I've said it before and I'll say it again. It is a right-wing myth that the unemployed, those on sick leave and welfare recipients only parasitize those who work. A generous social insurance system and a generous social security fund etc prevent the conditions in working life from becoming as bad as possible and keep wages up. Had people been left to their own devices...
Month: January 2009
Keynes owns!
Stay on top all the time sick!
Capitalism's demand that individuals perform at their peak all the time, even under pressure, is sick. We humans are fallible creatures who need a society that allows us to not be perfect all the time.
The right's concern for crime victims is paradoxical
The right wants us to care more about the victim than the perpetrator. At the same time, the right has built a working life that 40 hours a week or more in many cases is a crime against the people of Sweden. The conclusion is that the right does not care that people should not behave badly towards each other. They just want to…
Globalization has consequences
Globalization has led and is leading to Sweden losing jobs en masse. Then you cannot, like the Alliance government, pursue a policy that says there are jobs for everyone. As I see it, there are two options in a situation like this. In one case, you don't invest in jobs for everyone, but compensate...
High salary and profit a form of theft
Some on the right argue that tax is a form of theft. I argue, on the other hand, that high wages and profits are also a form of theft. The high wages and profits are achieved because everyone is not paid as much as the value of what they produced.
This is how bad it gets for many people on sick leave
Healthy competition must be balanced by popular resistance and global solidarity
Competition pushes down wages and prices and raises efficiency and productivity. Unless the people resist through strikes and good bargaining by strong unions and global solidarity, the competition will not end until we have the same conditions as the lowest paid and most exploited workers in China. Today, trade unions need to strengthen their demands for a better working environment and...
Generous unemployment insurance saves competence
It is not good if newly educated people with a long education are forced to take any job, e.g. at McDonalds or the assembly line, just to get out of their unemployment. Then they risk not being able to look for a job in their spare time and they will soon forget about the knowledge they have acquired. If…
Generous social security benefits good for the working environment
If you know that in case of unemployment you have to look for any job, in other words the worst possible job as it is easier to get them, then you will accept deterioration in the working conditions at your own workplace. You then know that unemployment is very likely to lead to an even worse job. Because the working conditions…