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...
Category: Labor market education
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…
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...
Harder to survive as unemployed
The government, together with the Sweden Democrats, will put forward a proposal for a new social security fund where income, and not the time worked, should be the basis for the insurance. The government calls it "the biggest reform of Swedish unemployment insurance in 40 years". The proposal is met with mixed reactions. LO calls it a "disaster" and says it is unfair and...
Visitation zones instead of competitiveness
In visitation zones, the police must be able to stop and search people without having a specific suspicion of crime. The idea is that it will make the streets safer, but many are against it. Critics believe that it can lead to abuse and violations of people's rights. This is especially true if it is used against certain groups based on skin color…
Physical meeting places that create positive emotions make sense
Our society's bourgeois line of work limits the social freedom of movement of those who lack paid work and are not old-age pensioners. At the same time, working life is so inhumane that people lose their ethics there. At the same time, people have very little energy left for organized activity after work. As Durkheim wrote, we become human in the encounter with other human beings. But about these meetings…
Work for all provides a more stable, state-regulated mixed economy
Work for all is the goal society must have. Brilliant text on the benefits of full employment and its positive side effects. Niklas Blomqvist questions the idea that the market itself can create full employment. For example, Blomqvist points out that attempts to follow this path in the last thirty years have not produced the desired results. He emphasizes that work for…
S new social analysis a flop
S's new social analysis is for immigration but is it and everything else it is in a way that is most repressive. The class analysis and the workers' needs are absent. S is the big red-green society-supporting party. It must abandon the idea of "saving-in-the-barns". This austerity goal is only focused on subsidizing the wealth of the very few at the expense of…
More multi-disabled people to the assembly line
Our multi-disabled people must lift heavy and fast Our multi-disabled people must have hard jobs. The contributions that are automatically calculated concern the disabled. Kristersson wants to tighten the subsidies by lowering the automatic calculation in the event of inflation. The government, the Liberals and SD want to lower the social security fund every 100 days until it reaches a bottom level of SEK 365/day. The government claims with…
The truth about immigration
A conservative view is that a country can either have a sustainable welfare state or high levels of immigration. But that view is wrong. The fact is that we can achieve both a well-functioning welfare state and increased immigration. By using progressive taxes and government deficits to invest in making everyone in society feel good…