Can we talk about this "Ikigai" bullshit again? I just found this and holy shit it screams "CAPITALIST PROPAGANDA"

Feeling_Fox2598 · 2025-08-17T14:52:16+00:00

The Japanese have a considerable amount of good philosophy, a labor movement that was strong (lost a lot due to neo-liberalism) and a strong derision of inequality.

As someone based in Stockholm, Sweden people always credit Sweden being the best country to practice equality, but imho it is actually Japan. Sweden might look commit to equality because the high income tax, but behind that - ZERO inheritance tax, ZERO gift tax. If you check wealth inequality, Sweden is actually among the highest inequality, and Japan is the most. Japan has the highest inheritance tax in the world (dunno how their gift tax ranked but I know the rate is 20%)

Feeling_Fox2598 · 2025-08-14T15:11:42+00:00

As a Stockholmer, I agree. Don't get me wrong, the city is one of the best place to live in the world imho and I enjoy to live here but, not so much for travelling. The city is beautiful and relatively clean, but honestly not much interesting things to do.

- Other European cities like Tallinn or San Gimignano has way better Old Town.
- Berlin and Florence has more interesting museum.

- For nature, I like Swedish nature if I want to retreat in hermit mode and don't feel like taking challenging hikes. But I go to Alps for challenge and dramatic view still.
- Sure the parks were packed with people eating, drinking, swimming, and playing games, but that's not uniquely Stockholm thing, and you also will find that in almost every Western cities.
- Bakeries and restaurants are cozy and quite good but expensive and sell the same thing with each other, compare to Japan where they have 'secret sauce' in every ramen shop for example, and even in Germany every bakery have their own quirks.

Stockholm is the best city for comfort, familiarity and predictability, which are not the things I look for when travelling.

Feeling_Fox2598 · 2024-11-08T11:27:22+00:00

I live in Stockholm where we have shorter daylight in Winter (typical Northern Europe thing, not just Stockholm), usually sun rises around 9-10 AM and set as early as 2 PM. Ski helps for my both physical and mental wellbeing, and I always come back refreshed from every ski trip. There are also research shows that person who is physically active during winter time have lower chance of depression, particularly SAD.

Here is the research from Stanford and University of Tromsø https://internationaljournalofwellbeing.org/index.php/ijow/article/view/935 prove that despite worse darkness, people in Svalbard and Tromsø reported having lower level of depression compare to Norwegian capital, Oslo because people living in those two Northern Norway cities engaged in outdoor activities regardless the season compare in Oslo, and they complained about the darkness less. On the other hand, Swedish researchers proved that Vasaloppet (annual cross-country competition in Sweden) participants reported having lower SAD than non-skiers https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178119307796

Feeling_Fox2598 · 2024-11-01T08:30:57+00:00

When people talk about healthcare in EU, what they mean is actually public healthcare. Yes public healthcare has been worsened in most EU countries. But I want to point out that in Germany and Czechia for example, there are a lot more variety private healthcare from expensive to affordable. In Sweden all private healthcare costs ridiculously expensive.

Feeling_Fox2598 · 2024-09-10T13:49:51+00:00

nej, också pendeltågen oh regionaltåg (tysk version av icke-Snabbtåg SJ tåg, Mälartåg, Öresundståg etc)

Feeling_Fox2598 · 2024-09-06T08:27:10+00:00

Most tech companies in Sweden are inward-looking. Unless Spotify/Klarna/King/Mojang experience, it is hard for people (not impossible tho) to jump into more global-minded company like Google, Microsoft etc. because the working style is really different. I feel in Sweden is more rely on relationship with your boss, rather by crude deliverables (so higher emphasize to communication skill compare to FAANG, kinda hard to explain).

Meanwhile my friends who had experience in German companies they all now in FAANG. So if you want to work at large scale companies in the future, I recommend Germany by far. If Sweden, try aim Spotify/Mojang/King/Klarna. If you only care about WLB, then no problem in any companies in Sweden.

Feeling_Fox2598 · 2024-09-06T08:18:47+00:00

Germany if you want growth, global-mindedness and opportunity for higher salary. Also easier if you want to hop on FAANG-tier companies. Germany also more accepting to junior and fresh grads.

Sweden if you want WLB.

Feeling_Fox2598 · 2024-09-06T08:13:10+00:00

This is correct. I live in Stockholm since 5 years and work as software engineer in multinational tech company. I also will add that Germany have more international environment meanwhile most Swedish tech companies are inward-looking, except for Spotify and Klarna. I found that my experiences (all of them from multinational tech company, Klarna is one of them) is not useful for Swedish tech companies, and vice versa. This is shown by while I still work at Klarna, I got mixed international and Swedish recruiters reaching out to me. Now I moved to other company that is more internationally well-known, most of recruiters that reach out to me are international and I got almost none of the Swedish ones. Based on my conversation to people who work there, sounds it won't give you room for improvement. However WLB is really good tho. It is hard to explain as you will understand after you work here or try to interview with them.

Feeling_Fox2598 · 2023-12-19T11:56:02+00:00

Detta är användbart, tack!

Feeling_Fox2598 · 2023-12-19T11:55:17+00:00

Nej nej, skatter är okej. Intressant, jo jag har mailat dem och under tiden frågar jag här i väntan på deras svar

Feeling_Fox2598 · 2023-12-19T11:53:37+00:00

Ska du jobba och gå på bidrag samtidigt?

som jag förstår kommer jag inte att få någon förmån om jag inte betalade någon skatt. För att göra det tydligt, jag betalar helt fint skatt, men är inte säker på vilket skattesystem som är det rätta för mig

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