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 considered unemployment insurance funded by unemployment insurance funds to be only a last resort . He did not realize that it is very difficult to find a qualified job, for example after an academic degree, while working full-time in a hard, simple job such as on an assembly line or in elderly care. Yet this is what he wanted people to do. They should minimize their unemployment period by constantly challenging their comfort zone by looking for increasingly worse jobs every time they become unemployed.
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 useful professions the only ones we need? System-critical cultural workers make important contributions to not only making life fun and enriching, but also to preserving and strengthening democracy. In order for people, especially from vulnerable socio-economic backgrounds, to dare to apply for these professions, it is of utmost importance to have a generous and tolerant unemployment insurance fund.
But the strict and starvation-like unemployment insurance conditions Reinfeldt introduced were also an attack on the free, system-critical employee and the citizen in general . Who dares to go against a bad work environment and lousy leadership, when the unemployment insurance rules are intended to allow 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 that deteriorating social insurance does and I have already written about these. A reduced unemployment insurance 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.