The automation and robotization of production in both pure labor occupations and very knowledge-demanding occupations will make the majority redundant on the labor market within 10-15 years, writes a research director at Stanford University. Even doctors will find it difficult to compete qualitatively with medical robots and computers. Already today, computers can write journalistic articles by themselves. I…
Month: July 2014
Reinfeldt and the shortcomings of welfare
Liberal debater: No job, no food
In Svenska Dagbladet, on July 15, 2014, the liberal debater Alice Teodorescu writes that the taxes are too high. Reduced tax gives increased freedom. Claims Alice. Not a word about welfare deteriorating through tax cuts. Nothing new so far. The right has always had such ideas. But. Hold on now. Alice further writes that: "Yes, the...
Why the authorities want a permanent high unemployment rate
Brilliant article by the always so brilliant Dan Josefsson on how the right and S agree on a permanently high level of unemployment to keep inflation down. Also contains information about an economist who considers himself to have support for the claim that an expanded public sector provides such stimulating effects on the economy that taxes can be lowered. http://josefsson.net/artikelarkiv/61-daerfoer-far-arbetsloesheten-aldrig-foersvinna.html My…
Argument for profit in welfare, right?
Attendo protects the profit
Prohibition of profits worsens welfare. Attendo's CEO Ammy Wehlin doesn't mince words: "No one has so far succeeded in explaining how a profit ban would improve welfare."