NYT ponuja zanimiv "long read" o strukturi del in delovnih mest v nekdanji in današnji Ameriki in nekaj namigov, kaj se bo verjetno dogajalo v bližnji prihodosti. Članku bi dal oznako PG-13 / R. Ni primeren za otroke, najstniki pa naj ga berejo samo pod nadzorom staršev. :-)

Popular ideas about the working class are woefully out of date. Here are nine people who tell a truer story of what the American work force does today — and will do tomorrow.
Forget the images of men in hard hats standing before factory gates, of men with coal-blackened faces, of men perched high above New York City on steel beams. The emerging face of the American working class is a Hispanic woman who has never set foot on a factory floor. That’s not the kind of work much of the working class does anymore. Instead of making things, they are more often paid to serve people: to care for someone else’s children or someone else’s parents; to clean another family’s home.
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The wages of service work increasingly determine the welfare of the American working class and, to a substantial degree, the broader economy. But politicians have paid little attention. That’s partly because Americans continue to view service work as a way station, not a way of life. Teenagers get their first job at McDonald’s; mothers dip back into the work force as receptionists; seniors make a little extra money as Walmart greeters. The reality is that these are the kinds of jobs millions of Americans hold for their entire working lives. And increasingly, these are the jobs their children will perform, too.
www.nytimes.com/2017...class.html

Ne vem, če bo ta švedski časnik za Slovenijo kaj poročal o novem pojavu v matični deželi, zato bom na kratko povzel pisanje britanskih medijev. Financial Times in Economist pišeta, da ta teden objavljeni švedski uradni podatki kažejo, da so davčni prihodki rasli veliko hitreje od pričakovanj. Državni proračun je imel v letu 2016 presežek 85 GSEK (9,5 GUSD). Za skoraj polovico tega presežka oz. 40 GSEK so kriva preplačila podjetij in fizičnih oseb, ki so očitno namerna. Zakaj?

Od marca 2015 švedska centralna in druge tamkajšnje banke obrestno mero tiščijo pod 0%, da bi pomagali preprečiti deflacijo. Hkrati pa je švedska vlada obljubila, da bo na preplačila davkov ob vračilu obračunala pozitivno obrestno mero (0,56%). Čeprav so do zdaj to obrestno mero spustili na nič, so posamezniki in firme na boljšem, če svoje prihranke naložijo v preplačilo davkov, kot da jim počasi kopnijo na bančnih računih. Podoben pojav so opazili tudi v Švici.

To je kruto maščevanje davkoplačevalcev oz. smešen zasuk zgodovine - od pravljice Pomperipossa i Monismanien do prostovoljnega preplačevanja davkov. BTW, bi ta fenomen lahko kreativno kopirali v Moji Deželi ter tako malo zmanjšali in pocenili zunanjo zadolženost države, dokler je velik del bančnega sistema še v državnih rokah? Najbrž bi šlo v našem primeru za kršenje norm ECB, predpisov EU in navodil EK, zato je vprašanje samo retorično. :-)

Sweden complains it is collecting too much tax
Most governments would be pleased with an annual budget surplus more than twice the forecast size. But Stockholm has complained that this “involuntary borrowing” from residents will cost it around SKr800m more over 2016 and 2017 than if they had borrowed the money at market rates.
www.ft.com/content/d...969e0d3b65

Negative interest rates are likely to continue in Sweden for some time, which suggests that overpayment of taxes will also go on. That sounds like the sort of problem a government in southern Europe would be delighted to have. In Sweden, however, officials may ask taxpayers to cool it and please pay a bit less.
www.economist.com/bl...xplains-19

hvala za to, lep prispevek... potrjuje tudi tisto mojo tečno opozarjanje na inkonsistenčnost utd utopistov, ki sanjajo kako v kratkem ne bo delovnih mest, ker bodo vse roboti naredili... ;-)

LpA