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: Working conditions
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 For the unemployed: The new reduction in compensation can lead to financial difficulties for the long-term unemployed. These are often disabled or low-educated immigrants. Critics believe that this particularly affects low-paid…
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…
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...
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…
Why are Americans so dissatisfied and Trump-positive despite a good labor market
Why are Americans so unhappy? High costs create dissatisfaction in the US despite positive economic news during the Biden administration according to Robert Reich. Reich was the former Democratic Labor Secretary in the United States Expensive housing, food prices and child care Despite positive economic indications, including growth of 3.3 percent in the last quarter of 2023 and an unemployment rate of 3.7 percent,…
Small changes in more equal societies good for longer, good lives
Research points to five safe ways to influence health and extend life Living long and feeling well until the end is possible, according to research from Olle Melander, professor of internal medicine at Skåne University Hospital. The research, which also includes Melander himself as a "test animal", provides insights into how you can influence your biological aging and prevent age-related...
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…
Communicators work for democracy
In public Sweden, intensive work is underway to balance the budget for next year. We have high inflation and expect recession. A warning is issued against making too large savings by reducing the number of communicators. Politicians and debaters sometimes question the need for these, which is seen as short-term and risky for citizens' participation...