{"id":8523,"date":"2026-11-08T17:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/?p=8523"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:05:10","slug":"social-democracy-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/social-democracy-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Democracy WORKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A hard thing to explain about social democracy is that we WANT our taxes to go to the &#8216;undeserving.&#8217;<\/h2>\n<h2>Not because we&#8217;re naive.<\/h2>\n<h2>But because<b> it works.<\/b><b><\/b><\/h2>\n<h2>Healthy people <b>cost less<\/b>.<\/h2>\n<h2>Educated people <b>contribute more<\/b>.<\/h2>\n<h2>Housed people are <b>more stable.<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2>The &#8216;undeserving&#8217; are actually pretty <b>good investments.<\/b><b><\/b><\/h2>\n<h2>But the main point is that in a healthy society there are no &#8216;<b>undeserving<\/b>.&#8217;<\/h2>\n<h2>There are <b>just people.<\/b><b><\/b><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>Trond Solberg, Norway<\/i><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hard thing to explain about social democracy is that we WANT our taxes to go to the &#8216;undeserving.&#8217; Not because we&#8217;re naive. But because it works. Healthy people cost less. Educated people contribute more. Housed people are more stable.\u00a0 The &#8216;undeserving&#8217; are actually pretty good investments. But the main point is that in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-8523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-political","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8524,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shapednoise.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}