{"id":527,"date":"2010-03-11T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T09:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=527"},"modified":"2010-03-11T09:12:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T09:12:10","slug":"sweden-invents-new-ways-for-unemployment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/sweden-invents-new-ways-for-unemployment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden invents new ways for unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swedes usually like to pride themselves in being creative and their ability to invent new things. Since we were starving and had a really poor quality of life during the 1800’s and before that when things started turning we were all too happy to embrace (omfamna<\/strong>) change. Therefore change has been a good thing for us. One theory is that since we haven\u2019t actively taken part in a war for over 200 years that gave us the luxury of liking change without it being forced upon us. Though some might ask themselves if we are going in the direction we want to be going in i.e. making everything hyper-efficient (hypereffektiv<\/strong>). Our inventions centre around making everything as easy as possible.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to name some of the inventions (uppfinningar<\/strong>) that have taken people’s jobs away, made things easier for the customer (kunden<\/strong>) and for the people who got to keep their jobs.<\/p>\n

Almost all big supermarkets in Sweden now have a system where you as the customer scan all the products you want to buy and take them to an automatic cash register (kassa<\/strong>) (unmanned by a person). You pay with your credit card \u00a0(kreditkort<\/strong>) and walk out. This new system allows you to scan and bag all your items as you walk round the shop. To prevent stealing you get randomly checked, which means you have to unpack all your shopping and go to a \u201cnormal\u201d cash register. These new shopping systems haven\u2019t taken over completely – the traditional way of shopping still exists.\u00a0 But shops do everything within their power to steer people to this new and modern way.<\/p>\n

In the city where I live, our biggest central library (bibliotek<\/strong>) has gone over to a new system in which you don\u2019t need to talk to the librarians unless you have a problem. There are machines at the front of the library were you leave the books you want to return, the books get scanned, then taken away on a conveyor belt and behind glass windows they get reshelved. If you have reserved a book you now just have to go and collect it from a book shelf, and there is of course a machine you use to scan books you want to borrow.<\/p>\n

Banking is yet another business that has moved their services onto the internet, away from traditional face-to-face communication and consulting.<\/p>\n

Paying for things online has made room for a new market to establish itself, the most famous trading, buying and selling site: blocket.se has become a big hobby for a lot of people, for some even an addiction.\u00a0 People can sit in front of the computer just leafing (virtually) through pages and pages of snow mobiles (sn\u00f6skotrar<\/strong>), cars, stereos and many more products.<\/p>\n

You can buy train tickets, plane tickets, book trips months in advance and then just hours before you leave you can go up to yet another machine and have it print out all your travel information. Once through the check point you can even go onboard without speaking to a single soul.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m sure all of these inventions and new systems are making our lives better in a lot of ways, I just think it is a bit sad that nowadays you don\u2019t need to small talk to people you don\u2019t know. How can I ask the machine at the cash register how its children are doing? Or just chat about the weather with my local ATM \u00a0(bankomat<\/strong>)? I\u2019m expected to have checked the weather forecast (v\u00e4derprognos<\/strong>) for my final destination on my mobile phone before I get on the plane instead of asking the flight stewardess.<\/p>\n

Not only are we creating a situation where we no longer need to talk to each other, but we are also substituting modern technology for human labour.\u00a0 Is this only occurring in Sweden?<\/p>\n

And more importantly is this the direction we want to be going in?<\/p>\n

Cash register – Kassa<\/p>\n

Credit card – Kreditkort<\/p>\n

ATM – Bankomat<\/p>\n

Inventions – Uppfinningar<\/p>\n

Weather forcast – V\u00e4derprognos<\/p>\n

Snow mobiles – Sn\u00f6skotrar<\/p>\n

Embrace – Omfamna<\/p>\n

Hyper-efficient – Hypereffektiv<\/p>\n

Customer – Kund<\/p>\n

Library – Bibliotek <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swedes usually like to pride themselves in being creative and their ability to invent new things. Since we were starving and had a really poor quality of life during the 1800’s and before that when things started turning we were all too happy to embrace (omfamna) change. Therefore change has been a good thing for…<\/p>\n

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