I would have figured it was the socialized healthcare, the relative income equality, a cultural trend towards egalitarianism, and good social services.
I would have figured it was the socialized healthcare, the relative income equality, a cultural trend towards egalitarianism, and good social services.
This is also not true anymore... Sweden has abandoned the idea of income equality and has implemented changes to make it more and more expensive for poorer people with health care and medicine and...
This is also not true anymore...
Sweden has abandoned the idea of income equality and has implemented changes to make it more and more expensive for poorer people with health care and medicine and also a continuous tearing down of social services.
Sure, many things are still better in Sweden than in many other countries but they are much worse than they have to be and certainly worse than what you imagine and what this article tries to convey.
But I'll give you that, whatever general wellbeing there is hasn't got to do with kolonilotter (plot wothout house) or koloniträdgårdar (with small house).
None, sorry, not that learned in the field, just been living here for a while (40+ years) If you read past the first few paragraphs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_Sweden a...
None, sorry, not that learned in the field, just been living here for a while (40+ years)
In my lifetime some changes that have happened (but I can't reference specific laws and/or dates, etc) in no specific order:
continuously worsening conditions for the basically general unemployment insurance
selling out infrastructure (postal services, electricity, telecom, railways, public transport, etc - but interestingly not water), health care, social welfare, education services, etc to private equity. Which would want a profit, so has to give worse service.
raising the cost for medicine and health care visits
worsening workers(=employed peoples) rights
many social welfare systems that provide for those who can't provide for themselves have not kept up with the cost of living.
harsher and harsher requirements to get access to some social services
selling out common resources (state, etc owned corporations, housing, etc) to people under the disguise of letting everyone share in the future profits while the effect is that normal people start to care about crap like interest rates, investments, markets, etc
The last point is just one of my favourite rants ;)
Maybe I could help you find stuff, as I might know some of the relevant search terms. Let me know!
And I do enjoy talking/ranting about this, but I don't really have any real verifiable knowledge, just personal anecdata.
These exist in the US as well. A lot of them began as Victory Gardens and later morphed into community gardens. https://www.history.com/articles/americas-patriotic-victory-gardens
These exist in the US as well. A lot of them began as Victory Gardens and later morphed into community gardens.
I would have figured it was the socialized healthcare, the relative income equality, a cultural trend towards egalitarianism, and good social services.
This is also not true anymore...
Sweden has abandoned the idea of income equality and has implemented changes to make it more and more expensive for poorer people with health care and medicine and also a continuous tearing down of social services.
Sure, many things are still better in Sweden than in many other countries but they are much worse than they have to be and certainly worse than what you imagine and what this article tries to convey.
But I'll give you that, whatever general wellbeing there is hasn't got to do with kolonilotter (plot wothout house) or koloniträdgårdar (with small house).
None, sorry, not that learned in the field, just been living here for a while (40+ years)
If you read past the first few paragraphs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_Sweden a less rosy picture emerges.
In my lifetime some changes that have happened (but I can't reference specific laws and/or dates, etc) in no specific order:
The last point is just one of my favourite rants ;)
Maybe I could help you find stuff, as I might know some of the relevant search terms. Let me know!
And I do enjoy talking/ranting about this, but I don't really have any real verifiable knowledge, just personal anecdata.
Nah.
Germany has this too! Schrebergärten are quite sought-after in most cities, for example.
These exist in the US as well. A lot of them began as Victory Gardens and later morphed into community gardens.
https://www.history.com/articles/americas-patriotic-victory-gardens
Mirror: https://archive.is/JbCqd