For a long time it was a contract between the people and the authorities in Sweden that the more you work, the easier it gets. If you studied hard at school, you got a white-collar job where you had to sit down. If you worked hard on the floor, you could qualify for a lucrative labor job as an assembly line worker. Life wasn't so easy there, but you got money that allowed you to buy yourself a harmony in life anyway. Students were poor, but could take extra jobs in trade and have a more tolerable existence. Social insurance was relatively generous so that purchasing power would not be undermined and growth threatened if a factory shut down or some employees fell ill. In part, it still is. But hard jobs bring less and less money and white-collar jobs are increasingly tiring. In order to hold on to the temporary side jobs as a student or manage the first low-level white-collar jobs after graduation, you need to be fast and have extreme cadaver discipline. The first jobs knock out many who would otherwise have been able to contribute for decades at a more adequate level.
This path where fewer people have to work harder for less leads to a murderous fight for the leftovers from the rich's table and creates both right-wing and left-wing extremism. Two things need to be relearned by those in power. Everyone who works needs regular time for recovery and play, otherwise they will get sick. It is the vast majority of the people, low- and middle-income earners, who keep consumption going, who keep growth going. A poor majority of the people can only feed an ever-shrinking upper class.
Restore the distribution between the workers and the power. Reward the people again so that we can put up with subordination. Power cannot only take, it must also give.