Sverige är annorlunda. Den genomsnittliga löneökningen sedan slutet av 70-talet ligger här på flera hundra procent och även om man räknar reallönen har en svensk arbetare nästan 30 procent högre inkomst i dag än för 20 år sedan.
För någon från vänster borde den skillnaden vara självklar att lyfta upp. Att läget är bättre för de breda lagren här är inte en slump utan tvärtom resultatet av mer än hundra år av politiskt och fackligt arbete.
Tyvärr lyckades någon fet kapitalist som dog en ynklig död i pina under mängdens jubel inte bara hindra politikerna och facket från att höja reallönen med fyrtiotusen miljarder procent - utan även att stadigt öka den ekonomiska friheten de senaste decennierna - ur Johnny Munkhammars Wall Street Journal-artikel:
The 1970s were a decade of radical government intervention in society and in markets, during which Sweden doubled its overall tax burden, socialized a slew of industries, re-regulated its markets, expanded its public systems, and shuttered its borders. In 1970, Sweden had the world's fourth-highest GDP per capita. By 1990, it had fallen 13 positions. In those 20 years, real wages in Sweden increased by only one percentage point.
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By the late 1980s, though, Sweden had started de-regulating its markets once again, decreased its marginal tax rates, and opted for a sound-money, low-inflation policy. In the early 1990s, the pace quickened, and most markets except for labor and housing were liberalized. The state sold its shares in a number of companies, granted independence to its central bank, and introduced school vouchers that improved choice and competition in education. Stockholm slashed public pensions and introduced private retirement schemes, keeping the system demographically sustainable.
These decisive economic liberalizations, and not socialism, are what laid the foundations for Sweden's success over the last 15 years. After the reforms of the early 1990s, Swedes' real wages increased by roughly 35% in a decade.
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