Perhaps Norway could retain more of its citizens if their “bosses” behaved more decently.
SV leader Kirsti Bergstøs statements that Kjell Inge Røkke “robbed the coast and ran off to Switzerland” and “can smoke and travel”, is on the same level as LO leader Peggy Hessen Følsviks blowout that Røkke “sees it as his most important task to fill the lining of his coat with as much money as possible and escape the country”.
We live in a democracy, and that’s a good thing. The “bosses” are in many ways the Storting and the government. Us ordinary people have to adapt to what the political leaders decide. That is the way it is and should be. As in a workplace with bosses and “ordinary” employees.
If the bosses in working life behave harassingly, we have means of action. Similarly, if the bosses (or owners) take a disproportionate amount of the profit you help create, or they use the profit on things you don’t want to identify with.
Remedies against rude or unreasonable bosses in employment vary, but include quitting your job and looking for work where you are respected and where the profits are used in a way you can accept.
Transferred to a situation with harassing chief politicians: There are several means, including of course through elections, but one of the means is also to “resign as a citizen” and move to a country where you avoid harassment, and where your efforts for the “boss” will be appreciated. Like, for example, Switzerland.
In order to retain citizens, perhaps the politicians’ bosses should understand that they should behave with the same decency that we expect from bosses in a workplace?
The social contract is, after all, mutual.
