[–] fishmantis ago (edited ago)
Life is defined by struggle, and if we entirely remove it, then you start getting mass epidemics of things like depression and anxiety because people can neither find purpose to fight for, or a sense of strong identity to see purpose in. Fortunately, you can only avoid it for so long. Struggle is finding its way back to us.
[–] tracheapunchables ago
As my Norwegian friend explained to me, the only way Norway and Sweden were able to keep up those systems was because they had massive natural resources that the government made massive profits off of and fed that money into everything they needed. He was telling me that parts of his (Norway's) finances nearly broke when oil prices fell.