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And if there is public protest about delivery prices increasing the government won't order the board to stop it and pretend to forget profitability?
Most likely not. The Scandinavian countries are capitalist democracies not dictatorships. Of course if it gets out of hand then the state will take action but anything beyond what any owner of a company could do would invite challenges in the courts. What governments have done here is to deregulate the postal services to a fairly large degree so that there is genuine competition at least for parcels. I can send parce…
Appointing a new CEO of a state-owned company and telling him what to do is hardly a 'dictatorship'. Maybe if it was a public broadcaster and the government made editorial decisions.
My country also has a national Post Office which is a joint stock company and the state 'only' owns all of the shares. It is still definitely a public institution.
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I still feel that text makes it clear the actual working conditions & rights etc are built up by the unions and not the governments? Fwiw I live in Sweden and am a member of its largest Union
It wouldn't be possible for unions to do it without the supporting framework provide by legislation.
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Agreed, and if Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, are for the people, let the people decide whether want to buy a Tesla and support Elon. Cutting off shipping to their rightful owners sounds like you are curtailing your own citizens from living as they please. Would be interesting if they and other countries unions had stopped the shipments of iPhones to their citizen consumers due to the working conditions and no unions a…
What a bizarre parallel to the iPhone. No one is buying a $50,000+ car because they want to 'support Elon', who is Top 5 among the world's richest people. If the freight workers unloading shipping containers containing iPhones choose to strike, it will be due to changes in working conditions that affect them , not what conditions are like in a foreign factory.
Tesla is a big seller in Norway, then Sweden, followed third by Denmark in Scandinavia. The governments push them legislatively and via financial subsidies. I am not fully informed of the metal worker's gripes in Sweden, nor the labor structures in Scandinavia, but the mob of Norway dock workers and others in Denmark unions all joining in, because Elon doesn't agree with unions or forming them, seems more a first-world problem (like people not potentially getting their iPhones), but with the iPhone nobody boycotted Apple from 2006 to 2010, and then in 2012, writers, not unions, started to raise consumer consciousness on the issue with suggestions of boycotts on Apple.
I hope Elon tells Scandinavia to F-off like he just did to X advertisers. Sweden is one of the world's most unionized nations, but it is a fairly homongenous society. The percentages are going down as they accept more immigrants into their society. In addition, Scandinavia has bought the EV craze hook, line, and sinker, even though EVs are turning out not to be the cure for all the ills of the world as many thought they once were. They are heavily invested in many ways. I am curious to see how this plays out.
[Edit] I don't think the consumers are personally buying Teslas to financially support Elon personally, but by choosing to buy a Tesla they are voting with their wallets, and I think pro- and anti-union are two valid stances. Neither is the product of being brainwashed as some have commented here.
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Is is writing Elmu, which seems a short way of writing "Elon Musk", which is kind of getting tiring to read or (I guess) write.
It's a new level of fame when you get your own internet initialism!
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Agreed, and if Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, are for the people, let the people decide whether want to buy a Tesla and support Elon. Cutting off shipping to their rightful owners sounds like you are curtailing your own citizens from living as they please. Would be interesting if they and other countries unions had stopped the shipments of iPhones to their citizen consumers due to the working conditions and no unions a…
You can still drive from Sweden to Germany and buy a Tesla there, if you care enough about it. BTW, you will always reach the point where you need to "curtail[..] your own citizens from living as they please" or else you'll end up with kids blowing up your stuff just for the fun of it.
More in the classic libertarian sense that if what I enjoy is not directly harming you or taking away your rights, keep to your own business.
Here it is a Scandinavian choosing to buy a Tesla with no concern or argument concerning labor unions. BTW, the UAW sucks.
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News flash. Stockholm is not in southern sweden. Also Stockholm subway is famous for breaking down even if a single leave fall on the tracks.
> Southern Sweden with 80% of the Swedish population > Stockholm is not in southern sweden Are you sure this the level of comments you are supposed to post here?
With the help of ChatGPT, I crossreferenced two lists of all municipalities (kommuner) in Sweden to place them in an increasing latitude order (south->north), and calculated where the 80% population threshold lies.
The answer is Västerås, which is a bit north of Stockholm. It is only 31.7% of the distance to the northernmost point in Sweden.
So 80% of Sweden's population lives in the southernmost 32% of the country. This might not be called "Sydsverige" in Swedish, but describing it to a foreigner I think 32% qualifies as "Southern Sweden".
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News flash. Stockholm is not in southern sweden. Also Stockholm subway is famous for breaking down even if a single leave fall on the tracks.
If we have northern and southern parts then Stockholm is in the southern part.
ChatGPT: "Stockholm lies approximately 28.87% of the way north when considering the span from the southernmost to the northernmost points of Sweden's municipalities, based on latitude."
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>people realize that maybe winter tires aren't such a bad idea Hold the phone. Are you telling me winter tires are not mandatory by law in Denmark in winter?!
They are not, surprisingly. I guess the reasoning is that during a normal winter they are required for maybe a few weeks. Many won't switch because they either don't want to pay for a second set of tires, or because it hurt fuel economy for most of the winter. All year tires are also somewhat popular, but they don't work as well in snow. You could probably get a fine for driving without them if the weather makes it u…
That is exactly how the law is written in Sweden too:
"During the period from 1 December to 31 March there are special requirements in Sweden on which type of tyre a certain vehicle is to have when there are winter conditions on the road."
https://transportstyrelsen.se/en/road/Vehicles/winter-tyres/
So, according to the law in Sweden, winter tires are not legally required if there are not winter conditions on the road.
But most years, you won't make it much past December 1st before encountering winter conditions in most parts of Sweden.