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Month: October 2013
Free schools rat out unprofitable students
Assignment review showed yesterday 2013-10-30 that independent schools reject students with bad grades, ADHD, foreign background, fondness for rap music or who in other ways deviated from the model, white, healthy, quiet and high-achieving. The school must equalize class differences and other inequalities, not reinforce them. But did anyone think that independent schools actually did things any other way? Profit interest corrupts…
No woman, no drive
Private property not a human right
The development of the distribution of income and wealth has become increasingly unequal. This is due to the controversial idea of private property as a human right. Private ownership should instead be seen as a matter that we can democratically decide on and can redistribute. In Sweden, the richest percentage owns 23% of the national wealth. IN THE U.S…
M change morals when it suits them
Before the 2006 election, the Moderates considered it dishonorable not to count students among the youth unemployment statistics. Now that they haven't managed to get rid of youth unemployment, they blame the responsibility for the issue on the fact that the unemployment rate is raised by everyone who studies. Source
So many people are so incredibly weak
An important difference between right and left is that the right believes that man is strong and becomes stronger by being given freedom of choice and not help. As a leftist, I believe that man is weak alone. If Systembolaget's alcohol monopoly is deregulated, many will reach for the bottle more often. If you remove the security systems, no more will…
It was worse in the Middle Ages…
The 2008 crisis has caused Europe's poor to increase by 75% in number
The 2008 crisis has caused Europe's poor to increase by 75% in number. 43 million in Europe cannot eat their fill every day. The increasing poverty is not only due to the disaster itself, but to the fact that it has been used by right-wing politicians to pursue neoliberal austerity policies, e.g. in Greece and Italy. According to the right-wing economist Milton Friedman, the…