
Are the people buying sex forced into it and can be considered victims in the transaction. Pretty much no, never, that doesn't really happen ever.
So we chose to not impose further risk of harm by making it a crime to the party that are potentially at risk.
It's just that simple.
I agree with the prostitution laws. The prostitute are more vulnerable. Those buying is not what so ever vulnerable in the same way. So the law is for the most vulnerable group and I completely agree with our law on that. I see I am 6 month late to commenting on this. But it is still in my flow so... :D
Sweden is one of the countries in Europe that has the strictest and harshest rules against narcotics of all forms. Even medical marijuana is not allowed. Since you said you only knew Stockholm can I inform you that Sweden is Europe's fifth largest country in terms of size and is more than twice the size of the UK😊
Just a pointer. Nothing is free. We pay it back with insane taxes. I'm a high incomer and I pay 66 percent marginal tax.
many big countries scare me as many of them have delusions of grandeur in my opinion. I want peace and quiet and personal space. With kind regards, a Swede.
culturally and racially swiss and swedes are actually quite alike the natives that is. "michale Jackson" is also legal in Portugal. in some ways nr3 falls on its own backside its complex. in all germanic countries blond is common its more facial traits but then all germanics have similar.
thats a myth about america they do rigourous controlls and mental health checks. in sweden all criminals carry guns but not the civilians.
instead sweden is the biggest weapons inventor and exporter in europe :P
both are wrong with A-Kassa xD
well also nothing in sweden is free you will learn that later.
we get gigantig student debts too
many friends of mine from school are stil in debt i just got lucky oh yeah and im not too young either :P so are they.
that video guy is actuallt wrong on so many things cant list all of them i live here and have for all my life if you want it all corrected in detail i can do that.
You did bring up a good point America is much bigger then most European countries. Most European countries are bout half the size of America so its much easier to go from one country to another country.
A fun and similar situation to the prostitution law is alcohol laws! It is completely legal for minors to drink alcohol but it is instead completely illegal to supply minors with alcohol. This similar to the prostitution laws is to protect the kids in the situation.
The reasoning is that a kid who we do not see as legally mature enough to make educated decicions regarding alcohol should not be punnished for consuming it when by legal context we dont consider minors to understand the felon itself. We simply cannot punish someone who is not mature enough to have a coherent understanding of what crime they are comitting. Instead we punish the source to make sure that pople who are actually deemed to be mature enough to understand the consequences of alcohol are punnished for endangering children.
We have student loans but that loan was for living during studying, you dont pay the university anything
I love that cat ❤❤❤😂
Any tool like wepons can hurt someone. Its up to the one holding the tool if he is dangerous or not. Why are weapons illigal but not knifes or hammers? Its not the tool that should get The blame for irrisponsible people
About prostitution. Most of The women is forst inte that and to protect them we say that is legal. Or they dont want but do it for money it can be rape charge in guy even if The girl dont talk.
americanss not knowing the difference between countries dont have anything to do with how easy/hard it is to travel, its because their education system only focus on america because according to them its the greatest in the world and they dont need to learn about other contries lol
My dad is a millionaire 😂 so you can be rich in Sweden despite the high taxes 🤷♀️.
It's not prostitution if you film it and sell the movie. Then it's acting with paid actors.
blondes may be the most cmoon hair color here but brunettes have became more common (in my opinion)
10:35 She and her ilk scare me plus how terrifyingly stupid people can be .
Also, last time I checked, sweden had more millionaires and billionaires than the US does.
It’s sick seeing my teacher get some attention, he’s been doing youtube quite a while now
Today I will say it is because Americans' attention spans end after two letters.
MJ It's not legal in the Netherlands it's Decriminalised
american "edumacation" doesnt help them to string more then 2 letters together :)
Hi Andrew! I live in LInköping - swedish, but not blond ;)
Who pays the most taxes in the world?
Highest tax burden in the world.
1. Denmark. 46.9%
2. France. 45.1%
3. Austria. 43.5%
4. Italy. 43.3%
5. Finland. 43.0%
6. Sweden. 42.6%
Employer contributions are included in salary. So the employee's money, not the employer's. Important to remember.
Vem betalar mest skatt i världen?
Högst skattetryck i världen.
1. Danmark. 46,9%
2. Frankrike. 45,1%
3. Österrike. 43,5%
4. Italien. 43,3%
5. Finland. 43,0%
6. Sverige. 42,6%
Arbetsgivaravgifter är innehållen lön. Alltså arbetstagarens pengar inte arbetsgivarens. Viktigt att komma ihåg.
6:57 lol dont think the onlyfans persons think that but yes in a way they are .
Thr US are bigger than the EU, but notbigger than Europe.
ThatGuy is my old music teacher🔥🔥
Europe actually has a larger land area than the US
Indeed its legal too sell your body but illegal to buy.
No he has wrong we all no its ok in nederländerna
Scandinavians in general travel a lot.