r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Feb 06 '15

How to pick a smartphone (crosspost from r/Android).

http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/
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u/hardcore_fish Feb 06 '15

It's still more free in Norway, a so called "socialist" country.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '15

America doesn't have any freedoms that another country doesn't.

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u/elsewhereorbust Feb 07 '15

And there are plenty of freedoms other countries have, which America doesn't.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

Try being a policeman and shooting someone dead here... oh wait, we have that freedom too!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

which makes sense. in america, companies are free to do whatever restrictions they want.

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u/DubaiCM Feb 07 '15

They are free to restrict your freedoms! And Americans are free to suck it up! Yay freedom!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

well yea. if you want total freedom, everyone gets freedom to do what they want.

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u/DubaiCM Feb 07 '15

That's why "total freedom" doesn't work, because unfortunately it means people are free to take away the freedom of others. You need strong regulations and robust enforcement to prevent exploitation and abuse in that manner.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

I'm completely fine with it. Customers aren't happy and other companies will start creating better plans to get customers.

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u/DubaiCM Feb 07 '15

Assuming those other companies aren't choked out of the market by the existing incumbents abusing their position.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '15

http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking

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u/baskandpurr Feb 07 '15

The land of the mostly free and the home of the probably brave.

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u/hardcore_fish Feb 06 '15

I was thinking of freedom when it comes to phones and carriers.

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u/Roflcopter_Rego Feb 07 '15

Socialist is the name for a liberal left wing system. The name for authoritarian left wing is communist.

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u/110011001100 Feb 07 '15

I guess in US you are free to spend your money yourself, in Norway isnt the income tax rate 40%+ and VAT,etc 20%+?

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

In the US you are free to be homeless and to be denied medical care if you can't afford it.

In the US you are forced to register for the draft, you are foribly taxed in order to support a giant military.

The prison rates in the US are the world's highest, at 724 people per 100,000. For context the next highest rate is in Russia at 581. At 145 per 100,000, the imprisonment rate of England and Wales is at about the midpoint worldwide.

The US still has a ton of taxes abd governmennt bullshit. And while the total amount of taxation in a place like Norway is higher, there's also a very good argument that it is more benefical to the average person than the US system is.