By: Dominik Štrakl
In ten years, the number of people earning up to the minimum wage has more than doubled – from 226,000 to 669,000. This is the result of a policy marketed as ‘fair,’ but which in reality systematically destroys the middle class and creates a state of dependency.
The minimum wage itself is not the problem. The problem is that more and more people remain trapped at the minimum because it is no longer worth breathing above it. Because every extra euro is quickly taken by the state. Because contributions, taxes, and bureaucracy have become a punishment for work.
That is why a €1,000 minimum wage is nothing more than left‑wing populism. It means nothing if more and more people are stuck at that amount and struggling to make it through the month due to high prices and heavy burdens. And then the same people tell us that taxes are not higher, they are just “fairer.” In their world, “fair” means they take more from you, give you less, and then explain that you should be grateful. For crumbs.
The middle class is shrinking. A decade ago it made up a quarter of the population; today it is barely a fifth. That means only one thing: the country is not developing, it is sliding downward. Wages are not rising, but offices and working groups are. Productivity is not rising, but tenders are. The quality of public services is not rising, but the propaganda telling us everything is wonderful certainly is.
This is the typical logic of the transitional left. First you suffocate the economy, then you cast yourself as the saviour. First you take from people, then you return crumbs as “assistance.” First you create a problem, then you establish a new working group to “address” it.
And anyone who points this out is immediately labelled problematic. Because in this system, you are not allowed to say that the emperor has no clothes. You are only allowed to repeat that this is “progress.”
What we have today is not progress. It is the deliberate pushing of Slovenia downward, so that more and more people become dependent on the state and fewer and fewer people are strong enough to ask: where is this money going, and who is living off it?
Ah, what a lovely Orwellian world. Except that here, the Ministry of Truth does not have one building, it has multiple tenders and “independent” explanations that always say the same thing: how beautiful this world is.
