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That's impossible. Said country differs dramatically from the US on almost every meaningful measurement, from population size, density, style of government, cultural history, existing systems, etc.

And it begs the question that said country's system is actually better. In some metrics maybe it is, in others perhaps less so. And there's no reason to believe that US citizens' priorities on that will be the same.



> Said country differs dramatically from the US on almost every meaningful measurement.

Some differencies are relevant, some not. Population density has nothing to do with the regulation re ease or assymetries related to canceling contracts.

I suspect the vast majority of US population would simply want to import the nordic ways of dealing with the discussed topics if there was a bigger discussion on it, as it'll save a lot of frustration/money, while it doesn't seem to unfairly disbenefit companies (for whatever definition of disbenefit). Nordic ISPs are probably doing fairly well (Telia et al).

So, it's a question: why it's so hard or takes so long time to implement things in US, which have no obvious drawbacks and improve quality of people lifes? In the end it's also a representative democracy.

This is HN, saying "we're having this process in country X, and it's clearly worse than in country Y, and the reason is 'culture and history'" might be a technical explanation here, but when it's used as a statement of support, it "does not follow".




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