The Nordic countries who are capitalist have much better social programs so capitalism can work with a well functioning society, ie higher taxing, but people appear too selfish to want to pay anymore taxes.
Funnily enough most are Monarchs too...coincidence?
Monarchs and religions have longer thought times than 4 year election cycles so i think have longer term views of the consequences of actions
Its believed the boomers who were the original hippy movement funnily enough are the generation that seems to have kicked all this off, they were knows as generation me for a reason.
Shows like Seinfeld are a great representation of how selfish we have become, the show is all about selfishness, clever show.
It the success of capitalism though which has created industry that has made it easier for women to join in the workforce, look at any poor country and its mainly males who do most work outside home.
The whole system is a mess, capitalism should have created more spare time to spend with friends and family, but the opposite has happened and the only real outcome is we have more European cars and bigger houses whilst we put our kids in institutions with our elderly cause we are too busy to look after them as we have bigger and bigger houses to pay for.
Supposedly this is quite different in the Nordic countries, so we have to have a change of consciousness to get a society thats not so individualistic but where is that going to actually come from?
