I know I’m the only one in the thread who thinks the electricity price is idiotic and that it’s getting repetitive 🙂
I currently see a perfect storm, and if it continues for a while longer, groups will be wiped out.
There have been too rapid swings, and even if you do something right/good, it’s hard to get everything right.
As dissatisfied as I am with the electricity price, I’m equally pleased not to have a mortgage (anymore), for example.
Others have neither loans nor high electricity prices, but they may have a low pension that doesn’t compensate for inflation.
A third has borrowed heavily to improve energy efficiency and is getting hit that way.
A fourth has done everything right – owns a farm and is a self-sufficient prepper, but is wiped out by the electricity price.
A fifth had everything in the stock market and it went down (just as an example, everyone here is getting rich on the stock market).
The only ones who seem fully compensated are our ministers because they have negotiated a salary of 150,000 SEK/month.
If you can’t reduce expenses any further, the only option left is to raise salaries for those who can, but the state has covered that with increasing taxes, so you end up with less after crossing thresholds.
We then declare bartering; we exchange services – taxable if discovered (right?).
In a way, it’s probably lucky that we have an M-led government because a hefty property tax on this would have been game over for homeowners 🙂
A way forward that I believe will happen on a large scale is renting out rooms or moving in together and renting out one of the residences.
If you have elderly parents who can’t make ends meet, they move in and then their house is rented out, for example.
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I know I’m the only one in the thread who thinks the electricity price is idiotic and that it’s getting repetitive 🙂
I currently see a perfect storm, and if it continues for a while longer, groups will be wiped out.
There have been too rapid swings, and even if you do something right/good, it’s hard to get everything right.
As dissatisfied as I am with the electricity price, I’m equally pleased not to have a mortgage (anymore), for example.
Others have neither loans nor high electricity prices, but they may have a low pension that doesn’t compensate for inflation.
A third has borrowed heavily to improve energy efficiency and is getting hit that way.
A fourth has done everything right – owns a farm and is a self-sufficient prepper, but is wiped out by the electricity price.
A fifth had everything in the stock market and it went down (just as an example, everyone here is getting rich on the stock market).
The only ones who seem fully compensated are our ministers because they have negotiated a salary of 150,000 SEK/month.
If you can’t reduce expenses any further, the only option left is to raise salaries for those who can, but the state has covered that with increasing taxes, so you end up with less after crossing thresholds.
We then declare bartering; we exchange services – taxable if discovered (right?).
In a way, it’s probably lucky that we have an M-led government because a hefty property tax on this would have been game over for homeowners 🙂
A way forward that I believe will happen on a large scale is renting out rooms or moving in together and renting out one of the residences.
If you have elderly parents who can’t make ends meet, they move in and then their house is rented out, for example.