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Midsummer crisis in Sweden | 20 comments (20 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Midsummer crisis in Sweden (4.00 / 3)
all across the world rents are becoming an issue. It's becoming a fault line between left and right that possibly was never expected. It's gonna be the number one issue going forward

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jun 25th, 2021 at 10:23:49 PM EST
'Left' or Socialist An Extinct Species (4.00 / 2)
See US Navy manual "Introduction to Terrorism/Terrorist Operations"

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
by Oui on Sat Jun 26th, 2021 at 09:23:48 AM EST
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Covid-19 Funds Used to Speculate in Property (none / 1)
Houses are for living, not for speculation. (Chinese proverb - 2021)

Easing of loans for businesses in China has been used to buy property. The CPC has announced it will crack down on this illegal abuse of Covid-19 funds.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Sat Jun 26th, 2021 at 01:09:48 PM EST
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Re: Midsummer crisis in Sweden (4.00 / 5)
As the real economy stagnates, and the speculative economy blows bubbbles, catching rents in various forms is increasingly what is left. Saw recently that the Biden bipartisan economic plan contains "asset recycling", ie hand over everything to Wall Street and let them collcet the rents, because markets. But housing rents are the original rents.

In Sweden at least, the corporate think tank Timbro has been doing long term work in training young politicians of different stripes in neoliberal ortodoxy and grievance politics. If you are young and can't get a job (or the job you deserve) who is at fault? Obviously it is old people who has seniority and crap, get them out and you can get a job! If you are young and can't get an apartment, who is at fault? Obviously it is old people who has rent control and crap, get them out and you can get an apartment!

Naturally, the economic rules that keep unemployment in place, make sure that all expansion of teh economy goes to the big cities with predictable lack of appartments etc etc, can not be questioned. What are you, some kind of socialist?! Do you want people to die in the Gulag?!

by fjallstrom on Sat Jun 26th, 2021 at 01:33:50 PM EST
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Re: Midsummer crisis in Sweden (4.00 / 2)
It sounds like 'dying in the gulag' is what a lot of people will be doing under this arrangement. It will just be that the gulag is a bit different than they expected.

The ONE bright spot in the USA is that the younger the generation the more progressive it becomes. In the '60s I always thought 'don't trust anyone over thirty' was stupid. Those idiots were giving themselves ten years or less of relevance - if only people remembered. But in the current day USA there is a similar dynamic, with the GenX and younger generations rightly criticizing the Boomer generation for getting theirs and then voting to have the ladder pulled up. But the effects are opposite in tendency
to those in Sweden.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat Jun 26th, 2021 at 03:50:39 PM EST
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Re: Midsummer crisis in Sweden (4.00 / 2)
Oh, I don't think the young neoliberals are many, Timbro has just done well in selecting for those likely to make a political career and catching them young. Opposite of mass movement, if you like.
by fjallstrom on Sat Jun 26th, 2021 at 11:53:11 PM EST
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Re: Midsummer crisis in Sweden (none / 1)
I hope so, and I hope that their craven greed is exposed for what it is.


"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sun Jun 27th, 2021 at 03:39:38 AM EST
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