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I don't know what Sweden he has lived in, but me who has lived in Sweden through the 90s, 00s and 10s, I feel that practically the only thing people want to tal
by gingersnap 2y ago
I don't know what Sweden he has lived in, but me who has lived in Sweden through the 90s, 00s and 10s, I feel that practically the only thing people want to talk about is problems with immigration.
In relation to digging into a major economic shift during thee 30 years, moving Sweden from being one of the most egalitarian societies to consistently having an increasing economic gap.
This continues with the last budget, again giving tax cuts to, not salary work, but dividents.
"But isn't Sweden a high tax society", well, it still a quite high tax on work, but all other type of taxes has been remove or dramatically decreased (inheritance tax, gift tax, property tax, corporate tax, divident tax). So it is increasingly cheaper to earn money on others work (also your parents), but if cant afford to invest you will a hard time actually working yourself up by just putting hours in.
But hey, the problem is just "immigration" and that people cant talk about it (even though the only thing people talk about is just that).
- casenmgreen 2y agoI may be utterly wrong, but I understand from Swedish friends (I lived in Stockholm for a year, something more than ten years ago) that the problem is fairly recent, and comes from Government deciding to take in large numbers of refugees from middle east (Iraq, Kurds, etc). The Government did the right thing, in terms of sharing the burden, plenty of locals don't like it at all, and in practical terms they make some good arguments.