Schlingmann, the rhetorically gifted architect the architect behind the working line and the New Moderates, speaks in DN about the death of the line of work and a future of passion for work.
What he describes is an anarcho-capitalist dystopia. He says that the opportunity for Sweden to raise taxes and expand the public sector to replace the jobs that digitization is expected to rationalize away is over. However, he does not explain why that opportunity is over.
He admits that fewer hands will be needed in production. Digitization and automation will eliminate half of all jobs in the next 20 years. And now the highly qualified white-collar professions will also largely disappear. However, he does not want working hours to be shortened. Without having to fight for hourly jobs at workplaces that will exist for a short time under intensive conditions and then be replaced by new workplaces. Also the short-term ones.
I don't really understand who the winners are in this anarcho-capitalist nightmare society, but it's the big capitalists. But even many of these risk being knocked out as they may have bet their money on a business flower that blooms.
As usual, citizens say that red-green politics is impossible. As a leftist, I say that in the maximally automated society of the future, high taxes, redistributive policies, reduced working hours, generous social safety nets (and probably also a high citizen's wage) and an expanding public sector will be necessary not only to make the future a utopia but also to to keep profit-generating consumption alive for the benefit of the capitalists.
If we cooperate, we have everything to gain. If we refuse taxes, we will have to toil even harder for fewer and fewer scraps.