Erik is a good writer, especially to discover some of the ins and outs about Scandinavia, and he has a good perspective on the USA, too.
When comparing nations, there will always be areas where one nation is not as beneficial for one specific group than the other nation. But this approach is also shallow in nature.
Let me say again, Henryk, that each nation has to look at itself and see where it can improve its own functioning.
The Scandinavian countries made what I would call a mistake, but that is my purview, to establish high wages for workers, not considering their age.
From an economic perspective, they overvalued wages for young people, and too much emphasis is therefore delivered on getting a job when young. Young people are economically too expensive to hire, so there are fewer jobs for them. Being well connected, having the right kind of education, and other social reasons can land a young person in a job and making real good wages right away. That person is then stuck in that job, while also occupying that position.
The problem is of course tremendously affecting those not being able to get into a job. Fewer jobs are available for the young, and without much experience and without the right connections, they can't get a job.
What the Danes and Swedes did not do right was to understand the full working of the socioeconomic implications of their decisions. They made a decision in which they thought they did the right thing, not understanding they did the right thing to the extreme, hurting a large number of young Danes and Swedes.
This is where the Danish and Swedish mirror is not functioning well.
Meanwhile, when these young Danes come to the US, they immediately have much better education and behavior than the average young US person, so they will be in demand immediately and can compete not only for jobs but for better paying jobs.
Next, we need to compare a similar group, but then in the US, and we see a much larger group of young individuals who end up in poverty because they did not receive good education and they are working jobs where they are paid minimum wages that makes little impact toward improving their lives. A good number of them ends up living a life of crime.
Comparing the same two groups in both nations, we know what nation is the better nation. Even if Denmark were to have looser rules and regulations, then these youngsters from the USA have nothing to offer Danish society if they were already able to go over there. Young Statelings, in the same tier of society as the tier the young Danes are in, cannot afford the plane ride to get to Denmark. They also have nothing to offer Denmark. They are worse off than Danes that can escape their nation with their good education and behavior.
