Reduced social benefits coincide with more mental illness Why do we feel so bad when we are doing so well? The social contribution has fallen behind in value since 1985. Economic decisions have had a profound impact on both social and psychological problems in society. In 1985, according to Bergmark, Å., "The dynamics of social contribution receipt - duration and exits from...
Category: The line of work
How to survive the automation of many jobs
How to survive the AI revolution AI has long influenced the labor market. Some professions risk disappearing, while others become winners. CVkungen has compared data from Platsbanken with the World Economic Forum's report "Future of Jobs 2023". The best way to survive automation is welfare and classic Swedish mixed economy. Expand the public sector when other jobs disappear, reduce working hours, for...
The long-term unemployed and workers receive a tough blow from the new unemployment insurance fund
Devastating for the long-term unemployed On 18 June 2024, the Riksdag decided to implement significant changes in unemployment insurance (a-kassan). Devastating for the long-term unemployed, the disabled, immigrants and many vulnerable professional groups. Save the unemployment fund! Vote here. For the Unemployed: The new reduction in benefits may lead to financial difficulties for the long-term unemployed. These are often disabled or low-educated immigrants. Critics say that…
The Sweden Democrats are not social democrats
The Sweden Democrats and Neoliberalism's Discontent The far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) have emerged as a decisive political force. The Dissatisfaction Party capitalizes on the dissatisfaction that many Swedes feel with neoliberalism. Neoliberalism brings cutbacks, layoffs, market solutions, deregulation and privatization. In recent decades, this has led to widening gaps between rich and poor. Many ordinary citizens have experienced long-term unemployment,…
Tax for poor and rich, early retirement and cheap servants
Tax for poor and rich? What does the right want? The right wants low taxes for the rich so that they can live on the returns from their accumulated and inherited capital from an early age. The right wants high taxes and low wages/remunerations for low income earners to pressure them to become cheap servants of the rich. How does…
The save-in-the-barns make it difficult for the sellers and bankruptcies are increasing
Difficulty for sellers and bankruptcies on the rise It is not only construction workers, employees in schools, health and care, refugees, labor immigrants as well as the unemployed and sick who are affected by the austerity policy of the Tidö government. Bankruptcies are at a record high and increasing. At the same time, one of Sweden's top salespeople tells me that it is difficult for his professional group as well. It's not going well…
Work with good conditions and good wages provides profitability
"One of the most important insights of labor value theory is that what creates economic prosperity is work, not an ever-shrinking national debt. The limit to what the state can do is set by what resources are available. For the social economy, the most important thing is that all available resources (labour, capital, natural resources) are used and used effectively.¹ With this insight, the Social Democrats can leave…
More immigrants work
More immigrant workers also among those from outside Europe. Since the turn of the millennium, the proportion of foreign-born in Sweden has increased from 11 to 20 percent. A significant part of the increase is people born outside Europe. Many of these have had difficulty establishing themselves on the labor market. Since the pandemic, however, employment among the foreign-born has been at a record high. Even though…
Ethics in a brutal time
A newsletter from SubRosa discusses brutalization in our brutal age, I want to highlight that in my opinion that supports Karl Marx in this dilemma. Matter before morality Marx emphasizes matter before morality, while Hegel says that history develops out of a struggle between ideas (often of a moral nature) that ends in the modern state with…
Government: Create more low-wage workers
Tidölaget's strategy is to, after a short time, lower the unemployment fund by 5% every 100 days until it reaches a bottom of SEK 8030 before tax per month. This contrasts with the needs of the long-term unemployed. These are often functionally varied often functionally varied or long-term ill and cannot cope with the low-wage jobs the government advocates to solve...