There are already utopian countries

If you look at the top 10 countries in the world by any metric—the happiest places to live, the most desirable places to live, the countries that report the highest levels of life satisfaction, the countries with the lowest levels of poverty, the countries that top the human development index and the human freedom index—you’ll notice a trend: they always include some combination of the Nordic Countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, & Iceland), Luxembourg, Switzerland, New Zealand, and Singapore.

What makes these countries so utopian? Well, they all follow a blueprint that has come to be known as Democratic Socialism: where capitalism makes them the richest countries in the world, but the government taxes that income and distributes it to all of its citizens in the form of free childcare, free education, and free healthcare. (With the exception of Singapore, which provides these services as a sort of benevolent dictatorship which I’ve written about before.)

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