Dope Things Sweden's Billionaires Should Spend Their Money On
Sweden has more billionaires than almost anybody. Here's how they should spend those fat kronor stacks.
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Slate’s Matt Yglesias recently reported that Sweden has more billionaires per capita than almost any other industrial power. Our Nordic friends have a higher concentration of the uber-rich than the United States and outpace pretty much every country that isn’t a tax shelter island state in terms of billionaire residents. The article, which questions which environments are actually best for producing wealth, left us with many questions. What is creating all of these billionaires? Could the U.S. learn a thing or two from Swedish economic policy? Could we handle the cold were we to move there for the women and free healthcare? And, of course, our biggest question: what are all these billionaires spending all of their money on? Of course, we have some suggestions.
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An over the top Nobel Prize award show
Clone more Skarsgårds (for the ladies)
Pay Swedish House Mafia to disband.
Teach the world how to pronounce the word "fjord."
Remind the world who really discovered America.
Increase paternity/maternity leave from 15 months to two years to make the U.S. look even worse.
Educate Tea Partiers on the benefits of socialized medicine.
Organize an ABBA reunion.
Give the last remaining teenage girl who hasn't read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a free copy.
Make downloading Game of Thrones from Pirate Bay even easier. (Swedes Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij founded The Pirate Bay in 2003.)
Make IKEA furniture even more difficult to assemble.
Introduce the world to Swedish cuisine. (Yes, it exists outside of IKEA.)
Take more vacations (because five weeks a year isn't enough).
Help the rest of the world understand Bergman films.
Pay a politician to lower Sweden's taxes. It's currently up to 60% of Swedes incomes.
Import better vodka to college parties.
Find a new culinary native son.
Force H&M to make clothes that don't run small.
Rename "Stockholm Syndrome" "Oslo Syndrome."
Increase Sweden's most beloved export.
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