My gut feeling is that a strong tradition (in Sweden, at least) of aversion to the methodological individualism at the core of the EA movement is a major factor behind this.
Methodological individualism is hard (if not outright impossible) to reconcile with the historical materialism that is Karl Marx’s theory of history. The latter seems to be strongly held in many Scandinavian minds.
In short, I think many of the Swedes who care about alleviating poverty will think that the proper way to go about it is through changing the ownership of the means of production, not through increasing cost-effective philanthropy from the affluent.
My gut feeling is that a strong tradition (in Sweden, at least) of aversion to the methodological individualism at the core of the EA movement is a major factor behind this.
Methodological individualism is hard (if not outright impossible) to reconcile with the historical materialism that is Karl Marx’s theory of history. The latter seems to be strongly held in many Scandinavian minds.
In short, I think many of the Swedes who care about alleviating poverty will think that the proper way to go about it is through changing the ownership of the means of production, not through increasing cost-effective philanthropy from the affluent.