During WWII, Sweden did allow for a few things in favour of Germany, to avoid being occupied. But we also turned a blind eye to activities performed by Norwegian resistance forces at our borders, we trained Norwegian soldiers within our borders and we took in the majority of all the Danish jews as refugees when they fled the Nazi occupation of Denmark. Our neutrality now has ended and we’re members of NATO, thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I live in the Southwest of Sweden. We don’t get much snow. Maybe for a day or two, if we’re lucky a couple of weeks, but rarely enough to go skiing or something.
Sweden also helped Finland immensely when it was being invaded by the Soviet union. Sweden took in tons of Finnish children to keep them safe, and sent 9000 volunteer troops, together with weapons and aircraft to fight on the Finnish side.
When the Finns asked the swedish goverment for military equipment it took 3hours to make a decision i don't think our goverment have ever reacted that fast transferred approximately 1/3 of its equipment to Finland, among them 135,000 rifles and 330 guns and large quantities of ammunition. Also one third of all the Swedish Air Force's fighters at that time. Aswell as Volunteer pilots and mechanics and also the Swedish Volunteer Corps was numbered 9,640 officers and men. There was also a volunteer work force of about 900 workers and engineers By the end of the war, the Volunteer Corps was composed of 8,260 Swedes, plus 725 Norwegians, and 600 Danes. They demonstrated a strong Nordic unity that was symbolized in their four brother hands insignia which represented Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
Direct wartime imports from Sweden during WWII provided about 15% of all British ball bearings. Blockade-running ships and airplanes were employed to maintain the British imports from Sweden. This trade was an overt choice by the Swedish government to aid the Allied war effort without German consent
@@Henrik46 And Norwegians. And well, the Saxons would have spoken a germanic language very similar to the vikings anyway, close enough that they could mostly understand each other.
The main reason why Germany invaded Denmark and Norway in WWII, was to ensure the transports of iron ore from Sweden. The ore is shipped by train to Narvik in Northern Norway and then by ship to the world. Sweden threatened to blow up the iron ore mine if Sweden was invaded, but that is not the only reason why Germany didn't invade Sweden.
Yeah, it would have not been easy for the Germans to force Swedes to operate the mines, and they knew the production would have been a fraction compared to "just buy it and pay later".
SEK 10 is the equivalent of $1, therefore they would look at SEK 10 the way we would look at $1 The equivalent of a $10 bill would be a SEK 100 banknote, the equivalent of a $100 bill would be a SEK 1000 banknote, etc
I've watched several videos of Americans and Canadians comparing grocery prices, and were surprised about how much cheaper Sweden was compared to back home. But it all depends on what kind of products. Anyways, the notion that Sweden is expensive is a bit, lets say, dated. SEK10/$1 will get you a bag of candy, an ice cream, or a hot dog. (Could cost you more, it depends on where you go, as always)
Sweden also supplied the allies with lots of information during ww2. We had our own codebreaking team who breaked the machine used before the enigma machine, and we could tap into signals send to finland via sweden, and supply that to the allies.
I think several countries that wanted to be neutral or against Germany in WW2 were given very little choice. Remember that the atrocities didn’t happen over night and often you realized too late what actually happened. The nazi put out propaganda about kids playing and having fun in concetration camps for example, or made the jugend training camps seemed like fun summer camps for kids. The nazis got hold of the economy so merchants/traders were basically forced to build for them and the mail and media were censored. So sometimes we can be harsh on ppl who helped Germany during this time but it was very complicated.
4:40 Revolution 1523, Oldest constitution in the world (yes amended, but so is the American ;)), Oldest standing army regiment, King's Guard (Livgardet), later the oldest law on free speech in print. Sweden has 2 fundamental laws on the freedom of expression, 1 is for speech the second (stronger) is writing/publishing etc. It is older. Even if politicians think you can't speak, write it.
"All one big happy family" HAHAHA. From the Viking age (ca 800) until the Napoleonic wars at the start of the 1800s, Sweden and Denmark have had about 44 wars. Yes. We're... very, VERY much a family. You could even say we love each other like siblings. Now that we're older, it's a case of "I get to make fun of you... but so help anyone outside the family if they do". Sweden has had fewer wars with Russia (about 14?). Even if you account for the wars with the Republic of Novgorod before it was Russia (around 38 conflicts together?), wars with Denmark still win out. Nothing beats family, I guess. I will add, about the climate... we don't get white Christmases anymore (in Stockholm/the blue band). We used to. But winter comes (and stays) later now. There's the climate change in action. If the first snow falls in November, it will leave before December and you can bet on it not being there, with any staying power, until the New Year's or after. If the first snow falls in December, you can hope for the cold temperature to remain stable enough throughout the month to give us a white holiday.
Today I bought a package of Ahlgrens bilar for 10 SEK, but it was a special offer 😆 In July this year I bough cucumber for 8,90 SEK a piece but that was then . . . .
With 10.23 SEK you can almost buy a cheeseburger at McDonalds. I have never been more upset about anything money related than when McDonalds raised the price of a cheeseburger from 10 SEK to like 15... Makes you question those in power big time
The temperature range in middle Sweden is way off. The chart says about 22.5 degrees Celsius at most, which is not the case. It reaches well over 30 at times. I guess these are average temperatures though, that's strange, since they use range bars..
Swede in TN here,after getting a bag of salted wavy Ruffles at my local Kroger that cost of $7.49!🙈! I kinda feel that the US surpassed Sweden in grocery prices.
Three bags (225 grams or about 8 ounces) of OLW cheese balls or potato chips (275 grams almost 10 ounces) 65 SEK on sale. Ordinary price about 100 SEK.
For 10 SEK you could get either: a coffee, a bun, one bubblegum, cheap toys from machines, or cheap versions of brushes, pencils, erasures and the likes.
You could buy pretty nothing with 1 dollar, 10 SEK (international name for the swedish krona), ok I can buy a hot dog at the local supermaket for that.
for 10 SEK you can buy almost a kilogram of onions, or almost a litre of milk, or....well, there are some candy that you can get. But a Mcdonalds cheeseburge is 20 SEK.
I was in Orlando last year, and most food and drinks was more expensive there than in Sweden. (But bigger portions) But stuff like toys, clothes and other things is most of the time cheaper in America.
They missed a lot of other influences such as rock/metal-bands, max Martin, and stuff like avici. They missed the 44 wars with Denmark... a lot was missed. But overall a pretty good video.
Taxes are on an average around 28-36%. The 50% taxes is if you earn over a certain amount and then you pay 50% only on that part that’s over the the limit.
What was mentioned in the video included VAT etc so all taxes combined and not just the income tax. VAT on products, energy taxes on fuel/electricity, vehicle/road taxes etc.
That's just the base municipality-based income tax. You have to add a ton of other taxes as well like moms(VAT). It's actually higher than 50% even for us average earners if you add it all up.
Those ethnicity statistics are way off. 1/3 of Swedes are first or second-generation immigrants, and Finns are not even the largest immigrant group (that would be Syrians (first) and Iraqis (second). A more realistic estimate would be 65-75 % ethnic Swedes. Large immigrant communities include Middle Easterners (especially Syrians, Syriacs, Afghans, Iraqis, Kurds, and Turks), people from the Balkans (especially Bosnia, also a lot of Serbs), Eastern Europeans (especially Polish), other Northern Europeans (Finns, Danes, Norwegians, Germans), Chileans, Greeks, Thais, Horn of Africa (Somalis and Eritreans), and other Africans (e.g. Gambians). Lately, there's been a large increase in immigration from India, China, and the US.
I'm swedish and regarding your take on temperatur you really don't know what you're talking about. Sometimes when your visiting north of Sweden, you will complain about the heat for shure, aswell as the cold in the South. Videos like this, maybe true to some degree, but you know... really... you can not experiance a country this way...
Yes, the Kievan Rus.. the seed that was apropriated by the Moskovites to become Russia. That was not intended and we are so sorry for it. We apologize to the world!
Taxes are not that high for lower incomes, but marginal tax can reach to about 58 % these days. In the mid 70's, marginal tax reached an insane 102 % (!) which even made the famous author Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) react and sent a letter to the minister of finance. As a national icon, she made the Social Democrats cave in and a conservative government did lower that taxation as they won the election in 1976.
Well, don't forget that VAT (moms) is 20% of everything you buy. So your pay is 100, but ~125 is your actual gross salary. ~30 goes to income tax. Then buy something for the remaining 70, you pay another 14 in VAT. So 14 + 25 + 30 = 69 out of 125 --> a tad more than 50%. That is basically before the progressive income tax rate kicks in.
@@niclash The total tax burden can of course be influenced to a certain extent, depending on what you consume, but it will be more than you dare to analyze ;)
Good question from you. What do we get for a dollar? Depends on where but you might be able to get a candy bar or a can of soda. But not both. and on the can of soda there is a pant (1-2 SEK) that you will get back when you return the can. Also the weather, it is not normal now a days for us in the south to have a white Christmas. Up north yes but most likely not in the south.
Sweden was an pacifist country at the beginning of the war and it became an island surrounded by Nazi Germany on all sides in the blink of an eye. It did manage to mobilize its military during the war though, provide support for the survival of Finnish independence as well as start training the Norwegian and Danish resistance movement on its own soil.
15:03 Now you didn't, but that is ok. The narrator is a Brit / Brit AI? Either way, Malmö = Mal (Spanish) oehh (like uhm but getting sick). Then say it like running water Malmö
@@Graaskaegg They are everywhere... In the US you go to the store and buy something that costs a dollar and you end up paying more to leave the shop... All these discussions normally end up the same - the consumer is losing! Every government is taking what they need to their business... so in one country it´s a tax - in another it´s a fee...
@@thomash3716 Yes, nothing unique for Sweden. "Sociala avgifter" you could argue is a hidden tax as you as employee never see it but the employer have to pay for you. The money could be given as salary and you would add some of to your tax and then save for your retirement, parental leave and a higher amount for insurance.
@@flisan4385 in total, yes, possibly, but sales tax should not be counted on the income to give a comparison between countries. The variation in use of money as a consumer is too big as is variation of sales tax between and in countries.
Great reaction! 🇸🇪 I highly recommend you to dive into the Sami population. The native population of the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. A lot of them in Sweden and Norway are reindeer herders (I'm not sure about those in Finland and Russia). Btw, during the period of the Swedish Empire, around 1600-1700 (began with Lion from the North, Gustav Adolf 2nd😉) Sweden fought wars against Denmark and Russia. I actually come from the southern part that used to belong to Denmark. My home town was founded by Christian 4th of Denmark in 1614. If you want to know more about this period, check out Sabaton History Channel about the Swedish Empire/Carolus Rex. 🤘
@@annicaesplund6613 And not even that, as they're nomads. It's just propaganda from people that don't want white Europeans to be native to anywhere on the planet. We just spawned out of hell or something.
You can buy ten pieces of bubblegum for ten crowns. PS, the average tax rate for a average taxpayer in Sweden is NOT 50%, this is a myth, the average tax rate for a average income is 30% and has been for a Very long time. You need a Very, Very high income to pay a tax of 50%.
That's not how it works. We're actually way above 50% even for the average earner. You can't just ignore moms(VAT) and all the taxes on electricity, gas etc. Well, you can if you want to be ignorant of your money.
@@mothbreeder641 I have never in my life been in a discussion about "average tax you pay" where they've included VAT in the discussion, it's always been specifically income tax. Income tax is also what most people think when they say "people in Sweden pay 50% tax"
For about 10.3kr I can buy a piece of chewing gum or if I go to the Swedish version of walmart/dollar tree I could Maybe buy a nail polish or a hairclip for that Price 🥲🙄
Swedish inventions : Blow tourch - Carl Richard Nyberg Tetra pak - Ruben Rausing Kerosene stoves (Primus) - Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist Steam Turbine - Gustaf De Laval The milk separator - Gustaf de Laval Inkjet and Ultrasound - Helmuth Hertz Artificial Kidney - Nils Alwall Dry Milk - Ninni Kronberg The Celsius temperature scale also comes from a Swedish man named Anders Celsius. The first central bank in the world was Swedish, Founded 1668. And still exist today. Zipper - Gideon Sundbäck Propeller - John Ericsson Adjustable wrench - Johan Petter Johansson Pacemaker - Rune Elmqvist Gauge blocks - Carl Edvard Johansson Vacuum cleaner In 1942, the Swedish paper company Paulistr invented the first disposable diapers. Ball bearing AGA-lighthouse Bluetooth Modern day rollator - Aina Wifalk Mobile phones Color graphics on computers Safety matches GPS Classification of all plants & animals - Carl von Linné The dynamite - Alfred Nobel - Yes the guy who started Nobel Prize Padlocks Spotify Skype Kick sled Laminate flooring Wall bars - Teacher Per Henrik Ling Ring binder Dishcloth - Curt Lindqvist Sincerely Tom.
Hi Sweden is not only ABBA recommend you to react to Top 50 songs written by Swedish songwriters & produsers! (So far) Max Martin The king of pop
You can say that Max Marin is better then ABBA because he is only second to Paul McCartney not The Beatles 😀
During WWII, Sweden did allow for a few things in favour of Germany, to avoid being occupied. But we also turned a blind eye to activities performed by Norwegian resistance forces at our borders, we trained Norwegian soldiers within our borders and we took in the majority of all the Danish jews as refugees when they fled the Nazi occupation of Denmark.
Our neutrality now has ended and we’re members of NATO, thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
I live in the Southwest of Sweden. We don’t get much snow. Maybe for a day or two, if we’re lucky a couple of weeks, but rarely enough to go skiing or something.
Scania is a lot more like mainland Central Europe, climate-wise
@@coyotelong4349I live there 😉
Sweden also helped Finland immensely when it was being invaded by the Soviet union. Sweden took in tons of Finnish children to keep them safe, and sent 9000 volunteer troops, together with weapons and aircraft to fight on the Finnish side.
Swedish naval intelligence also provided the Allies, through the UK, with information on German naval movement during WW2.
When the Finns asked the swedish goverment for military equipment it took 3hours to make a decision i don't think our goverment have ever reacted that fast
transferred approximately 1/3 of its equipment to Finland, among them 135,000 rifles and 330 guns and large quantities of ammunition. Also one third of all the Swedish Air Force's fighters at that time. Aswell as Volunteer pilots and mechanics and also the Swedish Volunteer Corps was numbered 9,640 officers and men. There was also a volunteer work force of about 900 workers and engineers
By the end of the war, the Volunteer Corps was composed of 8,260 Swedes, plus 725 Norwegians, and 600 Danes. They demonstrated a strong Nordic unity that was symbolized in their four brother hands insignia which represented Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
For 10SEK you could get 2 hotdogs from Biltema.
Or 2 cinamon buns at IKEA
1 Piggelin icecream
He failed his research, he forgot Tuesday, Tyr is the god of war in the Asatro, Tuesday is Tyr's day
Direct wartime imports from Sweden during WWII provided about 15% of all British ball bearings. Blockade-running ships and airplanes were employed to maintain the British imports from Sweden. This trade was an overt choice by the Swedish government to aid the Allied war effort without German consent
They forgot Tuesday, which is also named for an aesir god- Tiwaz or Tyr, the god of war.
They also forgot that it was Danish vikings, through the Danelaw conquest, that imbued these words into modern English.
@@Henrik46 And Norwegians.
And well, the Saxons would have spoken a germanic language very similar to the vikings anyway, close enough that they could mostly understand each other.
Well, the Munsöätten/House of Munsö is the first Royal line in Sweden, comes from Björn Järnsida/Ironside
The main reason why Germany invaded Denmark and Norway in WWII, was to ensure the transports of iron ore from Sweden. The ore is shipped by train to Narvik in Northern Norway and then by ship to the world. Sweden threatened to blow up the iron ore mine if Sweden was invaded, but that is not the only reason why Germany didn't invade Sweden.
Yeah, it would have not been easy for the Germans to force Swedes to operate the mines, and they knew the production would have been a fraction compared to "just buy it and pay later".
SEK 10 is the equivalent of $1, therefore they would look at SEK 10 the way we would look at $1
The equivalent of a $10 bill would be a SEK 100 banknote, the equivalent of a $100 bill would be a SEK 1000 banknote, etc
You can go to a public toilet. It can often cost SEK 10.
I've watched several videos of Americans and Canadians comparing grocery prices, and were surprised about how much cheaper Sweden was compared to back home.
But it all depends on what kind of products.
Anyways, the notion that Sweden is expensive is a bit, lets say, dated.
SEK10/$1 will get you a bag of candy, an ice cream, or a hot dog. (Could cost you more, it depends on where you go, as always)
Sweden also supplied the allies with lots of information during ww2. We had our own codebreaking team who breaked the machine used before the enigma machine, and we could tap into signals send to finland via sweden, and supply that to the allies.
It wasn't the machine used before the Enigma as much as it was the more advanced, & none-mobile one.🧐
I think several countries that wanted to be neutral or against Germany in WW2 were given very little choice. Remember that the atrocities didn’t happen over night and often you realized too late what actually happened.
The nazi put out propaganda about kids playing and having fun in concetration camps for example, or made the jugend training camps seemed like fun summer camps for kids.
The nazis got hold of the economy so merchants/traders were basically forced to build for them and the mail and media were censored.
So sometimes we can be harsh on ppl who helped Germany during this time but it was very complicated.
4:40 Revolution 1523, Oldest constitution in the world (yes amended, but so is the American ;)), Oldest standing army regiment, King's Guard (Livgardet), later the oldest law on free speech in print. Sweden has 2 fundamental laws on the freedom of expression, 1 is for speech the second (stronger) is writing/publishing etc. It is older. Even if politicians think you can't speak, write it.
Would say normal temperute span is a lot larger than shown
To Daniel you have many metal bands from sweden plus you also have the sweden rock festival plus sabaton Open air festival as well / with love
Hey is this ur home land
@@alibennett78 yes it is
@@nightkissg6520 lovely are u in elmo brothers or cousin area that is malmö
@@alibennett78 nope im in a city called linkoping or Linköping in swedish
@@nightkissg6520 aw ok lovely
tbh swedes aren't happy, they're content
"All one big happy family"
HAHAHA. From the Viking age (ca 800) until the Napoleonic wars at the start of the 1800s, Sweden and Denmark have had about 44 wars. Yes. We're... very, VERY much a family. You could even say we love each other like siblings. Now that we're older, it's a case of "I get to make fun of you... but so help anyone outside the family if they do". Sweden has had fewer wars with Russia (about 14?). Even if you account for the wars with the Republic of Novgorod before it was Russia (around 38 conflicts together?), wars with Denmark still win out. Nothing beats family, I guess.
I will add, about the climate... we don't get white Christmases anymore (in Stockholm/the blue band). We used to. But winter comes (and stays) later now. There's the climate change in action. If the first snow falls in November, it will leave before December and you can bet on it not being there, with any staying power, until the New Year's or after. If the first snow falls in December, you can hope for the cold temperature to remain stable enough throughout the month to give us a white holiday.
Stockholm arkiplag has över 30.000 Island and
Sweden about 300.000 Most in the world and 100.000 Lakers
I like it !
Anders Sweden Gothenburg
Avicii ts from Sweden is❤
There are a few good videos on Swedish history if you're interested. There was quite a lot of action here historically.
with 10.23 SEK, I can almost buy two plastic bags from my local food store!
You can buy a espresso for 10 SEK at some coffe places. But its getting more and more rare. Most espressos cost a minimum of 18 SEK now
1$ could buy you a can of coke (in certain shops), you used to be able to buy a cheeseburger at McD for 1$, but now it cost about 1,8$
Conversion Rate is more like 11-12SEK/USD now.
Today I bought a package of Ahlgrens bilar for 10 SEK, but it was a special offer 😆 In July this year I bough cucumber for 8,90 SEK a piece but that was then . . . .
With 10.23 SEK you can almost buy a cheeseburger at McDonalds. I have never been more upset about anything money related than when McDonalds raised the price of a cheeseburger from 10 SEK to like 15... Makes you question those in power big time
19:14 - Husqvarna ^^
Nice video! Your pronunciation of Malmö is very good.
No it wasn't. Not even people in Stockholm can pronounce Malmööe properly ;-) Heck, people in Scania don't agree on pronunciation....
@@niclash Scania-speakers can't pronounce anything right, that's why we can hear it's Scanian. 😂
Also we dont pay 50% tax unless you earn A LOT of money. Most average people pay 25-30%
Welcome to Sweden 🇸🇪
Well, Sweden helped the allies aswell during the second world war.
And now the "allies" send millions of "refugeees" to Sweden to say thank you.
The temperature range in middle Sweden is way off. The chart says about 22.5 degrees Celsius at most, which is not the case. It reaches well over 30 at times. I guess these are average temperatures though, that's strange, since they use range bars..
Swede in TN here,after getting a bag of salted wavy Ruffles at my local Kroger that cost of $7.49!🙈! I kinda feel that the US surpassed Sweden in grocery prices.
Three bags (225 grams or about 8 ounces) of OLW cheese balls or potato chips (275 grams almost 10 ounces) 65 SEK on sale. Ordinary price about 100 SEK.
@@goranberggren5874 Ja har slutat med Macdonalds index,kör bara chips index nu förtiden haha.70-80 Sek för en påse här e sjukt
@@anderswiik7432Det lät väldigt dyrt. En maxi påse ostbollar på typ 400 gram brukar kosta 40-45 SEK på Ö&B eller Rusta.
For 10 SEK you could get either: a coffee, a bun, one bubblegum, cheap toys from machines, or cheap versions of brushes, pencils, erasures and the likes.
Ok, so for the 10 SEK: A Big Mac costs 45 SEK.
Would that be useful for the boys? 😊
You will get about 700 liter high quality tap water for 10 sek (the treatment of 700 liter wastewater is included)
You could buy pretty nothing with 1 dollar, 10 SEK (international name for the swedish krona), ok I can buy a hot dog at the local supermaket for that.
You can buy 2 hotdogs at Biltema!
@@zpitzer you forgot biltema where you can buy a hotdog or a cup of Coffee for 10sek
@@larubialocatattoo8430 👍 I bought one the other day 🤣
Got the biggest scale solar system throughout the country.
Göteborg ar not Goteborg.
for 10 SEK you can buy almost a kilogram of onions, or almost a litre of milk, or....well, there are some candy that you can get. But a Mcdonalds cheeseburge is 20 SEK.
I was in Orlando last year, and most food and drinks was more expensive there than in Sweden. (But bigger portions) But stuff like toys, clothes and other things is most of the time cheaper in America.
They missed a lot of other influences such as rock/metal-bands, max Martin, and stuff like avici.
They missed the 44 wars with Denmark... a lot was missed. But overall a pretty good video.
$ 1 buys you 2x hotdogs at Biltema and IKEA, they are waiting for their 5th michelin star.
Taxes are on an average around 28-36%. The 50% taxes is if you earn over a certain amount and then you pay 50% only on that part that’s over the the limit.
What was mentioned in the video included VAT etc so all taxes combined and not just the income tax.
VAT on products, energy taxes on fuel/electricity, vehicle/road taxes etc.
That's just the base municipality-based income tax. You have to add a ton of other taxes as well like moms(VAT). It's actually higher than 50% even for us average earners if you add it all up.
One dollar equals one can of soda
Those ethnicity statistics are way off. 1/3 of Swedes are first or second-generation immigrants, and Finns are not even the largest immigrant group (that would be Syrians (first) and Iraqis (second). A more realistic estimate would be 65-75 % ethnic Swedes. Large immigrant communities include Middle Easterners (especially Syrians, Syriacs, Afghans, Iraqis, Kurds, and Turks), people from the Balkans (especially Bosnia, also a lot of Serbs), Eastern Europeans (especially Polish), other Northern Europeans (Finns, Danes, Norwegians, Germans), Chileans, Greeks, Thais, Horn of Africa (Somalis and Eritreans), and other Africans (e.g. Gambians). Lately, there's been a large increase in immigration from India, China, and the US.
Here in sweden, you get little over 0.5L gas for 10 SEK (i think 0.5L is like 1/8th of us gallon-ish)
Weren't Swedish vikings on US soil before the US xD
I'm swedish and regarding your take on temperatur you really don't know what you're talking about. Sometimes when your visiting north of Sweden, you will complain about the heat for shure, aswell as the cold in the South. Videos like this, maybe true to some degree, but you know... really... you can not experiance a country this way...
The high moisture content in the air is a "killer" when it's cold in Malmö. 🥶
Air is very dry in the north!
Yes, the Kievan Rus.. the seed that was apropriated by the Moskovites to become Russia. That was not intended and we are so sorry for it. We apologize to the world!
Taxes are not that high for lower incomes, but marginal tax can reach to about 58 % these days. In the mid 70's, marginal tax reached an insane 102 % (!) which even made the famous author Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) react and sent a letter to the minister of finance. As a national icon, she made the Social Democrats cave in and a conservative government did lower that taxation as they won the election in 1976.
Well, don't forget that VAT (moms) is 20% of everything you buy. So your pay is 100, but ~125 is your actual gross salary. ~30 goes to income tax. Then buy something for the remaining 70, you pay another 14 in VAT. So 14 + 25 + 30 = 69 out of 125 --> a tad more than 50%. That is basically before the progressive income tax rate kicks in.
@@niclash The total tax burden can of course be influenced to a certain extent, depending on what you consume, but it will be more than you dare to analyze ;)
Good question from you. What do we get for a dollar? Depends on where but you might be able to get a candy bar or a can of soda. But not both. and on the can of soda there is a pant (1-2 SEK) that you will get back when you return the can.
Also the weather, it is not normal now a days for us in the south to have a white Christmas. Up north yes but most likely not in the south.
10 kronor? ... A piece of candy?
a beer at a cheap pub is like 55kr
1/3 piece of loaf = 10SEK
You can get a pretty nice cupcake for 10 SEK. Or a 33cl can of Coke.
Sweden was an pacifist country at the beginning of the war and it became an island surrounded by Nazi Germany on all sides in the blink of an eye.
It did manage to mobilize its military during the war though, provide support for the survival of Finnish independence as well as start training the Norwegian and Danish resistance movement on its own soil.
Welcome to sesame street hi im oscar the grinch and hi im elmo this is my brother malmö
Haha, it's definitely a stretch, but you could say that Sweden founded what became Russia.
15:03 Now you didn't, but that is ok. The narrator is a Brit / Brit AI? Either way, Malmö = Mal (Spanish) oehh (like uhm but getting sick). Then say it like running water Malmö
And quick
Even inside Sweden, the running joke about naive and ignorant people is: Don't be so blue-eyed, or just dumb blonde.
Please dont blame us for russia. We just didnt knew what we where doing. 😜😉
No 50% tax... I'm a well paid full time working teacher, with a 36% tax/ month. And I'm swedish duh... this video... I tell you 😡
Not pure income tax for most people, but there are many other forms of tax. (Moms, sociala avgifter m.m.)
@@Graaskaegg They are everywhere... In the US you go to the store and buy something that costs a dollar and you end up paying more to leave the shop... All these discussions normally end up the same - the consumer is losing! Every government is taking what they need to their business... so in one country it´s a tax - in another it´s a fee...
@@thomash3716 Yes, nothing unique for Sweden. "Sociala avgifter" you could argue is a hidden tax as you as employee never see it but the employer have to pay for you. The money could be given as salary and you would add some of to your tax and then save for your retirement, parental leave and a higher amount for insurance.
If you add up sales tax and sales taxes (moms, sociala avgifter and so on) its acctually around 70%, if you have a income tax of 33% so....
@@flisan4385 in total, yes, possibly, but sales tax should not be counted on the income to give a comparison between countries.
The variation in use of money as a consumer is too big as is variation of sales tax between and in countries.
you could buy a basic hamburger at McDonalds for 10sek
Probably a can of soda
10 kr will buy you junk at the $ dollar store. Maybe a cheap postcard.
Great reaction! 🇸🇪 I highly recommend you to dive into the Sami population. The native population of the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. A lot of them in Sweden and Norway are reindeer herders (I'm not sure about those in Finland and Russia).
Btw, during the period of the Swedish Empire, around 1600-1700 (began with Lion from the North, Gustav Adolf 2nd😉) Sweden fought wars against Denmark and Russia. I actually come from the southern part that used to belong to Denmark. My home town was founded by Christian 4th of Denmark in 1614. If you want to know more about this period, check out Sabaton History Channel about the Swedish Empire/Carolus Rex. 🤘
The Sami population came after the population in the south. So indiginous to the north only.
@@annicaesplund6613 And not even that, as they're nomads. It's just propaganda from people that don't want white Europeans to be native to anywhere on the planet. We just spawned out of hell or something.
@@annicaesplund6613 That´s true.
why do you think russia/ukraine have so many females that look swedish? :P
You can buy ten pieces of bubblegum for ten crowns.
PS, the average tax rate for a average taxpayer in Sweden is NOT 50%, this is a myth, the average tax rate for a average income is 30% and has been for a Very long time. You need a Very, Very high income to pay a tax of 50%.
That's not how it works. We're actually way above 50% even for the average earner. You can't just ignore moms(VAT) and all the taxes on electricity, gas etc. Well, you can if you want to be ignorant of your money.
@@mothbreeder641 I have never in my life been in a discussion about "average tax you pay" where they've included VAT in the discussion, it's always been specifically income tax.
Income tax is also what most people think when they say "people in Sweden pay 50% tax"
@@Mumrik93 to be honest, in the video, the narrator did say they had included VAT and stuff for the average tax rate.
For about 10.3kr I can buy a piece of chewing gum or if I go to the Swedish version of walmart/dollar tree I could Maybe buy a nail polish or a hairclip for that Price 🥲🙄
The list of inventions from Sweden is too long. I cannot write it here.
But pacemaker. Bluetooth. Seatbelts are some great ones.
Swedish inventions :
Blow tourch - Carl Richard Nyberg
Tetra pak - Ruben Rausing
Kerosene stoves (Primus) - Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist
Steam Turbine - Gustaf De Laval
The milk separator - Gustaf de Laval
Inkjet and Ultrasound - Helmuth Hertz
Artificial Kidney - Nils Alwall
Dry Milk - Ninni Kronberg
The Celsius temperature scale also comes from a Swedish man named Anders Celsius.
The first central bank in the world was Swedish, Founded 1668. And still exist today.
Zipper - Gideon Sundbäck
Propeller - John Ericsson
Adjustable wrench - Johan Petter Johansson
Pacemaker - Rune Elmqvist
Gauge blocks - Carl Edvard Johansson
Vacuum cleaner
In 1942, the Swedish paper company Paulistr invented the first disposable diapers.
Ball bearing
AGA-lighthouse
Bluetooth
Modern day rollator - Aina Wifalk
Mobile phones
Color graphics on computers
Safety matches
GPS
Classification of all plants & animals - Carl von Linné
The dynamite - Alfred Nobel - Yes the guy who started Nobel Prize
Padlocks
Spotify
Skype
Kick sled
Laminate flooring
Wall bars - Teacher Per Henrik Ling
Ring binder
Dishcloth - Curt Lindqvist
Sincerely Tom.
Not seatbelts, only 3-point seatbelts.
@@bofomalsi4146 3-point seatbelts you live. 2-point seatbelts you die. So fc of m8.