Come to Sweden, the age of retirement for normal workers such as carpenters or store clerks, or nurses and such is 67. Want to retire before that, you have to ask for permission. Want to work past retirement age, even if you have your own business? Must get permission.
(I'm simplifying but this is the essentials of the current order.)
Come to Sweden, the age of retirement for normal workers such as carpenters or store clerks, or nurses and such is 67. Want to retire before that, you have to ask for permission. Want to work past retirement age, even if you have your own business? Must get permission.
(I'm simplifying but this is the essentials of the current order.)
Want to invest part of your wage in a retirement-fund of your own choice? Illegal, except if you work or sit in parliament. For everyone else it's the state/union owned and controlled funds where a percentage of your pay is placed, as dictated by law.
If you make less than €3 500 net/monthly for 35 years of your career, you will never get more than the lowest amount anyway, so for the majoirty of workers it doesn't matter that they "save" for their retirement; when they reach that age those money have already been used up by the state or eaten by inflation or taxed into oblivion or all three.
Oh, and if you're married and your spouse die before collecting their privately funded pension, those money goes straight to the state - they cannot be willed to your wife/husband.
Don't get me started on people with multiple nationalities collecting pension from every country they're a citizen of...
Burn the EU, burn the ashes then burn it all again!
What you just describe is similar to other countries in EU, sadly. But I don't know other countries with 67 as retirement age (maybe there are others), this is insane. People should not accept this retirement scam.
Virtually all swedes above age 45-50 live in a delusion where they react, reason and analyse any political issue, domestic as well as international, as if it was still the 1970s.
Analogous to how the french thought about the Maginot line before May 10 1940.
It's not 'just them'. It's all of Western nations and peoples.
My 2 cents on this one:
It's easier to believe a lie or two (or more) if the reality one faces is: betrayal.
It's easier to condemn those who speak the truth ('disinformation', in today's parlance) than to listen, assess the veracity, and act upon one's considerations.
Peter Pan syndrome, writ large. It's one of the many reasons why democracy doesn't work (anymore, if it ever really did): we believe in it so hard because it's already a thing of the past. Any kind of reckoning would indicate a drastic shift, and many, if not most, are gullible, complacent, and, yes, too comfortable to move.
I mean, as an aside, look at our ancestors as little as 125 years ago: working people, after 10+ hours of typically hard, physical labour, went to the union locales to read up on current events, cross-relate it to Marx' writings, and have a debate. Today, most people are hesitant to read more than the subheader of a legacy media news posting.
It is easier to uphold the Potemkin-village than to acknowledge reality.
That is also why swedish politicians, celebrities and such lash out against Hungary and Poland and now also El Salvador.
El Salvador today celebrated 64 days without a murder. Sweden has had 7 murders so far this year if we only count shootings. Barring Ukraine, this is the most dangerous country in Europe.
Come to Sweden, the age of retirement for normal workers such as carpenters or store clerks, or nurses and such is 67. Want to retire before that, you have to ask for permission. Want to work past retirement age, even if you have your own business? Must get permission.
(I'm simplifying but this is the essentials of the current order.)
Want to invest part of your wage in a retirement-fund of your own choice? Illegal, except if you work or sit in parliament. For everyone else it's the state/union owned and controlled funds where a percentage of your pay is placed, as dictated by law.
If you make less than €3 500 net/monthly for 35 years of your career, you will never get more than the lowest amount anyway, so for the majoirty of workers it doesn't matter that they "save" for their retirement; when they reach that age those money have already been used up by the state or eaten by inflation or taxed into oblivion or all three.
Oh, and if you're married and your spouse die before collecting their privately funded pension, those money goes straight to the state - they cannot be willed to your wife/husband.
Don't get me started on people with multiple nationalities collecting pension from every country they're a citizen of...
Burn the EU, burn the ashes then burn it all again!
What you just describe is similar to other countries in EU, sadly. But I don't know other countries with 67 as retirement age (maybe there are others), this is insane. People should not accept this retirement scam.
Australia keeps raising the age. Currently at 66, plans to raise it by 1/2 year every 5 years.
This is crazy!
Virtually all swedes above age 45-50 live in a delusion where they react, reason and analyse any political issue, domestic as well as international, as if it was still the 1970s.
Analogous to how the french thought about the Maginot line before May 10 1940.
Why do you think they are still trapped in the past?
It's not 'just them'. It's all of Western nations and peoples.
My 2 cents on this one:
It's easier to believe a lie or two (or more) if the reality one faces is: betrayal.
It's easier to condemn those who speak the truth ('disinformation', in today's parlance) than to listen, assess the veracity, and act upon one's considerations.
Peter Pan syndrome, writ large. It's one of the many reasons why democracy doesn't work (anymore, if it ever really did): we believe in it so hard because it's already a thing of the past. Any kind of reckoning would indicate a drastic shift, and many, if not most, are gullible, complacent, and, yes, too comfortable to move.
I mean, as an aside, look at our ancestors as little as 125 years ago: working people, after 10+ hours of typically hard, physical labour, went to the union locales to read up on current events, cross-relate it to Marx' writings, and have a debate. Today, most people are hesitant to read more than the subheader of a legacy media news posting.
Thus passes the glory of the world
Because this used to be a great nation.
It is easier to uphold the Potemkin-village than to acknowledge reality.
That is also why swedish politicians, celebrities and such lash out against Hungary and Poland and now also El Salvador.
El Salvador today celebrated 64 days without a murder. Sweden has had 7 murders so far this year if we only count shootings. Barring Ukraine, this is the most dangerous country in Europe.
Everyone knows why.