In Skavlan, Henrik Schyffert touches on all the demands that make life difficult in left-wing society. We all live in an unregulated capitalism. There, it is not possible to ever buy any unethically produced product or service. Read more about this problem in The neurotic clean living society. Society is not safe and equal. Many lack the conditions to…
Month: October 2022
How to get people to choose public transport
More people take public transport if the journeys are frequent, even in off-peak hours. I also think trips to local tourist destinations, moving assistance, home delivery of purchases of bulky goods and a certain number of taxi journeys must be included in our public transport. #kollektivtrafik #miljö #journalistik https://www.forskning.se/2022/10/12/det-har-far-fler-att-resa-kollektivt
Trickle-down economics has reached the end of the road
Comedian Jonathan Pie shows with pinpoint brilliance in the video below how Trickle-down economics with his mantra: "Help the rich! Punish the poor!” not working. Trickle-down economics does not build a strong economy nor a strong welfare. Put simply, it leads to a very difficult existence for those who have the least. Even many high achievers…
Normal inflation means both rising prices and wages
The last year's inflation has mostly meant rising prices. Wages and welfare have not kept up. Result: record-breaking cash register at e.g. ICA and many energy companies. Politicians especially within the right but also within the social democratic movement and trade unions contribute. They urge the wage earners not to demand compensation for increased prices. This is because our inflation…
The Swedes and the environmental issue
Do Swedes care about the environment, the climate and biodiversity? #miljö #klimatet #biologiskmångfald #svenskar #opinion #election2022 #journalism https://www.forskning.se/2022/10/18/klimatfragan-forsvann/
We need more rental properties with a good standard and low rent
It must never become the norm to offer rental apartments without either their own shower or toilet. We shall not accept that type of standard development. Rents could also be lower. No thanks, Botrygg. This is how we can afford good, cheap, beautiful and comfortable rental properties for everyone who needs them.
Freedom, equality and good jobs for all are needed if the red-greens are to regain power
Freedom and security mean a lot to the people of Sweden. It is disgusting that welfare becomes ethnically demarcated. We can afford and have an ethical responsibility to have refugee immigration, but it must be done in the right way without economic neoliberalism. But the election and the blue-brown's Tidö agreement show so far that if the red-green are to rule again,...
Economists created austerity policies after World War I to preserve class divisions
New book shows that economists created the policy of austerity to recreate and preserve class divisions after the First World War. The author is Clara Mattei from the Institute for New Economic Thinking. In the video below, Clara discusses her new book "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism". The state had to intervene in the social economy in order to…
How to save equality and the environment/nature all over the world
Global equality and the environment - how do we save these? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that proposes that governments with their own currency have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on desirable sectors of the economy. Sustainably productive investments increase budget space According to MMT, government spending is limited by inflation and not by public debt....