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…
Category: Deregulations
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...
Inflation is falling in the US and investment is increasing
Inflation fell much earlier in the US compared to Europe and Sweden. The US has abandoned the austerity policy and the save-in-the-barns that Magdalena Andersson and ulf Kristersson like so much. Biden's presidency instead invests in public investments, protecting jobs in the home country and regulating the market. Read more https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-state-of-joe-bidens-union-the More inspiration: The tough wage law…
Inflation peaked in July 2022 in the US but not the interest rate
Inflation in 2022 was due to bottlenecks in production due to the pandemic. The rate hikes did not stop inflation, according to Alan Blinder, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. Since July 2022, the rate of price increases in the United States has decreased. Unemployment is the lowest in 50 years. The rising prices are otherwise due to too little competition between the few dominant market players and too free pricing....
Trickle-down economics has reached the end of the road
Comedian Jonathan Pie shows with pinpoint brilliance in the video below how Trickle-down economics with his mantra: "Help the rich! Punish the poor!” not working. Trickle-down economics does not build a strong economy nor a strong welfare. Put simply, it leads to a very difficult existence for those who have the least. Even many high achievers…
How to save equality and the environment/nature all over the world
Global equality and the environment - how do we save these? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that proposes that governments with their own currency have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on desirable sectors of the economy. Sustainably productive investments increase budget space According to MMT, government spending is limited by inflation and not by public debt....
Post-election analysis: communication, freedom under responsibility and equality
According to Red Justice's post-election analysis, the broad left including the Social Democrats must improve on communication, freedom under responsibility and equality.
Workers must be underpaid, but the poor must not exist
News agency Järva interviews a smart woman – the poet Nattalie Ström Bunpuckdee. Based on her story, we are reminded once again that we live in an Ayn Rand era where ordinary people are a burden and solidarity is the highest evil. The poor must only obey and deliver but deserve no socio-economic conditions and no housing they have...
"Survival" - Book for libertarian left-wing social democracy
Why did welfare in Sweden begin to be dismantled from the 70s? Can everyone get a job? How do we give people housing? The climate - how do we save it? Feel good in a challenging society, okay? The newly published book "Survival - for society and the people" wants to spark discussion about society and life. Read the review by Lars Gahrn,…
Let Sweden learn from Germany and Denmark
Germany and Denmark are fed up with the social problems of high rents and are now introducing various forms of rent regulation. Can't Sweden learn from the experiences of these countries? Can't we refuse to introduce market rents in new production and skip those points in the January agreement?