Peter Wolodarski is rightly concerned in DN about the intolerance towards immigrants and people with different opinions than their own everywhere in Sweden and the West. He rightly thinks it is disgusting how Swedes hate beggars rather than the causes of begging. However, he was pleased that in Marieholm they managed to eradicate begging by offering beggars unskilled jobs with an hourly wage of around 70 SEK per hour.
This may seem like a solution, but low-wage jobs threaten the entire social structure. If an employer can get hold of an underpaid migrant, why should he hire a citizen with a living wage requirement.
One of the hidden purposes of the Alliance's line of work with reduced compensation and insurance was to solve the unemployment created by efficiency and robotization with an extremely underpaid working class below the regular working class. The new workers would be so cheap that ordinary people could afford to hire them.
Yes, we should have a generous refugee policy. We can also have and should have regulated labor immigration to the shortage professions in Sweden. But the largely unregulated labor immigration reform that the Alliance, with the support of the Green Party, introduced during its years in power threatens the Welfare State.
The modern economy needs immigrant labor, both refugees and more regular labor immigrants, but labor immigration cannot be unregulated. Unregulated labor immigration only serves to lower wages and conditions of work in Sweden to slave levels. And what good does it do labor immigrants if they come here but wages have fallen to the same level as in their countries of origin? Even Capital, whether they realize this or not, needs well-paid workers. For only a well-paid people can consume enough to maintain profits.
The Mariefred solution may seem like a solution to some , but in reality it is reminiscent of the dystopian future Kajsa Ekis Ekman predicts for Sweden. In a future where we are governed by bourgeois with the support of the Sweden Democrats. Capital today needs labor immigration to cope with its expansion. In Japan, where immigration is almost zero, an increasing percentage of Japanese people work themselves to death every year to cover the shortage of immigrant labor. At the same time, the Sweden Democrats will demand tougher measures and worse welfare for immigrants who come here. This will discipline the immigrant labor force even more and make native workers even less attractive to employers.