This isn't connect to just the scarcity of the land. People can live without bitcoin and the Mona Lisa, but you can't live without land. If you want to take this to the extreme imagine if somebody owns the whole country. Housing is a human right.
It is? It’s “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, not life, <deleted> and purported happiness under socialism, where you are assigned housing and a job.
Housing was guaranteed in the old Soviet Union, but if you didn’t cooperate, the housing was in the gulag.
Because freedom is not absolute it does not mean I'd want to give whatever freedom I have away
Under socialism you do not get do pick jobs at will. And you better show everyone how happy you are at the job assigned to you.
"You don't have to live in your country, you are free to go."
Many have died for this freedom alone. And you don't have to go to North Korea to know this. Right in the heart of (now) western Europe people were shot dead for running away through the Berlin wall.
How come people risk death to run away from the utopia? They must be counter-revolutionaries better murder whatever family they left behind
> Under socialism you do not get do pick jobs at will. And you better show everyone how happy you are at the job assigned to you.
Socialism might mean you have more choice of work, because there is greater social mobility and access to education. Perhaps also you might work for a "cooperative" firm, where every employee is a part owner and gets to vote on issues and a take on the profits.
Yeah because those are dictatorships which have no meaningful socialism. I measure it in terms of worker power, not how authoritarian the state is or what it calls itself.
I'm sorry but you are spreading misinformation. The Swiss are not anti-vax in general and they are not against the Covid vaccine. Switzerland is 63.7% vaccinated.
In any case not getting the vaccine doesn't make someone uneducated. Switzerland has some of the best schools and universities in the world. In 2018, 44% of 25-64 year-olds had completed a tertiary qualification in Switzerland, compared to 39% on average across OECD countries. [1]
Which I said I find it to be very low in comparison to countries like Spain and Portugal where the rate is nearly 100% so having only 64% points to a large number of anti-vaxers similar to Eastern Europe.
>In any case not getting the vaccine doesn't make someone uneducated.
No? Then what does it make the other 36% who refuse to get vaccinated? En-masse refusal of a potentially life saving vaccine that will help end the pandemic doesn't really scream intelligence and education, does it?
creating your own definitions or metrics as to what would qualify someone as educated isn't helpful in a discussion.
you are also making assumptions that those who aren't yet vaccinated are anti-vax, which again isn't always the case they may have their own reasons for delaying or perhaps are perfectly fine with vaccines in general but distrust this particular one for whatever reason.
A person can be educated person can still be an unreasonable one.
>they may have their own reasons for delaying or perhaps are perfectly fine with vaccines in general but distrust this particular one for whatever reason.
So what does the swiss population know that the scientific and medical communities don't?
On the point of arresting people planning to protest, many protest around the world were fueled by the use of social media/messaging apps. So in that case its not obvious that it has a negative effect on democracy.
These happened due to networks, not our loss of privacy.
I understand your point is that our loss of privacy didn’t lead to arrests or in these instances, but there has almost certainly been arrests in other instances, and we’d be losing sight of the bigger picture if we deluded ourselves into believing oppressive governments, companies, billionaires, etc.. weren’t already heavily using mined data to counter dissidence movements in more ways than just arrests.
Governments responded to the Arab spring by taking social media much more seriously. There are a lot of ways to use social media to suppress and discourage dissent, outside of arrests; it's a very powerful counterintelligence tool.
You misunderstood the question. He is asking why are they honoring his title as Knight in Switzerland, when noble titles are usually abolished in republics.
A good example of this can be seen in the Constitution of the US.
"No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
This is a private company's communication, not official Swiss usage. Nor is he being afforded privileges or rights arising from his title, beyond the use of 'Sir'. The 'proper' usage also would have added his titles after his name - OM KBE (Order of Merit & Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
