Tax system, cutting benefits and criminality as challenges of social and economic sustainability.
The prediction that the world will reach the SDG goals only in 2094 is very worrying. We would need to take quick and efficient actions worldwide.
It is clear wealthy countries need to support and invest in developing countries. But nevertheless, problems with social and economic areas are already appearing within wealthy countries. In Finland, which has been selected the world’s happiest country for many years, difference between rich and poor people are getting bigger, and the gap keeps on increasing. For example, the Finnish tax system includes inequity, helping rich to get richer, and forcing poor to get more poor. There are many grievances in the system that rich people can exploit legally, to achieve their own advantage.
Also, the new Finnish government's goal is not to get that gap between rich and poor even to slow down but encourage rich citizens. Cutting the benefits from low-income people will affect increasing criminality, depression, and hate. Therefore, it is increasing the country’s costs of preventing criminality, healthcare, and accommodation for the homeless. Also, people living in poverty in a wealthy country do not feel supported, and therefore it is difficult to think and live to further the SDG goals.
In Sweden criminality is getting already out of control. People living in the suburbs of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö do not feel basic needs such as safety in their environment. Sweden had in 2018 the highest number of gun deaths in Europe.
All this obviously affects counterproductively to achieve the SDG goals by 2030 as hoped.
Sources:
https://www.vero.fi/henkiloasiakkaat/omaisuus/sijoitukset/osingot/osingot-listaamattomasta-yhtiosta/