Swedish Media Storms
Two of them, and they are both dumb.
Firstly, a Swedish policitian has been called out and critisized because he is letting people rent his house and apartment at a very high cost. Oddly, he is a Social Democrat, and maybe that is why the whole left wing is going nuts. It is like they think that him placing a high weekly price on his apartment somehow steals money from the poor, or that him letting people rent his nice house at high cost will dictate rent for low income families everywhere. Well, the whole left wing is wrong. And dumb. If the price is too high, he will not get it rented. “Supply & demand”, market economy, and all that - you know?
The second media storm is TV based. TV has shown a reality show called (freely translated) “The Diplomats”. Turns out, Swedish diplomats are filthy drunk pigs. Does anybody smell a rat? Do you think they have selected only portions of the lives documented? Of course. And my brother thought of two additional things: firstly, getting local politicians drunk and happy might in reality be highly effective diplomacy. “Diplomacy through insobriety”, as it where. Seondly, this might be a great PR trick to create a queue outside diplomacy school. Can you see it? The kids seeing the supposedly glamorous and champagne infested lives of diplomats in third world countries, thinking “that could be me”.
So, in summary:
- Yay capitalism.
- Things seen on TV aren’t always the whole truth.
Obvious things to some, but clearly not to many of my fellow Swedes.
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