This is often overlooked in the health care debate. If the US paid European prices for health care, the government could give everyone free healthcare without raising taxes at all.
> People settled in them for the ethnic support networks, learned the language, got better jobs and moved out in a few years, always replaced by more immigrants.
>Now, people get stuck. Everyone I talked to named the Swedish real estate market as the reason. It’s almost impossible to rent an apartment in Stockholm or other big urban centers, and few can afford to buy one. Swedish housing prices were up 44 percent last year compared with 2012, and they’ve almost tripled since 2000.
To me this is one of the most interesting parts. How can politicians let home prices triple?
A friend of mine released a game that sold around a million copies in the late 90s or early 2000s sometime and had a deal like that. Except the publisher claimed that after all the distribution and physical costs the profit of the game was 0 and so he never got any money from his profit sharing agreement. Steam and online distribution in general is a godsend.