Power relations between free actors have a lot to do with supply and demand. Whoever has an asset, which someone else is in demand, can make the one with the demand do a lot to get hold of the asset. We worry a lot that when the robots come, we will become their slaves. This is a reasonable…
Month: June 2016
Burnout expensive for society
We need a healthy working life. A working life where we can take care of others and ourselves. That is not the case today. In addition to the human suffering, burnout costs large sums every year. For an employer, it can be up to SEK 400. per person. Does it apply to a middle manager at a larger…
The Liberals' new low-wage jobs debt threat to welfare
When income dispersion is low and everyone earns reasonably well, society is doing well. Everyone can afford to consume and development is moving forward. Since no wages are cut, we all continue to earn a little more each year. The (New) Liberals want to change this. The (New) Liberals propose instead that the spread of income should increase. It is particularly important to set up so…
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Create a global, regulated refugee reception
Right now there are approximately 60 million refugees in the world. If there was a global quota system for how these were distributed, it would be easy for each receiving country to take care of its share of all the world's asylum seekers.
Global aqueduct system could save us from drought and flood
After all, we have built oil pipelines all over the world, so we should be able to afford it. I think we should build a global aqueduct system so that water could be channeled from places with flooding to places with drought.
Large companies and tax planning
Tax is a way to help each other. It is also a way for Sweden's companies to get the social services they so badly need: infrastructure and skills supply. Including. Göteborgs-Posten writes that eight large companies pay almost nothing in corporate tax in Sweden: "Eight of the 20 largest companies in Sweden paid no or very little tax...
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Increasingly quieter in working life
A central part of the Swedish model has become our open work climate. Not least with the Co-Determination Act behind it. In public organisations, we also have freedom of communication. If there are irregularities, we can then go to the media, without risk of reprisals. Now, however, reports from the Union show how working life is becoming increasingly quiet. Gunilla Krieg says in…
The share savers are critical of unreasonable CEO bonuses
High compensation on boards is often linked to various bonus programs. The CEO can have various securities whose value increases or decreases in relation to how the company develops. But often in addition there are various types of advanced schemes for extremely high severance pay. Albin Rännar, head of Aktiespararna's marketing department, tells the magazine Kollega (no. 4, 2016):