We are northerners.
We know that for most people a good work ethic is both desirable and worthy of recognition, and we have learned to take pride in taking care of our work.
But hopefully few of us are as morbidly preoccupied with working more as Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is.
She has spoken about it before, the Prime Minister. Asked us to provide more for the state, abolished a public holiday with dubious crisis arguments, and told us that going to work should not necessarily be “pleasant”.
At a conference in Christiansborg on Tuesday, the prime minister then again came into the conversation about the Danes’ work ethic and this time linked the debate about more work to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
– The assembly lines run in Russia 24/7. And the discussion I hear most about in Europe is that we want to work less. There is something in our mentality that we will have to change. The Russians are not going home. They continue, she said on Tuesday.
There is no doubt by now that the Prime Minister is generally dissatisfied with the Danes’ work ethic and wants more people to go home at 6pm rather than 4pm.
In the meantime, many families with children can ponder over who will look after the children in the meantime. In Aalborg, most institutions have cut their opening hours at the turn of the year, so that parents now have to drop off later or pick up earlier.
Jyllands-Posten recently wrote about an image that travels across the country and told, for example, about an institution that closes at 3.15pm on Fridays.
For some, it becomes a race against time. And while they head off to achieve it all, the mother of the country stubbornly insists on regularly and admonishingly longing for the way to organize life.
How about if she stopped dictating more work and instead curiously investigated why the vast majority of Danes have a desire to work less and not more?
The whole premise of wanting to dedicate one’s life to supporting welfare society survival with full-time work and lifelong tax payments is that we feel like we’re getting something back.
Right now, that bartering is seen as unattractive to many. And it does not help to escalate the debate with arguments of war. Because there is not much good to imitate in Putin’s regime.
Although the Russians stand at the assembly line 24/7 as slaves to the state, this cannot be read in the economy – Russia’s GDP has been stagnant since 1990, figures from the World Bank show. In comparison, the EU countries’ GDP has almost doubled.
So stay longer at the factory and save Ukraine?
It is probably most of all a connection and an argument that makes sense to Mette Frederiksen when she tries to justify her burning desire to increase citizens’ working hours.
2024-03-22 05:00:32
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