One problem is the stereotypically ideal socialist countries – the Scandinavian ones – have very tough immigration rules
They also have unique circumstances around racial / cultural homogeneity and sovereign wealth / resources that help with cohesiveness and generous benefits – and those can’t be easily replicated
I don’t want to leave my family, my community or the places I live near that I love. But if I could trade out my government for Iceland’s or Norway’s, I would in a heart beat.
Exactly. Immigration is hard, and very costly in more ways than just literally going to another place. Changing one’s government is, too, but in different ways that are distributed over the society it governs.
So if I was alone and without family or friends or language or a job to tie me to the place I live? Absolutely I would emigrate to somewhere more socialistic, not least because I’d be in a prime position to benefit from it, but also because I think it’s morally right to organize society in a way that protects its most vulnerable.
If it was someplace in Europe, absolutely. I would have zero qualms about ditching this dystopia. Sure, other places have their issues, but few are as bad the the US. With the far right takeover of the Supreme Court, it won’t be very long until the “land of the free” is no freer than Russia or China.
No because most of those places are too cold
Why would I move somewhere that America is planning a military coup?
