Now is the time for us to discuss the stress in society. Since 2010, the percentage of sick leave due to severe stress has increased sixfold. Take the discussion into the workplace. With the union. With your protection agent. With the neighbor. With the friend. With the media. It must be under stress now.
Month: February 2019
Together we are strong
It is easy to forget that refrigerators only became standard in apartments in the 1950s. That heating was not included in the rent in some apartments in Gothenburg right up until the 1980s. That we had food rationing in Sweden during the Second World War. To take a few examples. Yes, despite right-wing populism, mass unemployment and environmental crises, much has actually turned out well...
We can afford welfare and good pensions
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The railway's problems are due to too few track workers
There are many reasons for the railway's problems. One is the privatization and competition of train traffic and track maintenance. Trains can be an efficient, punctual, cheap and climate-friendly way of transporting private persons and industrial goods. So it was a long time in Sweden before we saved up on this means of transport. There are many reasons why the trains run so rarely...
The neurotic clean-living society
The neurotic puritanical society breaks us down one by one. Society blames the individual and at the same time idealizes individual care. If the individual behaves, structural problems are assumed to cease, for example if the individual buys organic Swedish meat, the entire environmental problem is assumed to cease. However, the individual who does not buy organic meat is solely responsible for a global environmental disaster. The clean living society…
The Reformists – The way forward for the Social Democrats?
The Social Democrats are a party that has changed. From an emphasis on economic redistribution and a reliable reformism, the party has come to turn its coat to the wind. Admittedly, the formation of the government in the autumn and spring involved a difficult process, but the result leaves much to be desired. The Social Democrats compromised on labor rights, the defense tax and market rents in new production. It is not worthy of a party…
Change your body language two minutes a day for success and well-being
People's weight and well-being increases if they stand wide-legged with their elbows out from the sides and elbows in the side like a superhero or if they crouch together. Winners in wrestling and rock stars often stretch their hands diagonally upwards in each direction and often their legs to the sides as well. Behavioral studies show that such poses increase the weight hormone...