Anecdotally, I see the situation in France (I'm from there). Unemployment is always high.
People have great healthcare, but they are still struggling with mininum income service jobs. They won't be ruined by a cancer diagnosis though.
I don't think any western countries has figured out how to expand the middle class in recent
times without heavy subsidies (in the US, we are effectively subsidizing those jobs with our high costs)
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Anecdotally, I see the situation in France (I'm from there). Unemployment is always high.
People have great healthcare, but they are still struggling with mininum income service jobs. They won't be ruined by a cancer diagnosis though.
I don't think any western countries has figured out how to expand the middle class in recent times without heavy subsidies (in the US, we are effectively subsidizing those jobs with our high costs)