In SvD, Henrik Dalgard raises important points about how a culture of adaptation and lowered requirements in teaching affect students and pupils. But it is crucial to place the problem in a larger context. The deteriorating results in school and students' reduced ability to write and analyze is not an isolated phenomenon. They are consequences of…
Category: Status
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…
Sustainable working methods provide good working conditions
The above may seem like a tautology. For decades, workplaces have had less resources for staff and greater demands on work effort per employee. Then many may be attracted by the fact that a certain workplace or professional category has good working conditions. Then they find themselves there and work hard or harder to push their way into the old group....
The citizens are against the middle and working class
Citizens suspended talks on how to speed up housing construction again because the red-greens protected the interests of the people and refused to agree to market rents. Market rents that not many people would be able to afford would lead to a chain of migration from better housing to worse, where those who lived in the worst housing would become homeless. In addition…
The line of work creates a pernicious economy
The line of work can be constructive. We must support ourselves as much as possible. In part this is good, it can also be disastrous for the economy. Workers need companies to work for. Companies need consumers. If everyone were happy and healthy, companies wouldn't sell very many of the big sellers fast food, candy, tobacco, drugs, guns, alcohol, sex, confectionery……
The Alliance for Unfreedom and Class Society
Earlier I wrote that Hjalmar Branting said in the newspaper Stormklockan in 1912 that he wanted to work for a Sweden where everyone could strive for "the yearning of their best moods". I have also said that Reinfeldt with the anti-reforms he introduced in 2006-2014 wanted to create a society where we would strive for the nightmares of our worst moods….
Cause or consequence
It's not the beggars' fault that 80 people own half of the world's wealth. Turn the protests where they belong. Read more here!
The endless hierarchies of power are unhappiness
Most of us live in a hierarchical system with infinite levels. In these, we are easily made unhappy by those who have a little more status than ourselves.