I en ny artikel berättar Nima Sanandaji hur mycket hans familj kunde utnyttja välfärdsstaten, och hur det generösa välfärdssystemet förstör självansvaret genom att göra det meningslöst för folk att försöka försörja sig själva genom eget arbete. Det lönar sig för många att leva på bidrag från staten, och detta är en lärdom som tyvärr många invandrare utnyttjar. Men inbilla er inte att svenskar är ett dugg bättre. För som Sanandaji påpekar är det flera hundra tusen svenskar som bland annat utnyttjar den generösa välfärdsstaten genom att sjukskriva sig fast de är i stånd att jobba. Och som om detta inte vore illa nog bidrar även välfärdspolitiken till att förstöra alla ekonomiska incitament till högre studier. Sanandaji skriver bl a:

One thing that my up growing has shown me is that there is little incentive to work and educate yourself in the Swedish welfare system. According to the Institute for Labour Policies the average salary of a person who has studied at a university for three years is only five percent higher of somebody who is uneducated. Most Swedish families would have higher income if they lived off government and made some money working in the black market.

”For a long time the strong work ethics in Sweden has prevented people from exploiting the system. But this seems to be changing. The work ethic has dramatically fallen in Sweden. More and more people are finding ways of living off government as an alternative to working. Between 20 and 25 percent of the working age population does not work. Between 1997 and 2003 the number of people who were on sick leave increased by more than 200,000, a dramatic number for a small country such as Sweden.

”There hasn’t been a great epidemic sweeping the country during this period, but rather a change in attitude. Today 62 percent of the employees in Sweden believe that it might be OK to take a sick leave even though illness doesn’t stop you from working. This attitude is probably simply an adjusting of ethics to the Swedish system. What can you expect in a country where 9 out of 10 females who are living off sick leave would have less money in their pockets if they went back to their jobs?

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