Most Swedes, like their ancestors in the early 1900th century, had been staters (historically exploited underpaid agricultural workers), maids or proletarians (heavily exploited workers in industry with wages that barely cover survival) without #the Social Democrats during the 1900th century.
Now the Moderates under Ulf Kristersson and several bourgeois parties are launching a frontal attack against welfare again.
And before the era of the Social Democrats, we had #market rents. Then there was a constant shortage of #rental properties to maintain demand for apartments that were sanitary nuisances. You didn't have even the right to perpetual contracts on their tenancies, but had to renegotiate regularly. Do I need to add that the apartments were overpriced.
It is #high tax country Sweden as made possible #the class trip for so many and made life immensely better for those who remained workers.
The development can be rolled back with greatly reduced social insurance and contributions. Or #fees at the universities during which the citizens' long-term investigation #The Alliances reign recommended.
The moderates also want to drastically weaken the laws on employment protection, sell the state bank SBAB, which works for nicer housing loans for borrowers, and make the market rent element stronger in newly built rental properties. By and large, C and L support the Moderates' policy.
Without social insurance and benefits, wages and working conditions can be pushed back as much as possible, because without security the workers cannot make any demands at all. Economists call this #the ironclad wage law.
So what have the red-greens done during their government? They have made the unemployment insurance fund more generous and available to more people, removed the stumbling block (the automatic health insurance) in the health insurance (until the blue-browns forced it back in the spring of 2018). The red-greens have lowered the pensioner's tax supplement, increased pensions and housing allowances and strongly started housing construction and caused employment to explode. All with extremely modest tax increases such as of a few hundred mainly for those who earn over 40 a month. They have done all this without a parliamentary majority. Sure, some occasional ndecisions have been wrong, but 000% have been good. Think what the red-greens could do with more mandates!
(And historically, booms usually coincide with red-green government in Sweden and democratic government in the USA. When the right wins in Sweden or the Republicans in the USA, there is usually a recession. Why? well, probably because when the left redistributes society's surplus to low- and middle-income earners, these consume and keep demand for the companies' products and services going.)