'Upper-class safari' angers Stockholmers
Published: 16 Jan 12 15:47 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/38536/20120116/
Plans for a sightseeing trip to Saltsjöbaden to “see how the other half lives,” have been reported to police after coming under fire from residents of the well-to-do Stockholm suburb.
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The bus trip, arranged by “Everything for Everyone” (“Allt åt Alla”) has proved to be a big hit, with people seemingly desperate to peek behind the curtains of the rich and famous.
The actual aim of the organizers however, is to debunk the myth of Sweden being a classless society and to highlight the gulf between the classes.
Not everyone seems to be so enamoured with the idea though.
One resident of the exclusive suburb was apparently so enraged by the news, that he filed an official complaint to the police, citing an intrusion of privacy.
His plea was apparently given short shrift by the local police force though.
“Anyone is free to organize something like this,” Ulla Krogh at Nacka Police told the local newspaper Näcka-Värmdö Posten.
Highlights of the Saltsjöbaden tour will apparently include the chance to meet Rolf, who lives in Sweden’s most expensive house, the sea view from “Oscar’s” house, one of those featured in the popular comedy series "Solsidan", as well as the Grand Hotell in Saltsjöbaden.
Before reaching the upscale suburb, however, the bus will go through Fisksätra, Sweden’s most densely populated suburb and a world away in terms of wealth from its neighbour.
All For One calls itself a "revolutionary organization" involved in class warfare, according to its website.
The group calls on prospective sightseers to develop their "hate" of the class system.
Similar trips have been arranged in Gothenburg and Malmö and have proved to be highly popular.
The Saltsjöbaden tour seems likely to follow suit having quickly sold out, according to the organizers.
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-- All For One calls itself a "revolutionary organization" involved in class warfare, according to its website.
Sounds like a pretty good description of a leftist terrorist organization. Sweden is as close to a classless society as you will get outside a hunter-gatherer society. All high school students should be required to take 4 years of Economics to truly understand how the wealth of a nation is created. Instead they study literature and we produce generation after generation of the economically illiterate who see economic inequality and think the solution is to upend the system to solve it.
As far as the bus tour goes, I don't see the problem.
Is there a risk all that hate might tip them off the edge so they become violent?
Is a person who goes on a hate development bus tour fit to be loose amongst normal people?
Are their children safe?
Robinhood, I agree. The group's objective is to promote hate. If I was in that neighborhood I would not want them there either. Also if I was in the poor neighborhood I would not want a bus full of middle class idiots using me as a benchmark for a shitty life.
Ans Sweden is NOT classless in any ways. Canada, the UK and France is more classless than Sweden, since it's popular movements have been based on the de facto people, not a cultural elite. I'm very jealous of the UK being more classless than Sweden.