Earlier I wrote that Hjalmar Branting said in the newspaper Stormklockan in 1912 that he wanted to work for a Sweden where everyone could strive "the longing of their best moods". I have also said that Reinfeldt, with the anti-reforms he introduced in 2006-2014, wanted to create a society where we would strive for the nightmares of our worst moods. What I did not understand at the time was that this was both an attack on the system-critical cultural worker and on the free-thinking citizen and an attempt to replace class society with a much less socially mobile class society.
Reinfeldt believed that unemployment funded by unemployment insurance was only an extreme emergency solution. He did not realize that it is very difficult to apply for a qualified job, e.g. after an academic degree while working full-time in a hard, simple job such as an assembly line or in elderly care. Yet this was what he wanted to be done. One would minimize one's unemployment time by constantly challenging one's comfort zone with each unemployment occasion looking for increasingly worse jobs.
First of all, this makes it difficult to look for qualified jobs after an academic degree or when the previous academic job has ended. It affects less unemployed economists, doctors, engineers, teachers or nurses or others in more food-useful professions.
But are food useful professions the only ones we need? Cultural workers who are critical of the system make important contributions so that life is not only fun and developing, but also to preserve and strengthen democracy. In order for people, especially from vulnerable socio-economic environments, to dare to apply for these professions, it is of the utmost importance to have a generous and tolerant social security fund.
But the stricter and famine-like unemployment insurance conditions Reinfeldt introduced were also an attack on the free, system-critical employee and the citizen at large. Who dares to go against a bad working environment and lousy leadership, when the unemployment insurance rules aim for as many unemployed people as possible to take as tough and low-paid jobs as possible as quickly as possible.
There are many aspects to everything deteriorating social security does and these I have already written about. A reduced social security fund also makes the worker more inclined to accept constant deterioration in working conditions and wages. If the alternative is starvation, most people accept a lot of pain.