@noonespecialtbh Nonsense. The whole fucking reason these countries even work despite being mostly exploitative Capitalist states is being able to take advantage of immigration for cheap labour.
Je kan ook volwassen worden in de 2de wereld oorlog. En als je dan joods ben groei je op in een concentratie kamp. Dus niet zo mauwen en klagen gewoon je best doen en er wat van maken.
Well, actually it wouldn't be the first time around. When the Golden Age ended, with the victory of the UK in the Anglo-Dutch wars would have been the first time, iinm?
Netherlands: we made bureaucratic agency to study the negative effects of bureaucracy and we found that we’re acting killing it and we should get more money
@TheWolf-rz4oz we know who should pay more taxes. Those that have been hoarding wealth and resources, living lower and middle class to work their asses off and still not being able to cover the costs of living.
Don’t forget the hidden tax called ‘inflation’ and of course shrink-flation: for example, education costs have tripled, while now 1/3 kids can’t spell Dutch correctly or do math properly (that was 1/20 before tripling of the costs).
@Albanez39 then why has it not been done. in any country. because it’s all lies. the reality is the poor from rich countries are taxed more and it’s given to the poor from poor countries
@Oscar_Armstrongas mentioned in the video, there is simpicimuss(I think that is it. some of the production crew is on here. all German) there is hex, looks to be a project, wonder what it is, there are others that I don't remember the name of right now
This looks like a graph made by an expert in our government. Everything can be explained in every possible way to provide a 'scientific' basis for policy. If every bar is green and the numbers are unreadable, the graph is always right, no matter what you are trying to say.
@610jrodIt in fact does. You have less money but more time to live your life. There’s little incentive for working more when most of it is taxed anyway.
If you believe everything our government and government sponsored media say, ofcourse your future is going to be doom and gloom. That is exactly what these governments will provide, more rules to prevent more freedom and economic activity. Instead of downsizing the government, they will grow bigger, like a cancer on society, eating up everything of value until nothing is left.
@pinobluevogel6458 it's not just government it's increasing income inequality. A big government isn't the end of the world because it can support small businesses. Gives income to local people. Look at the us and what happened the moment they cut something as simple as snap benefits. Many companies saw sharp declines. Not saying I'm advocating for big governments. But it's not the biggest issue. We see the same development globally. Elites will leave nothing to us.
@pinobluevogel6458 Look at where decades of "small government" put America. Now it's a fascist hellhole which doesn't mind burning 70 billion on government-funded terror groups, yet they still are unable to provide a decent education and healthcare for their people. It has nothing to do with the small or big government. Hell, many prosperous Western European countries were largely made prosperous by Social Democratic principles and a regulated, truly free market where services weren't mediocre cashgrabs, but an actual service to the public.
@匿名的-1 That is a misconception. The US government is absolutely massive. If you want an example of big government, that is it. I'm advocating for less centralized massive governments and moving towards small, effective localized governments. You can have free markets, but simply not in every field. Healthcare, public transportation and perhaps even cultural or artistic endeavors probably will never truly work and are the main thing you would want some amount of government for, especially if the control and checks and balances are with the populace. Also, you cannot really leave a free market unchecked once it gets unbalanced, it can slowly degrade and eventually no longer functions, which is what is currently the case. This lies with Government mainly, who allow monopolies to form and lobbying to influence decisionmaking, instead of protecting the needs of the public.
@pinobluevogel6458 You know, I'm actually glad you responded and clarified your standpoint, because I'm on your side. I'm sorry for my earlier ignorance and misunderstanding. I must say I agree with you. The US is indeed a big government involved in things they maybe shouldn't be involved in, and clearly lacking control in crucial areas where democratically imposed control is a must. I'd argue certain media corporations should be public/union-owned and their content should be critical of both sides. Like Deutsche Welle or the ORF and other broadcasters in Germany, Austria and such. Lobbying and monopolies are as bad as open corruption in my eyes. Just look at how AI and other tech companies bet on both sides during the election, too. It undermines the very principle of democracy and in an American point of view, robs people of a true alternative. Both of us know that the McCarthy era's Red Scare still has its effects. I'm even surprised someone like Mamdani managed to win with his openly socialistic leaning. They called him and Bernie dirty communists, traitors and such. I hope that more and more people will follow the New Yorkers' actions although seeing how Kamala and Newsom are both funded by some pro-AI lobby agency, I'm sceptical of true change. I'm Hungarian; my people are equally as weary of the left. We even had a more than 4-decade-long communist dictatorship, so it's somewhat understandable I guess. My country has been slowly gerrymandering for a decade now. The PM has the same Christian nationalist, borderline fascist platform like Donald Trump The country is littered with billboards that openly defame and character assassinates opposition figures. They're watching teachers and journalists with Israeli spy software and are now openly involved with the Intelligence Agency to set up a Russian-style "kompromat" against the leading opposition figure, Péter Magyar. It's really scary out here. Both nations need to have their rule of law strenghtened, unions made powerful, and this cancerous ideology paired with lobbying must perish once and for all.
I'm Dutch and I work part time and can tell you working full time would do nothing for adding value to the economy. It would mean making more reports that no one reads, making plans for a onedrive folder and holding meetings to make action points that are not going to be completed. I like my workplace and it's people and we have a lot of fun, but productivity overall is not great. I've worked in several marketing, sales and upper management roles and this story applies to all workplaces so far. We just don't really do anything, we just talk about it and hold positive feel-good meetings that don't actually accomplish anything. Most of the profit is the difference between price of goods (which are low because of low wage countries) and sales price here. I really don't get how we are - at the moment - all living such comfortable lives and are so relatively rich by adding so little. I mean I really like my life, but I truly wonder how I can afford the life I have on so minimal input. Of course there are other people here, but I know I'm not the only one secretly thinking this. Honestly falling a few spots in the global economic ranks would such but feel kind of justified.
@BanjoTownFan Dit is geen progressief beleid. Dit is regressief tegen jongeren. Ze hebben niet eens vastgoed opgenomen, en dat is juist de fundamentele oorzaak van ongelijkheid. Het is niet eens een goede vermogensbelasting, zelfs als dat de prioriteit was. Ik maak me best wel zorgen. Ik hecht veel waarde aan gelijkheid, en ik ben bang dat Nederland fundamenteel aan het veranderen is in een huisjesmelkersland (en dan heb ik het niet over mensen die bijdragen aan het huurwoningaanbod, maar over huiseigenaren die niet willen dat hun woningwaarde daalt.)
@Research_Chemical we aint going anywhere with those. We might die but the legacy of our recipes shall live on (plus i dont think this is going to be mass extinction anytime soon)
I'm an expat living in the Netherlands. I really love the country and wish for the best of it. People are nice, and the work culture is great. I do want to see it prosper.
And so you want to do nothing, then pretend to be shocked when serious collapse begins. Quick: have you already selected your scapegoat? The other political party? Russians? Americans? Jews?
I actually agree that the Netherlands is drifting in a dystopian direction as your title would suggest, but this video doesn’t really make that case. What you describe here is mostly economic stagnation. The dystopian part would be the growing surveillance, expanding bureaucracy, rising tax pressure, and mounting demographic pressures from large-scale migration. That’s a very different argument than the one being made.
Well maybe its time to ask yourself why does your economy even need large-scale migration in the first place? Is it maybe because native Dutch people prefer working part-time and consequently there are'nt enough workers to keep a stagnating economy afloat?
@LOKESHNAIK619 1: shit tax system, that's why people work part time (you get effectively taxed at over 50% on earnings above 25k). 2: They give migrants a giga tax deductible (30% tax ruling, you can deduct 30% of income from taxes you file), making them one of the few people motivated to work. 3: The people they get through ''large scale migration'' i.e. the huge amount of asylum seekers they just want their asylum application approved. After 12 weeks they get housing, housing rent deductible, income from state without working. The income is slightly below min wage. They don't work. Only like 15% of these people end up working and they cost a huge amount of money. Why do they want this? Beats me, incredibly high amount of corruption is the only explanation lmao.
it is because in the last 5 years EU had a radical intervention to stem covid, then Russian war which cost EU some $700 billion, last year gdp looked good until trump. Japan faced all 3 but it effects on it were less.
@majidmehmood3780the usa spends 700 billion every year on the military and printed even harder than us, yet is still doing better than Germany, Austria and other core EU members despite having a madman in charge. The EU is in a general long-term decline that started long before covid.
@majidmehmood3780 Don't forget about all the natural resources the US has vs the EU having basically none. They're keeping energy prices low thanks to domestic gas and oil. The EU even buys liquefied natural gas from the US, so...
@Mastoblood neehoor, voorbeeld: de OECD data haald de gemiddelde werkweek uit de werkende populatie en houd dus geen rekening met 2 belangrijke factoren; werkloosheid en arbeidsparticipatie. Nederland is "kampioen deeltijd werken" maar heeft ook een hele hoge arbeidsparticipatiegraad van vrouwen en lage werkloosheid. Houd daar rekening mee en ineens werken per hoofd van de bevolking meer dan bijvoorbeeld Frankrijk, Spanje, etc. Turkije staat bovenaan de lijst en hoewel mannen heel veel uren werken, werkt slechts 35% van de vrouwen. Wennink's rapport staat vol met onwaarheden, "spookdata" en lobby invloeden. Als werken moet lonen moet vermogensgroei belast worden, maar ondertussen ontslaat ASML nu wederom 1700 mensen en dreigen ze te vertrekken ondanks dat ze enorm veel subsidie krijgen en aan belastingontduiking doen zodat juist die dividend aan hun aandeelhouders hoger blijft.
Pay attention. Trump’s tariffs were not used to primarily protect US business. They were used to open foreign markets to US exports, or else. Protectionist tariffs lead to trade wars w rounds of increasing tariffs both sides. Other than initial posturing, that did not happen w the exception of China, which should be cut out if works trade. US exports are way up.
It worked rather well in the Netherlands, where a functional market (with competition) was being created. Phone and Internet services went from overpriced crap with few choices, to a wide array of affordable products and services. We enjoy some of the lowest price for electricity... or we would if it weren't for the taxes. Private health care providers have driven down costs and vastly improved the quality of care. Competition works well in those sectors. But in other areas, such as water companies and public transport, the picture is a lot bleaker. The lesson is clear: Public services should only be privatized if you can create a market with multiple competing players. If not (or if a monopoly emerges), the government ought to step in.
I think it's worth mentioning that the Netherlands is the world's third biggest agricultural exporter. This is an absolutely insane statistic when you think about how small the country is. This is also as a result of being future focussed and thinking ahead, of course the soil as well. I hope the Netherlands can continue to think about the future and act on it in the same way, which I think it can. Us Brits have done a pretty poor job of that over the last 40 years and are paying the price. You say the education is poor but most Dutch people I meet make me think otherwise, which makes me think there's a huge potential for the Netherlands to become global leaders across a range of industries in the future.
It's funny how pretty much every country sleepwalked into this aging crisis. They thought tax income would always keep coming. They didn't know people would age 🤣
people have children again when at the best child having age (which is 20-30, not 39) they have a reasonable economic situation and expectation for the future. Nowadays people have to wait until round 35 to get that and time for 1 child if at all. To solve the fertility decrease we would need a complete overhaul of how our worklife is organized over lifetime, and that would hurt so many money interests that it will not happen. Rather, the companies demand immigration, which eventually brings up the people against it at these levels and you get the current mess. (Work immigrant myself)
@marsanges6677 Meanwhile, the population is booming in countries with abject poverty. Don't get me wrong, there are multiple reasons for that, including cultural differences and attitudes around birth control and the like, but it still points to deeper problems. Something about modern society makes having children fundamentally difficult, even beyond cost. It could be our heavily regimented schedules. It could be our heavily regulated systems that make any life change difficult. And some of it could just be unrealistic expectations. It's a thorny issue.
@seasong7655 No Dutch politician has dared to touch the aging and pension subject. Because that would cost them a lot of votes from the baby boomer generation. And thus we failed to do anything meaningful for 20 years. Welcome to liberal democracy.
The problem with the hours worked by nurses in the Netherlands is that this does not account for the amount of paperwork, the hours worked per shift and the difficulty of healthcare in the Netherlands.
@tonymaltinie By the way, I don't know why teachers, who can go on strike without causing any issues, are considered underpaid and overworked. Meanwhile, they are the most validistic pieces of trash I know.
compliance has been introduced by people who have zero skills and as such were irrelevant. Now they've made themselves on top of the people who do actual work. There should be laws against compliance
It doesn’t count the paperwork? Are they not charting / completing paperwork while on the clock? And like, 12hr shifts are normal in healthcare. Just do 3x of those per week. Problem solved.
I agree with the general sentiment of the video. I do hate the constant harping on part time workers though, which is happening in Germany as well currently. I understand we maybe do it a bit excessively here in the Netherlands, and for sure the government should incentivize working more hours with more benefits, but currently in Germany they are full on thinking about not being able to call in sick by phone, 'because it can be abused', or other completely draconian methods to get people to work more. Idk what the situation over there is exactly (I am Dutch), but wtf is the point of all the money if you basically live to work, and aren't even trusted as an adult to call in sick when you are sick? You are treated like a dumb farm chicken that has to lay their eggs at all costs or it has no value. I understand we are losing ground economics wise, but lets start fixing that by incentivizing people to work more by providing benefits, not by punishing those that cannot work more because of children, health problems or whatever. Also, for once showing some balls and just making the tough decision on cases like nitrogen, and getting rid of all these dumb ass barriers we have within the EU itself, because if anything that is the largest blockage to our economic growth (EU wide). But no, we are constantly harping on part time workers as if they are sole cause of it, this video is guilty of that as well if you consider the time spent on each subject. Its a classic case of the rich men in suits saying the peasants should work more if you ask me, meanwhile stress and burn out levels are going through the roof around the world, both in the west and in China, Japan, Korea etc, at this point, what the fuck is the point of it all when the reward for more working more is even more stress?
You are starting to realise. It's the start of the return to feudalism. Ever heard of 'you will own nothing and be happy'? This is the direction of most Western nations. You are just a tool. Nations are nothing but big businesses now, it's no longer about "the people".
An economy where people are forced to work so much as to not be able to have children is a state that burns it's population to get wealth. That's why they insist so much that immigration is crucial, to get more fuel to burn.
I agree. Same thing happens in South Korea’ in the mid 20th century, yes they were very productive and yes it help drive the country into one of the most highs tech economies but at what cost? They have one of the highest poverty rate among old people, the ones who worked long hours but can not reap the benefits in the old age. I agree that the Netherlands is maybe too heavily regulated in some cases but we need to be careful because quality of life is much more important l.
@Fiiischinator It's not even about working more, with the birthrate at 0 or less, we can't keep eu countries running unless something major changes. Immigration is a temporary/bandaid solution in my opinion. And you can't get the birthrate higher unless it's much easier to live, so it's a downwards spiral.
This was a very well produced and calm video. As a Dane I find much of this also applies to Denmark. While Denmark doesn't have space constraints pretty much all of other issues are the same, even the debate about whether to tolerate wolves!
Yeah and I don't think the style has to totally change, shapes can be added to denote points, which can still fit the retro look while allowing more distinction.
There seems to be an inverse correlation between technology integration - specifically iPads and Chromebooks tied into curriculum - and literacy. People who actually enjoy reading tend to view both as inferior to books. We see this in the US as well. Reading scores fell off a cliff right as technology became ubiquitous. Slovakia, a poorer country likely has less tech integration.
Maybe, but it could also be because in richer countries kids are given phones much earlier and thus start doomscrolling also much earlier. Books are not as interesting as mobile phones, so kids read less. Ask any adult, I bet most read less nowadays. Or perhaps it's the focus on "competencies" or other modern educational bullcrap with reading instead of just being forced to read 10 books a year in school. There is something to be said for the old fashioned way of teaching math and literature. Also, kids need to learn how to deal with computers and technology. In their follow up education or work they will need to know. I teach computer class sometimes, and I think you'd be surprised how incredibly tech-illiterate kids are these days.
Look at the graph what kind of new...person shows up...and who these new kids are. Iq went down...height went down.. Aka not dutch kids. Become what you import
@AnjohlTennan yeah, ofcourse they are tech-illiterate! Its because they are becoming more and more illiterate and no longer learn comprehensive reading and critical reading skills Also, the new teachers themselves, coming from the PABO, dont bother to read the books they are required to teach the children Like the blind leading the blind...
(This is just my perspective.) I used to think reading was fun, then I had to 'read from the list'. As an adult now, I understand the incentive: Teens pick 8 Dutch books and a number of English books from a national compiled list of books. Books that important to history, to the culture. The student reads these books and then gets tested on their knowledge of them. Nothing killed my will to read faster than this list, because when you're in higher education you're not allowed to pick thrillers. You're not allowed to read books that you find interesting. And it's a sentiment I've heard often around me. And I understand that teachers cannot read every book in the library, but at least update the list and modernize it. Phones are banned in class or left in lockers, but it's true that tech has changed how Gen Z and Alpha interact with the world. "You won't always have a calculator in you're pocket," well now we do. A cashier doesn't have to calculate change themselves. Some things have been made easier for us, so we get lazy. Outside of 'six culture' where you can pass with a 5.5 on a test and some covid residuals, I'm not sure what causes the line to drop.
I will be honest, my school performance tanked with access to technology as a kid, but it allowed me to pursue fields school wouldn't be able to provide me entrance into. I got into programming from modding the pirated games on my school computer(very early in computer adoption, so we were ahead of the faculty in the cybersecurity arms race). When it came time for the robotics class, they were insufficient in actually teaching, being more of something they had so they could claim they had a class on it. This contributed to me going down a dark path, as I found other ways to occupy my time, which, while I was also just a bad kid, could've been prevented if they put some thought into how and what we were being taught as far as engagement was concerned.
As nice as the retro style looks, it makes the line charts difficult to read with the colors you have chosen. At 10:08, the colors are honestly pretty difficult to distinguish without spending a lot of time comparing.
Agreed! The low resolution was getting to me as well, but the colors were difficult to distinguish for me as well, and I'm not even colorblind. RIP anyone who is...
As a German, if that tax comes to us, it'll be my last straw, and that will be the point I'm leaving and sadly moving to the US... This is an attack on the middle class to disallow us to actually save for our retirement, shameful!
@CorgiEnjoyerYeah, the brightest minds of our house of representatives decided this is a good decision. If the senate approves, it'll be coming in 2028... Mind you, they already do this for landlords too...
Hoog must be living in Amsterdam with all the Dutch/AMS videos 😅. Making a video about the impact of the Tata Steel plant near Haarlem would be interesting to watch.
It doesn’t really sound like the Dutch work at all. Obviously that’s an exaggeration but my nurse working 26 hours a week is absurd from most other economies perspectives.
Was the amount of unpaid overtime and unmentioned overtime from healthcare workers, teachers and other services included? Because quite a few "part time" workers are not officially working full time, because it would overwork them. Most teachers and nurses I know that officaly work parttime, work on their days off as well, "it is expected" is what they claim as they work themselves into a burnout.
^ Tegenwoordig is het blijkbaar een te waanzinnig idee dat werkgevers eens hun voltijdse werknemers een leefbaar loon betalen. Pas dan zullen er minder mensen toeslagen nodig hebben om rond te komen.
@AG-xq9qg that's an issue with the system then. In the US as well, you lose benefits if you make over a certain amount which in turn would make you poorer. A negative income tax system would work better.
@cestaron634 Wat maakt het uit? Het is aan iedereen om te bepalen hoe iemand zijn leven inricht, dat ligt niet bij economen of industriegiganten en al helemaal niet bij de overheid. Als het écht zo nodig is om mensen meer dan part-time te laten werken, laat het dan ook lonend zijn en maak de kinderopvang gratis en reduceer belastingen. Een belastingvrije voet tot aan het median inkomen is sowieso een prima idee, dit stimuleert werken en zorgt er ook voor dat er minder mensen onder de armoedegrens leven en dat het weer gemakkelijker wordt rond te kunnen komen, iets wat een veel groter probleem is dan productiviteit op dit moment.
@AG-xq9qgthis is not necessarily true. Because I got no state benefits. It’s really stupid to discount the mental strain on payed empathy. But it think that’s another story. We are not al leaches.
I appreciate the focus on data, numbers, and factual information. However, it overlooks an important point: we’re talking about human beings, complex individuals shaped by psychological, social, and structural factors. The video also seems to suggest that our economic challenges stem mainly from everyday people not working hard enough or not performing well in school. This framing ignores the much larger issue: massive corporations and the wealthiest individuals extract a disproportionate share of resources, leaving fewer opportunities and weaker incentives for ordinary people. When so much economic power is concentrated at the top, it’s unrealistic to place the blame on individuals who are simply trying to get by.
No, it doesn't. The harsh reality is taxes are extremely high here to fund the welfare state. Why work 40 hours a week when you only make 200 euro more a month then being welfare? Why work a day more a week when that would mean you'd earn to much for get subsidies and end up paying more than a day's work for that good or service you got subsidies for? Our current welfare system actively incentivizes not working, even when you're willing and able. Meanwhile taxes to fund that need to increase and because politicians like getting votes they don't increase taxation on people or reduce welfare they increase taxes on businesses, taxing businesses means they need to offset those extra costs by increasing pricing, reduce hiring, stagnate wages, etc. which then allows politicians and voters to blame businesses and demand even more welfare only to start the cycle anew. At this point the average Dutch person pays roughly 80% tax of what they earn most of which goes directly to pay for the welfare system. (36~50% income tax, 9~21% VAT on top of that, and indirectly all those tax costs of running a business in everything you buy like import tax (~21%), fuel tax (30~40%), wage tax (35~50%) and the tax costs of their suppliers. Even without all the indirect taxes calculated in, if you're earning minimum wage you're already paying 45% effective tax minimum. And all of that is ignoring taxes like road tax, toll, alcohol tax, smoking tax, etc., etc. which isn't applicable to everyone. The economic power isn't concentrated at the top, it's concentrated in the government that desperately tries to fund a failing welfare state which in itself incentivizes decreasing output.
@relo999 Agreed. This is a huge problem and I can see it for myself in my family even. It has become routine to either work little or not at all. The work you do end up doing you do slowly and badly while complaining loudly. In the past I thought this was all just hyperbole by rich people being assholes but I am no rich person (I might be an asshole though). There is some truth to this.. Then again, repression and unfair treatment of workers was the historical norm so perhaps it is a compensatory movement. We’ll see. NGL, not too excited to be living here at the moment but that’s more to do with the populism, blatant racism and misogynist conservatism making a strange, unwelcome comeback.
@ip4pwn1The _size_ is infinite, not the mass and energy. As well as we cannot use all of those contents, obviously. So most things are practically finite, even if theoretically infinite like renewables(trees, fresh water, etc.)
Every country I thought about moving to in the future is going through a rough time right now. New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the UK and now The Netherlands😔
Kijk maar naar de verkiezingsuitslag en het regeerakkoord. Kon op voorhand al vertellen dat belastingdruk omhoog gaat, regelgeving meer wordt en werkenden verder genaaid
@jaekeau for me personally it's fine too. But not everyone has the same perception/filter when it comes to audio, so for some it might be harder to receive the actual important information. So if turning down the background sounds makes this reach more people, I'm all for it.
Apropos of nothing, I found the narration audio in this to be somewhat comforting on an emotional level. The content, terrifying. How it's delivered, sublime.
So its the dutch version of the Abundance movement? And the CEO's answer is... sell off public service for parts, stop the welfare state, and less regulations? This is just Thatcher and Reagan again, look to the UK for how well that turned out.
If you ask a CEO what's the problem with their country, you already know the answer, it's always too much regulation, too much welfare, not enough incentives to work.
Maybe governments should stop outsourcing manpower to Big Four consultancy firms. They order nothing, yet they take your breakfast, lunch, and dinner money, and you can do nothing about it.
The video more or less acknowledges that this is not a desirable solution. But the diagnosis isn't wrong and a more effective government willing to act would certainly help. However the current socio-political climate does not encourage this instead focussing on blaming certain minorities for the problems caused by decades of laissez-faire neoliberal politics. As long as people keep voting against their own best interest it's not going to change and I fear that we will irrevocably lose some things before we turn around.
Germany is a better example of austerity than Greece. Greece existed bailout programs in 2018 after TWO years of a balanced budget. And in aggregate has embraced deficit spending after 08
Reminder to everyone here that the last 30 years the VVD wasn’t a ruling party for 3.5 years… Our economy has grown immensely, yet all we do is lower taxes on the richest over the back of working people.
As a German it's wild that there are so many parallels to problems we also have here (inefficient bureaucracy, aging population), but then also see things like Germany apparently being very high in the STEM education graph when our entire education system is falling apart (like water leaking through roof in several schools, people not even learning to read properly, etc). The described hospital situation is also crazy to me - over here, nurses are working themselves to death and hospitals are still wayyy understaffed while in NL everyone's just working part time there??
i tried to do a quick check for german data and apparently it is the case that roughly 60% of nurses (PflegerInnen) are working a fulltime equivalent. Meaning 40% are working part time? Now what does "part time" mean? 30 hours per week? 35? 26? What about overtime which is apparently happening all the time but is not registered (according to my friends in the healtcare profession)? How many in part time are working in part time because their hospital cannot afford to pay more? If someone has reliable data please share. As I said - it was a quick search.
As an Aussie, it's actually feels similar here as well (though we're frankly awful at leveraging our STEM students for innovation partly because what is listed ahead.). We have a similar problem the Dutch are facing where the financial incentives by the tax system has meant our economy is incentising overinvestment in things like property and overfunding private schools at the cost of underfunding public ones (it took until last year for the government to even readjust against this balance). We simulatiously need lots of migration for nurses and teachers but can't stop the burn out our current staff are facing... We tax income way too much, and not enough for wealth.
Part of why there are so many part time workers is also because child care is very expensive. It is not worth working the extra day to then spend more on child care for that day 🤷♀️ Better for both parents to each have one different weekday off to care for their children and spend only 3 days a week on childcare. With the disappearance of the stay-at-home-housewife a long time ago (you need 2 incomes to make things go around) many parents nowadays have parents who are also both still working. If you are lucky maybe grandma also works 4 days a week and then you have to pay only for 2 days of child care.
Another issue is the system we've created that makes people addicted to subsidies and benefits schemes, this isn't the fault of Dutch Citizens; when you make a certain amount of money you lose out on different subsidies depending on your situation, for a lot of people they can simply work less hours and earn a bit less and be eligible for additional benefits. Working less = more net income per month when you receive these benefits.
What would work is a complete system without all the benefits. An AOW for everyone, without the toeslagen. So the Belastingdienst can ACTUALLY do what they were built for; taxing things and equalizing wealth. If everyone got an AOW, then there would be no need for kinderopvangtoeslag, or zorgtoeslag or huurtoeslag. The easiest way of avoiding another Toeslagenaffaire.The Werknemerskorting can also go then, because if you work you get taxed and since you already have an AOW, that's your korting A very unpopular idea amongst people. We also need to seriously start looking into taxing wealth. Not the simple "someone has a million in the bank" type of wealth, but the top 500 people now own 8.9% of all wealth in the NL. Because the current ceiling of when we get taxed is actually TOO LOW in order to actually be beneficial to the economy. Hell, you can only keep 50K on the bank before you get taxed. And we shouldn't invest so much in defence, it will be the killer of the healthcare system we have in the NL. Another crazy idea, even though I think it's easy creating a Russian enemy that's bogged down for almost 4 years in Ukraine without any prospects of "winning" and invading NATO anytime soon. And another insane idea; we need to have more government, nationalized services again. Government controlled healthcare, government controlled public transport The Thacher/Reagan movement only made everything worse. Even the freaking Police needs to run a "Profit" these days
Thank early-to-mid 20th-century politicians in the Netherlands for this. European counterparts encouraged women to earn their own money. Dutch politicians insisted women to forfeit basic rights as even having your own bank account.
@Swat_Dennisdon’t pay for self defense lose sovereignty. Your airspace, open sea lanes. All gone. How about the internet? You are a vassal state of the US.
@Swat_Dennis "The Thacher/Reagan movement only made everything worse" We've never had that. We have had a system that worships the welfare state above all else. Even the "privatized" government services you mention are still in full control of the government and have been for the last 8 decades, but instead of you paying tax to get it you pay for it directly, and even then most of those are still partially tax funded as they consistently lose money (because the government also controls pricing) and then the tax payer still needs to fund them. The reason the police need to "profit" is to fund the failing welfare state. Expanding the welfare state isn't a solution to an overblown and costly welfare state.
The only real problem here is the population issue and it's very hard to imagine solving that via economic growth -- either you take immigrants or you cut the benefit levels for the old (not really many other choices). Besides the population issue, it doesn't really matter if you aren't growing as fast as other countries because -- holding fixed the current qualify or even just improving less quickly -- your services don't become more expensive over time unless wages rise. If you'd prefer to just keep your current standard of living rather than be pushed into working longer you can just do that. But you need to face the population issue.
We need the immigrants to work, we don't need the elderly, they only cost money, especially baby boomers... and yet baby boomers are the richest group in our country...
@noonespecialtbhplease explain the issue of ‘over immigration’. Yes the UK has issues. That’s why I want to see an unbiased and informed assessment of it.
Scenario: the economy is slowed down by excessive taxes and bureaucracy. Politicians reaction: we shall solve this by increasing taxes and bureaucracy.
The real problem in Netherlands is that it's living off of a pyramid scheme that puts the bill on the younger gen. Just 30 years ago you could get a mortgage "aflossingsvrij" i.e. without needing to pay back, only the interest. Then the government introduced a hefty interest deductible on your income, making debt insanely cheap. The houses went up a lot, boomers profited off of it. But currently housing is unaffordable to young people having a job. Almost everyone is pushing into social housing, but social housing is decreased and illegal migrants who get a permit of residence skip the 8-12 year queue and only need to wait a few weeks for housing. Also all women work part time because it really isn't worth it to work full time. If you work part time, make 25k euro you barely get taxed and get a ton of benefits. If you go from 25k to 50k (i.e. from like 20 hours to 40 hours on a slightly above average wage), you only earn like 10kish more in the bottom line. It's because you lose a bunch of benefits, your ''arbeidskorting'' and ''loonheffingskorting'' decrease (complicated tax formula) and you effectively pay around 50% taxes. This has been an intentional choice. The tax system is a political choice. It's total dogshit and only migrant workers are wanted here, since they get a 30% deductible and can use that to pay the very high rents here. Who is really motivated to work for this shit? Taxes are also insane. The difference between earning 35k and sitting in social housing and earning 90k a year without social housing is actually almost nothing. It's insane, I don't know any other country like this. Also ASML pays doodoo shit for the majority of their roles, of course they're looking to hire migrants very cheaply (at ASML you make much less than the public sector, much less than the banks, much less than some bigger tech companies like Booking).
It bears repeating, “the US innovates, China imitates and the EU regulates”. If the EU doesn’t stop regulating new tech in the guise of protecting the people, they will continue to fall behind.
That "financial oracle" they called in to do the research and come with solutions, comes with solutions that are still entirely rooted in a neoliberal framework. Its this way of thinking that doesn't work anymore.
Love the videos, big fan. One request: please drop new videos with good English language captions. This one defaulted to Dutch and the autogenerated ones aren’t great - overlapping the translation captions on my tv too. Please consider accessibility ❤
As a greek working in Eindhoven, I think these are problems that the netherlands cannot solve on their own. This is the 2nd alarm bell for the need of EU restructuring. The 1st was in 2008 crisis but no one seemed to be listening at the time.
Restructuring?? You mean dismantling. The EU is destroying Europe. The vast majority o European economies has barely grown at all in the last 25 years, that is utterly catastrophic
Have you considered that the drop off of educational attainment may have something to do with the fact that fewer and fewer of the children educated are actually Dutch?
De overheid kan veel doen om te besparen, zonder te bezuinigen. Denk aan open source software gaan gebruiken, taken (zoals aanvragen) versnellen met AI (zeker in onderwijs), minder voordelen voor ambtenaren, zelf nadenken en zelf verantwoordelijkheid durven nemen op beslissingen (ipv alle beslissingen laten maken door 'commissies' en 'consultants'), en bekijken hoe het taken kan uitvoeren op een manier die voor iedereen geld bespaard, in plaats van alleen op de situatie toezien.
It's scary to see these trends and different perspectives next to each other. To think that turning a couple of dials would solve things, I'd love that. But the information from this video gives me the idea that the powers that be are more a result of our choices, rather than shaping our choices. For example: the nurses who work part time.. The things I hear from people who work in Healthcare, make me think they NEED that part time just to stay afloat. One after the other is going into burnout. Staff shortages seems to be the number one cause, which makes colleagues jump in and patch holes, leading to working harder. Honestly.. The people who work in healthcare are to be treated like saints, and protected from our system failures (which seem to originate from the idea that everybody is responsible for themselves). Anyway.. I do think there is a way forward, but it's going to involve a lot more collaboration and caring for each other.
The healthcare workers were "heroes" during the pandemic, now it's fashionable to crap on them again. Amazing. Normally it's the old who give life advice to the young, but if I could give Dutch boomers one piece of advice, it would be to really invest in relationships with their children and grandchildren. Maybe they'll take you in. Or if you must spend the inheritance, invest it in your end-of-life care, because I don't see how this system is going to survive in 30 years unless robots can manage it by that time.
7:56 Nuclear power is the solution for electricity that doesn’t take space. It’s as clean as offshore wind, takes the least amount of mining and materials compared to the other clean energy sources, and takes the least amount of space.
@VipaldiIt's not a matter whether the waste is clean or not, it's how you store it and then incinerate it. Your question would've made sense before the invention of a nuclear power plant, however we've already been using it for decades, including the proper procedure of waste management.
Being French and living in the UK, except maybe the severe lack of space, I highly recognize the situation of my two countries in your description. School performance dropping, part time economy, NIMBY-ism everywhere, nothing can be built, expensive energy, and extremely high bureaucracy.
Big part of the government is also that the people don't really want to stay in the country anymore, the move either to Spain or just somewhere comfortable, and Eastern Eu workers also don't really want to stay because of the artificial way of living. for the ppl who want to make companies its also impossible, first of all the competition is vicious they don't have ethics and morals anymore, so newcomers suffer, not even gonna mention high taxes and the impossible way to sustain everything. another part is just taking the lazy refugees and paying for them, they don't give nothing back. and they are multiple generations of them here now, who exploit other ppl who just want to work and make living. greed is killing this country.
@Yuvi-on5ge Good? Less of them around means their lobby weakens and maybe we can stop passing laws that squeezes the middle class so the rich can keep more of their money
Recently, I've been actively switching to European based companies: www.odoo.com/r/HeoF
This is something that more people should start thinking about.
europe may be declining but immigration isnt a solution its only made everything worse
@noonespecialtbh Nonsense. The whole fucking reason these countries even work despite being mostly exploitative Capitalist states is being able to take advantage of immigration for cheap labour.
@iddkonr the culture dies though especially with immigration from africa or south/west asia
@iddkonr and like, taking advantage of people is bad too-
We will reduce Bureaucracy by creating a Government organization to study the negative effects of Bureaucracy.
You mean DOGE? (Dutch Organisatie voor Gouvernement Efficiëntie)?? 🤔
W Clippy
But first we will have to form a subcommittee to explore the effects of bureaucratic expansion
The easiest way to reduce bureaucracy is getting rid of most, if not all of government.
@achyuthan90😂😂Elon Musk genius?
Nederland wanneer t mijn beurt is om volwassen te worden:
Just tax more and spend more! It'll solve everything, everyone knows that 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Je kan ook volwassen worden in de 2de wereld oorlog.
En als je dan joods ben groei je op in een concentratie kamp.
Dus niet zo mauwen en klagen gewoon je best doen en er wat van maken.
Dit is al jaren bezig..
@Byebye12345bye Das wel leuk, maar tijdens de 2e wereld oorlog was uitroeing van de mensheid geen dreiging. Nu wel.
Ek glo hulle sal n pad voorentoe vind. Staan vas broers en susters. Groete van Suid Afrieka.
Netherlands: My country is dying! 😭 Balkans: First time?
Well, actually it wouldn't be the first time around. When the Golden Age ended, with the victory of the UK in the Anglo-Dutch wars would have been the first time, iinm?
I went outside and no, the roads, the lanterns, the houses, all were alive and well.
@nowave7 Haha. Remember Chatham, the raid on the Medway?
You opened your boarders to the third world...
@ColaBoyEdits As a Slovak I'd take "Dutch not ideal" to anything we ever had in our history.
Netherlands: we made bureaucratic agency to study the negative effects of bureaucracy and we found that we’re acting killing it and we should get more money
the answer to taxes that are too high is to raise taxes apparently.
@TheWolf-rz4oz we know who should pay more taxes. Those that have been hoarding wealth and resources, living lower and middle class to work their asses off and still not being able to cover the costs of living.
Don’t forget the hidden tax called ‘inflation’ and of course shrink-flation: for example, education costs have tripled, while now 1/3 kids can’t spell Dutch correctly or do math properly (that was 1/20 before tripling of the costs).
@Albanez39 Communism has been tried many times, 100 million deaths proves it’s not the best solution.
@Albanez39 then why has it not been done. in any country. because it’s all lies. the reality is the poor from rich countries are taxed more and it’s given to the poor from poor countries
@1ndividuation web.stanford.edu/class/polisci120a/immigration/Federal%20Tax%20Brackets.pdf
First time hoog says something bad about fietsland
@HugoA220jawel!
@HugoA220 about time
Sure I've heard about the housing problem before
@TypowyLaman is that true? And if so, where do I find this?
@TypowyLaman Every big channel on youtube is now private equity.
Hoog, the creator team that produces more channels than most channels produce videos
Why is that?
@HelduikerJon Hoog's team and him are producers and work on like i thing 5 or 6 channels
@frogsbutfrogs What are the other channels except for fern?
@Oscar_Armstrong I'd love to know to. Only other one I know of is the one 'Ruis' he mentioned in the video, but unfortunately I do not speak Dutch x_x
@Oscar_Armstrongas mentioned in the video, there is simpicimuss(I think that is it. some of the production crew is on here. all German) there is hex, looks to be a project, wonder what it is, there are others that I don't remember the name of right now
We zijn gekookt
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Same 🇦🇹 🤝 🇳🇱
Language: 0% Understanding: 100%
i love how i don't have to translate to understand exactly what your're saying.
This is like “we hebben een serieus probleem.” 😂
I knew things were bad, I’ve been feeling it for years. But this video fills me with a kind of despair I’ve not known yet.
"We will have to cut costs on [ insert anything but politicians and extraordinary wages ] "
Classic!
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Your graph color choice for the lines is difficult to differentiate.
"You can see they used this color when they claimed it is this other nearly exact, but totally different color."
This looks like a graph made by an expert in our government. Everything can be explained in every possible way to provide a 'scientific' basis for policy. If every bar is green and the numbers are unreadable, the graph is always right, no matter what you are trying to say.
On min brightness in a dark room I thought I was going mad
Perhaps intentional, makes one pause and study the charts more thoroughly, at least I did.
@stevendesmond2685 watching on a relatively new Samsung TV and still the same issue. It should be easy to solve, just tweak it
Working doesn't pay. That's this whole video summarized in 1 sentence.
Tax wealth not work.
@StimpsonJCat-d7e Wealth just get away even so box 3 rules is horrible making more faults in long term
@StimpsonJCat-d7e Look into LVT. Tax extraction not production!
@CaptainMug working part-time doesn't pay for a full-time lifestyle is more accurate
@610jrodIt in fact does. You have less money but more time to live your life. There’s little incentive for working more when most of it is taxed anyway.
Nothing like a nice positive message to lighten up the day. Thanks Hoog 😂
If you believe everything our government and government sponsored media say, ofcourse your future is going to be doom and gloom. That is exactly what these governments will provide, more rules to prevent more freedom and economic activity. Instead of downsizing the government, they will grow bigger, like a cancer on society, eating up everything of value until nothing is left.
@pinobluevogel6458 it's not just government it's increasing income inequality. A big government isn't the end of the world because it can support small businesses. Gives income to local people. Look at the us and what happened the moment they cut something as simple as snap benefits. Many companies saw sharp declines.
Not saying I'm advocating for big governments. But it's not the biggest issue. We see the same development globally. Elites will leave nothing to us.
@pinobluevogel6458 Look at where decades of "small government" put America. Now it's a fascist hellhole which doesn't mind burning 70 billion on government-funded terror groups, yet they still are unable to provide a decent education and healthcare for their people. It has nothing to do with the small or big government. Hell, many prosperous Western European countries were largely made prosperous by Social Democratic principles and a regulated, truly free market where services weren't mediocre cashgrabs, but an actual service to the public.
@匿名的-1 That is a misconception. The US government is absolutely massive. If you want an example of big government, that is it. I'm advocating for less centralized massive governments and moving towards small, effective localized governments.
You can have free markets, but simply not in every field. Healthcare, public transportation and perhaps even cultural or artistic endeavors probably will never truly work and are the main thing you would want some amount of government for, especially if the control and checks and balances are with the populace.
Also, you cannot really leave a free market unchecked once it gets unbalanced, it can slowly degrade and eventually no longer functions, which is what is currently the case. This lies with Government mainly, who allow monopolies to form and lobbying to influence decisionmaking, instead of protecting the needs of the public.
@pinobluevogel6458 You know, I'm actually glad you responded and clarified your standpoint, because I'm on your side. I'm sorry for my earlier ignorance and misunderstanding. I must say I agree with you.
The US is indeed a big government involved in things they maybe shouldn't be involved in, and clearly lacking control in crucial areas where democratically imposed control is a must. I'd argue certain media corporations should be public/union-owned and their content should be critical of both sides. Like Deutsche Welle or the ORF and other broadcasters in Germany, Austria and such. Lobbying and monopolies are as bad as open corruption in my eyes. Just look at how AI and other tech companies bet on both sides during the election, too. It undermines the very principle of democracy and in an American point of view, robs people of a true alternative. Both of us know that the McCarthy era's Red Scare still has its effects. I'm even surprised someone like Mamdani managed to win with his openly socialistic leaning. They called him and Bernie dirty communists, traitors and such. I hope that more and more people will follow the New Yorkers' actions although seeing how Kamala and Newsom are both funded by some pro-AI lobby agency, I'm sceptical of true change. I'm Hungarian; my people are equally as weary of the left. We even had a more than 4-decade-long communist dictatorship, so it's somewhat understandable I guess. My country has been slowly gerrymandering for a decade now. The PM has the same Christian nationalist, borderline fascist platform like Donald Trump The country is littered with billboards that openly defame and character assassinates opposition figures. They're watching teachers and journalists with Israeli spy software and are now openly involved with the Intelligence Agency to set up a Russian-style "kompromat" against the leading opposition figure, Péter Magyar. It's really scary out here. Both nations need to have their rule of law strenghtened, unions made powerful, and this cancerous ideology paired with lobbying must perish once and for all.
I'm Dutch and I work part time and can tell you working full time would do nothing for adding value to the economy. It would mean making more reports that no one reads, making plans for a onedrive folder and holding meetings to make action points that are not going to be completed. I like my workplace and it's people and we have a lot of fun, but productivity overall is not great.
I've worked in several marketing, sales and upper management roles and this story applies to all workplaces so far. We just don't really do anything, we just talk about it and hold positive feel-good meetings that don't actually accomplish anything. Most of the profit is the difference between price of goods (which are low because of low wage countries) and sales price here. I really don't get how we are - at the moment - all living such comfortable lives and are so relatively rich by adding so little. I mean I really like my life, but I truly wonder how I can afford the life I have on so minimal input.
Of course there are other people here, but I know I'm not the only one secretly thinking this.
Honestly falling a few spots in the global economic ranks would such but feel kind of justified.
Dit is de economie de hele wereld over, makker.
And the Dutch just passed a 36% Tax on Unrealized Gains! Who is going to want to invest there??
Absolutely moronic policy
ja joh laten we de allerrijksten nog meer cadeautjes geven terwijl het verschil tussen arm en rijk groter is dan ooit na 4 kabinetten rutte
@JohannKonig1 this CEO did the interview to influence the elections
Achterlijk beleid, teken de petitie.
@BanjoTownFan Dit is geen progressief beleid. Dit is regressief tegen jongeren. Ze hebben niet eens vastgoed opgenomen, en dat is juist de fundamentele oorzaak van ongelijkheid. Het is niet eens een goede vermogensbelasting, zelfs als dat de prioriteit was. Ik maak me best wel zorgen. Ik hecht veel waarde aan gelijkheid, en ik ben bang dat Nederland fundamenteel aan het veranderen is in een huisjesmelkersland (en dan heb ik het niet over mensen die bijdragen aan het huurwoningaanbod, maar over huiseigenaren die niet willen dat hun woningwaarde daalt.)
Please no… I need Uptempo Music and Stroopwaffles in my life… 😭😭😭
@Research_Chemical you gotta fight for your right to spekulaas!
@Research_Chemical we aint going anywhere with those. We might die but the legacy of our recipes shall live on (plus i dont think this is going to be mass extinction anytime soon)
Ja vast
man of cullture
@nastiestNate LMAO
The guy with the blue paint samples is the quintessential home owners association board director.
It's actually his house that got criticized for the wrong paint job
@hoog-youtubeja begreep ik al, maar het is zo kleinzerig 😅
Those HOAs are abundant and quite militant about paint and all kind of other nonsense in the US, too.
@erikkzverschrikkelijk
@erikkzhet mooiste woord hiervoor blijft 'mierenneuken'
11:08 Slovakia mentioned 💪💪💪 (that bad, huh?)
Yep we are that bad
@kwookingman just wait until us Bulgarians get mentioned - I assume it will be in 2030 based on this video
We live in a wonderful time where all three branches of government have resigned ❤
its the serbian hungary?
@kwookingman cheer up :D
I'm an expat living in the Netherlands. I really love the country and wish for the best of it. People are nice, and the work culture is great. I do want to see it prosper.
And so you want to do nothing, then pretend to be shocked when serious collapse begins. Quick: have you already selected your scapegoat? The other political party? Russians? Americans? Jews?
What is the difference between an "expat" and an "immigrant"?
I actually agree that the Netherlands is drifting in a dystopian direction as your title would suggest, but this video doesn’t really make that case. What you describe here is mostly economic stagnation. The dystopian part would be the growing surveillance, expanding bureaucracy, rising tax pressure, and mounting demographic pressures from large-scale migration. That’s a very different argument than the one being made.
Without a controversial title to the video no clicks. You are correct it's not yet moving towards a dystopian society.
Well maybe its time to ask yourself why does your economy even need large-scale migration in the first place? Is it maybe because native Dutch people prefer working part-time and consequently there are'nt enough workers to keep a stagnating economy afloat?
@LOKESHNAIK619 Within a decade so many jobs are getting obsolete due to ai and the first robots that a shortage in workforce is laughable.
@LOKESHNAIK619 You really think these migrants work? or do they just leach off the amazing welfare benefits that were meant for the Dutch people?
@LOKESHNAIK619
1: shit tax system, that's why people work part time (you get effectively taxed at over 50% on earnings above 25k).
2: They give migrants a giga tax deductible (30% tax ruling, you can deduct 30% of income from taxes you file), making them one of the few people motivated to work.
3: The people they get through ''large scale migration'' i.e. the huge amount of asylum seekers they just want their asylum application approved. After 12 weeks they get housing, housing rent deductible, income from state without working. The income is slightly below min wage. They don't work. Only like 15% of these people end up working and they cost a huge amount of money. Why do they want this? Beats me, incredibly high amount of corruption is the only explanation lmao.
"You should also subsribe. Or don't... It's fine" is the most Dutch thing I've ever heard 🤣
i live in holand and never heard someone say that, probably swearing with cancer is the most dutch thing iv heard
@natsirt737 Steen'd
That's why I didn't subscribe. 😂
@natsirt737 doe rustig
@natsirt737 Ik denk dat betrokkene vooral de 'i dont control you' mentaliteit van 'ons' bedoelt 😊
Unbelievable that the EU's gdp growth is slower than JAPAN which is the poster child of a dying and aging economy
Probably because the working people in Japan are literally working themselves to (redacted)
it is because in the last 5 years EU had a radical intervention to stem covid, then Russian war which cost EU some $700 billion, last year gdp looked good until trump. Japan faced all 3 but it effects on it were less.
@majidmehmood3780the usa spends 700 billion every year on the military and printed even harder than us, yet is still doing better than Germany, Austria and other core EU members despite having a madman in charge.
The EU is in a general long-term decline that started long before covid.
@se4ring USD is the reserve currency of the WORLD. EU doesn't have that privilege. Also remove AI and US gdp growth is 0.1-.3%.
@majidmehmood3780 Don't forget about all the natural resources the US has vs the EU having basically none. They're keeping energy prices low thanks to domestic gas and oil. The EU even buys liquefied natural gas from the US, so...
We staan weer goed op 😭
Aare we foer reel ? Leik, aare you seerius ?
het ergste is het is nog eens waar ook
@reversal we stand! We are gooned up!
Wat een gaaf land hebben we toch.
Lol
@Mastoblood neehoor, voorbeeld: de OECD data haald de gemiddelde werkweek uit de werkende populatie en houd dus geen rekening met 2 belangrijke factoren; werkloosheid en arbeidsparticipatie. Nederland is "kampioen deeltijd werken" maar heeft ook een hele hoge arbeidsparticipatiegraad van vrouwen en lage werkloosheid. Houd daar rekening mee en ineens werken per hoofd van de bevolking meer dan bijvoorbeeld Frankrijk, Spanje, etc.
Turkije staat bovenaan de lijst en hoewel mannen heel veel uren werken, werkt slechts 35% van de vrouwen.
Wennink's rapport staat vol met onwaarheden, "spookdata" en lobby invloeden. Als werken moet lonen moet vermogensgroei belast worden, maar ondertussen ontslaat ASML nu wederom 1700 mensen en dreigen ze te vertrekken ondanks dat ze enorm veel subsidie krijgen en aan belastingontduiking doen zodat juist die dividend aan hun aandeelhouders hoger blijft.
Sounds like some Reaganomics incoming
Pay attention. Trump’s tariffs were not used to primarily protect US business. They were used to open foreign markets to US exports, or else. Protectionist tariffs lead to trade wars w rounds of increasing tariffs both sides. Other than initial posturing, that did not happen w the exception of China, which should be cut out if works trade. US exports are way up.
Selling state owned enterprises didn't really work out in Sweden, quality went down, price went up across the board andall profits went abroad.
Wealthy people are then running away after seeing rising crime.
@dimplick a tale as old as time.
always the diagnosis is more neoliberalism as if that hasn't been the policy for the past 50 years.
It worked rather well in the Netherlands, where a functional market (with competition) was being created. Phone and Internet services went from overpriced crap with few choices, to a wide array of affordable products and services. We enjoy some of the lowest price for electricity... or we would if it weren't for the taxes. Private health care providers have driven down costs and vastly improved the quality of care. Competition works well in those sectors. But in other areas, such as water companies and public transport, the picture is a lot bleaker.
The lesson is clear: Public services should only be privatized if you can create a market with multiple competing players. If not (or if a monopoly emerges), the government ought to step in.
Same in Belgium.
I think it's worth mentioning that the Netherlands is the world's third biggest agricultural exporter. This is an absolutely insane statistic when you think about how small the country is. This is also as a result of being future focussed and thinking ahead, of course the soil as well. I hope the Netherlands can continue to think about the future and act on it in the same way, which I think it can. Us Brits have done a pretty poor job of that over the last 40 years and are paying the price. You say the education is poor but most Dutch people I meet make me think otherwise, which makes me think there's a huge potential for the Netherlands to become global leaders across a range of industries in the future.
8:45 "But in Holland it's a literal Dutch oven" is one of the truest and funniest things I've heard on this channel! Bravo! 👌🏼😎
3:09 looked down at my suitcase of Budweiser and got offended
11:00 JUST SITTING HERE AND WAITING TO ADDRESS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
@JanTadeusz87 literally behind every single euro countries decline
It's funny how pretty much every country sleepwalked into this aging crisis. They thought tax income would always keep coming. They didn't know people would age 🤣
people have children again when at the best child having age (which is 20-30, not 39) they have a reasonable economic situation and expectation for the future. Nowadays people have to wait until round 35 to get that and time for 1 child if at all. To solve the fertility decrease we would need a complete overhaul of how our worklife is organized over lifetime, and that would hurt so many money interests that it will not happen. Rather, the companies demand immigration, which eventually brings up the people against it at these levels and you get the current mess. (Work immigrant myself)
Kicking the can down the road, situational populism is bound to cause complications
@marsanges6677 Meanwhile, the population is booming in countries with abject poverty.
Don't get me wrong, there are multiple reasons for that, including cultural differences and attitudes around birth control and the like, but it still points to deeper problems. Something about modern society makes having children fundamentally difficult, even beyond cost. It could be our heavily regimented schedules. It could be our heavily regulated systems that make any life change difficult. And some of it could just be unrealistic expectations. It's a thorny issue.
Didn't know or Didn't care?
@seasong7655 No Dutch politician has dared to touch the aging and pension subject. Because that would cost them a lot of votes from the baby boomer generation. And thus we failed to do anything meaningful for 20 years. Welcome to liberal democracy.
The problem with the hours worked by nurses in the Netherlands is that this does not account for the amount of paperwork, the hours worked per shift and the difficulty of healthcare in the Netherlands.
Same for teachers
@tonymaltinie Not to the same extent.
@tonymaltinie By the way, I don't know why teachers, who can go on strike without causing any issues, are considered underpaid and overworked. Meanwhile, they are the most validistic pieces of trash I know.
compliance has been introduced by people who have zero skills and as such were irrelevant. Now they've made themselves on top of the people who do actual work.
There should be laws against compliance
It doesn’t count the paperwork? Are they not charting / completing paperwork while on the clock? And like, 12hr shifts are normal in healthcare. Just do 3x of those per week. Problem solved.
I agree with the general sentiment of the video. I do hate the constant harping on part time workers though, which is happening in Germany as well currently. I understand we maybe do it a bit excessively here in the Netherlands, and for sure the government should incentivize working more hours with more benefits, but currently in Germany they are full on thinking about not being able to call in sick by phone, 'because it can be abused', or other completely draconian methods to get people to work more. Idk what the situation over there is exactly (I am Dutch), but wtf is the point of all the money if you basically live to work, and aren't even trusted as an adult to call in sick when you are sick? You are treated like a dumb farm chicken that has to lay their eggs at all costs or it has no value. I understand we are losing ground economics wise, but lets start fixing that by incentivizing people to work more by providing benefits, not by punishing those that cannot work more because of children, health problems or whatever. Also, for once showing some balls and just making the tough decision on cases like nitrogen, and getting rid of all these dumb ass barriers we have within the EU itself, because if anything that is the largest blockage to our economic growth (EU wide). But no, we are constantly harping on part time workers as if they are sole cause of it, this video is guilty of that as well if you consider the time spent on each subject.
Its a classic case of the rich men in suits saying the peasants should work more if you ask me, meanwhile stress and burn out levels are going through the roof around the world, both in the west and in China, Japan, Korea etc, at this point, what the fuck is the point of it all when the reward for more working more is even more stress?
You are starting to realise. It's the start of the return to feudalism. Ever heard of 'you will own nothing and be happy'? This is the direction of most Western nations. You are just a tool. Nations are nothing but big businesses now, it's no longer about "the people".
An economy where people are forced to work so much as to not be able to have children is a state that burns it's population to get wealth. That's why they insist so much that immigration is crucial, to get more fuel to burn.
I agree. Same thing happens in South Korea’ in the mid 20th century, yes they were very productive and yes it help drive the country into one of the most highs tech economies but at what cost? They have one of the highest poverty rate among old people, the ones who worked long hours but can not reap the benefits in the old age. I agree that the Netherlands is maybe too heavily regulated in some cases but we need to be careful because quality of life is much more important l.
@Fiiischinator It's not even about working more, with the birthrate at 0 or less, we can't keep eu countries running unless something major changes. Immigration is a temporary/bandaid solution in my opinion. And you can't get the birthrate higher unless it's much easier to live, so it's a downwards spiral.
@JW20236 and you wonder why americans want to keep their firearms
The dutch economoy may have it's problems but there are many countries I would think of before the netherlands when it comes to a "dystopia" lol
This was a very well produced and calm video. As a Dane I find much of this also applies to Denmark. While Denmark doesn't have space constraints pretty much all of other issues are the same, even the debate about whether to tolerate wolves!
The vintage/CRT stylised graphs and reports have a nice aesthetic to them, but they make it unnecessarily harder to read!
Yeah and I don't think the style has to totally change, shapes can be added to denote points, which can still fit the retro look while allowing more distinction.
There seems to be an inverse correlation between technology integration - specifically iPads and Chromebooks tied into curriculum - and literacy. People who actually enjoy reading tend to view both as inferior to books. We see this in the US as well. Reading scores fell off a cliff right as technology became ubiquitous. Slovakia, a poorer country likely has less tech integration.
Maybe, but it could also be because in richer countries kids are given phones much earlier and thus start doomscrolling also much earlier. Books are not as interesting as mobile phones, so kids read less. Ask any adult, I bet most read less nowadays. Or perhaps it's the focus on "competencies" or other modern educational bullcrap with reading instead of just being forced to read 10 books a year in school. There is something to be said for the old fashioned way of teaching math and literature. Also, kids need to learn how to deal with computers and technology. In their follow up education or work they will need to know. I teach computer class sometimes, and I think you'd be surprised how incredibly tech-illiterate kids are these days.
Look at the graph what kind of new...person shows up...and who these new kids are.
Iq went down...height went down..
Aka not dutch kids.
Become what you import
@AnjohlTennan yeah, ofcourse they are tech-illiterate!
Its because they are becoming more and more illiterate and no longer learn comprehensive reading and critical reading skills
Also, the new teachers themselves, coming from the PABO, dont bother to read the books they are required to teach the children
Like the blind leading the blind...
(This is just my perspective.) I used to think reading was fun, then I had to 'read from the list'. As an adult now, I understand the incentive: Teens pick 8 Dutch books and a number of English books from a national compiled list of books. Books that important to history, to the culture.
The student reads these books and then gets tested on their knowledge of them.
Nothing killed my will to read faster than this list, because when you're in higher education you're not allowed to pick thrillers. You're not allowed to read books that you find interesting. And it's a sentiment I've heard often around me.
And I understand that teachers cannot read every book in the library, but at least update the list and modernize it.
Phones are banned in class or left in lockers, but it's true that tech has changed how Gen Z and Alpha interact with the world. "You won't always have a calculator in you're pocket," well now we do. A cashier doesn't have to calculate change themselves. Some things have been made easier for us, so we get lazy.
Outside of 'six culture' where you can pass with a 5.5 on a test and some covid residuals, I'm not sure what causes the line to drop.
I will be honest, my school performance tanked with access to technology as a kid, but it allowed me to pursue fields school wouldn't be able to provide me entrance into. I got into programming from modding the pirated games on my school computer(very early in computer adoption, so we were ahead of the faculty in the cybersecurity arms race). When it came time for the robotics class, they were insufficient in actually teaching, being more of something they had so they could claim they had a class on it. This contributed to me going down a dark path, as I found other ways to occupy my time, which, while I was also just a bad kid, could've been prevented if they put some thought into how and what we were being taught as far as engagement was concerned.
As nice as the retro style looks, it makes the line charts difficult to read with the colors you have chosen. At 10:08, the colors are honestly pretty difficult to distinguish without spending a lot of time comparing.
Agreed! The low resolution was getting to me as well, but the colors were difficult to distinguish for me as well, and I'm not even colorblind. RIP anyone who is...
This Clippy agrees.
You dont get it..These graphs are not mentioned to be interpreted..the goal is to give off a scientific impression
Well, the 36% tax on unrealized gains certainly doesn't help with that lol
@JustSayRance THIRTY SIX ON UNREALIZED GAINS?!
@CorgiEnjoyer from 2028 we have to pay 36% tax every year on unrealised gains. 🤯
As a German, if that tax comes to us, it'll be my last straw, and that will be the point I'm leaving and sadly moving to the US... This is an attack on the middle class to disallow us to actually save for our retirement, shameful!
@CorgiEnjoyerYeah, the brightest minds of our house of representatives decided this is a good decision. If the senate approves, it'll be coming in 2028...
Mind you, they already do this for landlords too...
@JustMeHereDeIlI honestly just want my countrymen to wake up and protest for once
Hoog must be living in Amsterdam with all the Dutch/AMS videos 😅. Making a video about the impact of the Tata Steel plant near Haarlem would be interesting to watch.
When I watched the thumbnail was a windmill on fire
Withering tulips next?
Of course the only way to stop nation from dying is to increase workload of course, its allways squizeing those who work for a liveing.
@kacperpiotrowski7239 from a Pole, complaining about work, as expected
@gyorgygajdos1657hah. I guess so, but if you dutch I still sour from work agenecy scandal.
It doesn’t really sound like the Dutch work at all. Obviously that’s an exaggeration but my nurse working 26 hours a week is absurd from most other economies perspectives.
@kacperpiotrowski7239 26 hours a week is not working for a living
@kacperpiotrowski7239 26 hours a week is not working for a living
That thing were the news are talking about random topics for months is happening all over EU. I see media do the same in Lithuania...
Good to know the Netherlands currently is in the top ten in most metrics that actually matter. Income, health, infrastructure, happiness, etc.
It is a issue within whole Europe. Small interest groups is blocking project for greater good for everybody else.
Was the amount of unpaid overtime and unmentioned overtime from healthcare workers, teachers and other services included? Because quite a few "part time" workers are not officially working full time, because it would overwork them.
Most teachers and nurses I know that officaly work parttime, work on their days off as well, "it is expected" is what they claim as they work themselves into a burnout.
@AG-xq9qg Vooral dit ja. Hoe vaak ik het wel niet gehoord heb dat part time werken gunstiger is qua belasting.... belachelijk..
^ Tegenwoordig is het blijkbaar een te waanzinnig idee dat werkgevers eens hun voltijdse werknemers een leefbaar loon betalen. Pas dan zullen er minder mensen toeslagen nodig hebben om rond te komen.
@AG-xq9qg that's an issue with the system then. In the US as well, you lose benefits if you make over a certain amount which in turn would make you poorer. A negative income tax system would work better.
@cestaron634 Wat maakt het uit? Het is aan iedereen om te bepalen hoe iemand zijn leven inricht, dat ligt niet bij economen of industriegiganten en al helemaal niet bij de overheid.
Als het écht zo nodig is om mensen meer dan part-time te laten werken, laat het dan ook lonend zijn en maak de kinderopvang gratis en reduceer belastingen. Een belastingvrije voet tot aan het median inkomen is sowieso een prima idee, dit stimuleert werken en zorgt er ook voor dat er minder mensen onder de armoedegrens leven en dat het weer gemakkelijker wordt rond te kunnen komen, iets wat een veel groter probleem is dan productiviteit op dit moment.
@AG-xq9qgthis is not necessarily true. Because I got no state benefits. It’s really stupid to discount the mental strain on payed empathy. But it think that’s another story. We are not al leaches.
Great documentary as always, but the charts were eyesoring and almost impossible to read.
I appreciate the focus on data, numbers, and factual information. However, it overlooks an important point: we’re talking about human beings, complex individuals shaped by psychological, social, and structural factors.
The video also seems to suggest that our economic challenges stem mainly from everyday people not working hard enough or not performing well in school. This framing ignores the much larger issue: massive corporations and the wealthiest individuals extract a disproportionate share of resources, leaving fewer opportunities and weaker incentives for ordinary people. When so much economic power is concentrated at the top, it’s unrealistic to place the blame on individuals who are simply trying to get by.
No, it doesn't. The harsh reality is taxes are extremely high here to fund the welfare state.
Why work 40 hours a week when you only make 200 euro more a month then being welfare? Why work a day more a week when that would mean you'd earn to much for get subsidies and end up paying more than a day's work for that good or service you got subsidies for? Our current welfare system actively incentivizes not working, even when you're willing and able. Meanwhile taxes to fund that need to increase and because politicians like getting votes they don't increase taxation on people or reduce welfare they increase taxes on businesses, taxing businesses means they need to offset those extra costs by increasing pricing, reduce hiring, stagnate wages, etc. which then allows politicians and voters to blame businesses and demand even more welfare only to start the cycle anew.
At this point the average Dutch person pays roughly 80% tax of what they earn most of which goes directly to pay for the welfare system. (36~50% income tax, 9~21% VAT on top of that, and indirectly all those tax costs of running a business in everything you buy like import tax (~21%), fuel tax (30~40%), wage tax (35~50%) and the tax costs of their suppliers. Even without all the indirect taxes calculated in, if you're earning minimum wage you're already paying 45% effective tax minimum. And all of that is ignoring taxes like road tax, toll, alcohol tax, smoking tax, etc., etc. which isn't applicable to everyone.
The economic power isn't concentrated at the top, it's concentrated in the government that desperately tries to fund a failing welfare state which in itself incentivizes decreasing output.
@relo999 Agreed. This is a huge problem and I can see it for myself in my family even. It has become routine to either work little or not at all. The work you do end up doing you do slowly and badly while complaining loudly.
In the past I thought this was all just hyperbole by rich people being assholes but I am no rich person (I might be an asshole though). There is some truth to this..
Then again, repression and unfair treatment of workers was the historical norm so perhaps it is a compensatory movement. We’ll see.
NGL, not too excited to be living here at the moment but that’s more to do with the populism, blatant racism and misogynist conservatism making a strange, unwelcome comeback.
Microcosm of the phrase "infinite growth is impossible with finite resources"
@ianricoy5922 infinite growth is not impossible but it’s a lot harder when you have Karen’s regulating & taxing you to death.
You mean "the welfare state is perfect and should only ever be expanded"
@ip4pwn1 How is infinite growth not impossible? Are you insane? Nothing is infinite.
@cococo4545 everything is literally infinite, have you not seen the universe?
@ip4pwn1The _size_ is infinite, not the mass and energy. As well as we cannot use all of those contents, obviously. So most things are practically finite, even if theoretically infinite like renewables(trees, fresh water, etc.)
Every country I thought about moving to in the future is going through a rough time right now. New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the UK and now The Netherlands😔
Dit is deel 1 “Het probleem”. Hopelijk komt er ook een Deel 2 “Waar Nederland aan werkt voor een betere toekomst”.
Kijk maar naar de verkiezingsuitslag en het regeerakkoord. Kon op voorhand al vertellen dat belastingdruk omhoog gaat, regelgeving meer wordt en werkenden verder genaaid
20.5 b to Ukraine. Maybe hanging some Ukrainian flags out the window will help
Dear Hoog, can you lower the volume of the background sound please?
Yep
@hoog-youtube you can, but will you do it?
@lkjhfdszxcvbnm Did he stutter?
What? It's perfect the way it is.
@jaekeau for me personally it's fine too. But not everyone has the same perception/filter when it comes to audio, so for some it might be harder to receive the actual important information. So if turning down the background sounds makes this reach more people, I'm all for it.
6:32 "luxury boomer benefits approach to budgeting". So right, unfortunately the majority of the population doesn't understand it yet.
That majority largely consists of boomers.
Notice how they mention that if the economy declines we will have to cut on services. No mention on proper taxation of the rich.
Mind not making your graphs blurry? I like the retro look, but not when it hinders readability.
They're not fact based anyway
@ByciclesVan so we're just being presented fake statistic graphs?
Apropos of nothing, I found the narration audio in this to be somewhat comforting on an emotional level. The content, terrifying. How it's delivered, sublime.
I know! He has a very soothing voice in the face of very bad news. Same with Fern, and Dagogo Altraide from Cold Fusion.❤
So its the dutch version of the Abundance movement? And the CEO's answer is... sell off public service for parts, stop the welfare state, and less regulations? This is just Thatcher and Reagan again, look to the UK for how well that turned out.
Its just CEO's being CEO's whatever makes the line of their company go up and ignore everything else.
If you ask a CEO what's the problem with their country, you already know the answer, it's always too much regulation, too much welfare, not enough incentives to work.
Maybe governments should stop outsourcing manpower to Big Four consultancy firms.
They order nothing, yet they take your breakfast, lunch, and dinner money, and you can do nothing about it.
The video more or less acknowledges that this is not a desirable solution. But the diagnosis isn't wrong and a more effective government willing to act would certainly help. However the current socio-political climate does not encourage this instead focussing on blaming certain minorities for the problems caused by decades of laissez-faire neoliberal politics.
As long as people keep voting against their own best interest it's not going to change and I fear that we will irrevocably lose some things before we turn around.
it's specifically pensions, not "the welfare state"
3:37 "Greece chose austerity" is the understatement of the century. It didn't choose austerity, it was forced.
Germany is a better example of austerity than Greece.
Greece existed bailout programs in 2018 after TWO years of a balanced budget. And in aggregate has embraced deficit spending after 08
Austerity is never forced, it's only ever used as an excuse not to tax the rich.
Really interesting and well informed video, you keep on making a great job :)
Reminder to everyone here that the last 30 years the VVD wasn’t a ruling party for 3.5 years…
Our economy has grown immensely, yet all we do is lower taxes on the richest over the back of working people.
We gaan allemaal dood? Leuk bericht zo voor het weekend 🥺😭
Honestly, the music is really loud behind the mellow narration!
Agree. The background music is slightly too loud in this one.
The map at 4:05 includes the UK but looks like Northern Ireland got eaten up lol. The true cost of slowing economic growth 😢
"B b b but they have heckin free wholesome healthcare!!!!"
When it's my turn to be an adult
As a German it's wild that there are so many parallels to problems we also have here (inefficient bureaucracy, aging population), but then also see things like Germany apparently being very high in the STEM education graph when our entire education system is falling apart (like water leaking through roof in several schools, people not even learning to read properly, etc). The described hospital situation is also crazy to me - over here, nurses are working themselves to death and hospitals are still wayyy understaffed while in NL everyone's just working part time there??
AFAIK burn-out and under-staffing is still an issue in the medical field here
i tried to do a quick check for german data and apparently it is the case that roughly 60% of nurses (PflegerInnen) are working a fulltime equivalent. Meaning 40% are working part time? Now what does "part time" mean? 30 hours per week? 35? 26? What about overtime which is apparently happening all the time but is not registered (according to my friends in the healtcare profession)? How many in part time are working in part time because their hospital cannot afford to pay more? If someone has reliable data please share. As I said - it was a quick search.
As an Aussie, it's actually feels similar here as well (though we're frankly awful at leveraging our STEM students for innovation partly because what is listed ahead.). We have a similar problem the Dutch are facing where the financial incentives by the tax system has meant our economy is incentising overinvestment in things like property and overfunding private schools at the cost of underfunding public ones (it took until last year for the government to even readjust against this balance). We simulatiously need lots of migration for nurses and teachers but can't stop the burn out our current staff are facing...
We tax income way too much, and not enough for wealth.
Part of why there are so many part time workers is also because child care is very expensive. It is not worth working the extra day to then spend more on child care for that day 🤷♀️ Better for both parents to each have one different weekday off to care for their children and spend only 3 days a week on childcare. With the disappearance of the stay-at-home-housewife a long time ago (you need 2 incomes to make things go around) many parents nowadays have parents who are also both still working. If you are lucky maybe grandma also works 4 days a week and then you have to pay only for 2 days of child care.
Another issue is the system we've created that makes people addicted to subsidies and benefits schemes, this isn't the fault of Dutch Citizens; when you make a certain amount of money you lose out on different subsidies depending on your situation, for a lot of people they can simply work less hours and earn a bit less and be eligible for additional benefits. Working less = more net income per month when you receive these benefits.
What would work is a complete system without all the benefits.
An AOW for everyone, without the toeslagen. So the Belastingdienst can ACTUALLY do what they were built for; taxing things and equalizing wealth.
If everyone got an AOW, then there would be no need for kinderopvangtoeslag, or zorgtoeslag or huurtoeslag. The easiest way of avoiding another Toeslagenaffaire.The Werknemerskorting can also go then, because if you work you get taxed and since you already have an AOW, that's your korting
A very unpopular idea amongst people.
We also need to seriously start looking into taxing wealth. Not the simple "someone has a million in the bank" type of wealth, but the top 500 people now own 8.9% of all wealth in the NL. Because the current ceiling of when we get taxed is actually TOO LOW in order to actually be beneficial to the economy. Hell, you can only keep 50K on the bank before you get taxed.
And we shouldn't invest so much in defence, it will be the killer of the healthcare system we have in the NL.
Another crazy idea, even though I think it's easy creating a Russian enemy that's bogged down for almost 4 years in Ukraine without any prospects of "winning" and invading NATO anytime soon.
And another insane idea; we need to have more government, nationalized services again. Government controlled healthcare, government controlled public transport
The Thacher/Reagan movement only made everything worse. Even the freaking Police needs to run a "Profit" these days
Thank early-to-mid 20th-century politicians in the Netherlands for this.
European counterparts encouraged women to earn their own money. Dutch politicians insisted women to forfeit basic rights as even having your own bank account.
@Swat_Dennisdon’t pay for self defense lose sovereignty. Your airspace, open sea lanes. All gone. How about the internet? You are a vassal state of the US.
@Swat_Dennis "The Thacher/Reagan movement only made everything worse"
We've never had that. We have had a system that worships the welfare state above all else. Even the "privatized" government services you mention are still in full control of the government and have been for the last 8 decades, but instead of you paying tax to get it you pay for it directly, and even then most of those are still partially tax funded as they consistently lose money (because the government also controls pricing) and then the tax payer still needs to fund them. The reason the police need to "profit" is to fund the failing welfare state. Expanding the welfare state isn't a solution to an overblown and costly welfare state.
What if we dont need to increase productivity forever? If the quality of life remains the same, I dont see why some economic slowing is a bad thing
Macron saying “for sure” after the video says the US has a bigger economy made me chuckle 5:55
In the midst of it all, we commit to spend billions more on weapons 🤦🏼♂
The only real problem here is the population issue and it's very hard to imagine solving that via economic growth -- either you take immigrants or you cut the benefit levels for the old (not really many other choices). Besides the population issue, it doesn't really matter if you aren't growing as fast as other countries because -- holding fixed the current qualify or even just improving less quickly -- your services don't become more expensive over time unless wages rise. If you'd prefer to just keep your current standard of living rather than be pushed into working longer you can just do that.
But you need to face the population issue.
We need the immigrants to work, we don't need the elderly, they only cost money, especially baby boomers... and yet baby boomers are the richest group in our country...
Their nightmares are less dire than many nations' reality.
That doesn't mean we should let it happen "cuz it could've been worse"
@Purple835 Who even claimed that??
They are DEFINETELY not, compared to Bulgaria, Romania, etc. BUT NL must take action to prevent things going this way.
@axelf4515 A dude died in my country because the road had a massive crater.
@Splicer-lb5xb Which country?
I’d love to see this kind of assessment of the UK.
UK has so many issues dawg, over-immigration or corruption those are 2 of thousands of issues we have
@noonespecialtbh We don't have an over-immigration problem, you're just gullible.
BritMonkey made one over a year ago
@noonespecialtbhplease explain the issue of ‘over immigration’.
Yes the UK has issues. That’s why I want to see an unbiased and informed assessment of it.
@iddkonr rather, you are. go outside man.
Well informative, great job, keep going!
hoog, fern and now also ruis, I'm being blessed with good content
Would be nice to have the sources for the graphs shown 😊
Read the report
11:52 France and Ireland are listed twice here
@Kurenktr you beat me to it
With different stats, no less.
Dicht bij de verkiezingen zo'n video maken is welzeker een bewuste keuze
The fact you said "or don't" at the end, made me insta subscribe.
Scenario: the economy is slowed down by excessive taxes and bureaucracy.
Politicians reaction: we shall solve this by increasing taxes and bureaucracy.
The real problem in Netherlands is that it's living off of a pyramid scheme that puts the bill on the younger gen. Just 30 years ago you could get a mortgage "aflossingsvrij" i.e. without needing to pay back, only the interest. Then the government introduced a hefty interest deductible on your income, making debt insanely cheap. The houses went up a lot, boomers profited off of it. But currently housing is unaffordable to young people having a job. Almost everyone is pushing into social housing, but social housing is decreased and illegal migrants who get a permit of residence skip the 8-12 year queue and only need to wait a few weeks for housing.
Also all women work part time because it really isn't worth it to work full time. If you work part time, make 25k euro you barely get taxed and get a ton of benefits. If you go from 25k to 50k (i.e. from like 20 hours to 40 hours on a slightly above average wage), you only earn like 10kish more in the bottom line. It's because you lose a bunch of benefits, your ''arbeidskorting'' and ''loonheffingskorting'' decrease (complicated tax formula) and you effectively pay around 50% taxes. This has been an intentional choice. The tax system is a political choice. It's total dogshit and only migrant workers are wanted here, since they get a 30% deductible and can use that to pay the very high rents here.
Who is really motivated to work for this shit? Taxes are also insane. The difference between earning 35k and sitting in social housing and earning 90k a year without social housing is actually almost nothing. It's insane, I don't know any other country like this. Also ASML pays doodoo shit for the majority of their roles, of course they're looking to hire migrants very cheaply (at ASML you make much less than the public sector, much less than the banks, much less than some bigger tech companies like Booking).
It bears repeating, “the US innovates, China imitates and the EU regulates”. If the EU doesn’t stop regulating new tech in the guise of protecting the people, they will continue to fall behind.
The EU should just go all in on the tourism sector.
staan we er weer lekker op jongens?
That "financial oracle" they called in to do the research and come with solutions, comes with solutions that are still entirely rooted in a neoliberal framework. Its this way of thinking that doesn't work anymore.
Love the videos, big fan. One request: please drop new videos with good English language captions. This one defaulted to Dutch and the autogenerated ones aren’t great - overlapping the translation captions on my tv too. Please consider accessibility ❤
We hebben een groot probleem
En dat is Hoog. Hij leve Hoog! Zo (wijst naar zeenivo) Hoog.
As a greek working in Eindhoven, I think these are problems that the netherlands cannot solve on their own. This is the 2nd alarm bell for the need of EU restructuring. The 1st was in 2008 crisis but no one seemed to be listening at the time.
@TheBackslider19 there are people that really want to but without enough people you can't do annything.
Restructuring?? You mean dismantling. The EU is destroying Europe. The vast majority o European economies has barely grown at all in the last 25 years, that is utterly catastrophic
Maybe the EU parlement is not working, or working against the market and people. My suggestion, Nexit. It is a undemocatic monster.
We should solve it on our own, by leaving the eu
@dimmen1 Are you dumb? Look at how well Brexit turned out for the UK. You really want to be like the UK?
Have you considered that the drop off of educational attainment may have something to do with the fact that fewer and fewer of the children educated are actually Dutch?
I’m loving the retro 1980s graphics
De overheid kan veel doen om te besparen, zonder te bezuinigen. Denk aan open source software gaan gebruiken, taken (zoals aanvragen) versnellen met AI (zeker in onderwijs), minder voordelen voor ambtenaren, zelf nadenken en zelf verantwoordelijkheid durven nemen op beslissingen (ipv alle beslissingen laten maken door 'commissies' en 'consultants'), en bekijken hoe het taken kan uitvoeren op een manier die voor iedereen geld bespaard, in plaats van alleen op de situatie toezien.
The fact about nurses' working hours genuinely surprised me
It's scary to see these trends and different perspectives next to each other. To think that turning a couple of dials would solve things, I'd love that. But the information from this video gives me the idea that the powers that be are more a result of our choices, rather than shaping our choices. For example: the nurses who work part time.. The things I hear from people who work in Healthcare, make me think they NEED that part time just to stay afloat. One after the other is going into burnout. Staff shortages seems to be the number one cause, which makes colleagues jump in and patch holes, leading to working harder. Honestly.. The people who work in healthcare are to be treated like saints, and protected from our system failures (which seem to originate from the idea that everybody is responsible for themselves).
Anyway.. I do think there is a way forward, but it's going to involve a lot more collaboration and caring for each other.
The healthcare workers were "heroes" during the pandemic, now it's fashionable to crap on them again. Amazing. Normally it's the old who give life advice to the young, but if I could give Dutch boomers one piece of advice, it would be to really invest in relationships with their children and grandchildren. Maybe they'll take you in. Or if you must spend the inheritance, invest it in your end-of-life care, because I don't see how this system is going to survive in 30 years unless robots can manage it by that time.
7:56 Nuclear power is the solution for electricity that doesn’t take space. It’s as clean as offshore wind, takes the least amount of mining and materials compared to the other clean energy sources, and takes the least amount of space.
@koenma932 yes!
@koenma932 it's very expensive though
They use Chernobyl as an excuse that it's not safe.
How is building a giant concrete Nuclear power plant clean?
How is producing toxic waste which last centuries clean?
@VipaldiIt's not a matter whether the waste is clean or not, it's how you store it and then incinerate it. Your question would've made sense before the invention of a nuclear power plant, however we've already been using it for decades, including the proper procedure of waste management.
Being French and living in the UK, except maybe the severe lack of space, I highly recognize the situation of my two countries in your description. School performance dropping, part time economy, NIMBY-ism everywhere, nothing can be built, expensive energy, and extremely high bureaucracy.
@TheVachicorne viens en Amérique
@Mastermind1999 Fuck no lol, you wish.
Very informative! Thank you!
I love the retro theme of the charts mixed with slowed vapor wave.
Big part of the government is also that the people don't really want to stay in the country anymore, the move either to Spain or just somewhere comfortable, and Eastern Eu workers also don't really want to stay because of the artificial way of living. for the ppl who want to make companies its also impossible, first of all the competition is vicious they don't have ethics and morals anymore, so newcomers suffer, not even gonna mention high taxes and the impossible way to sustain everything. another part is just taking the lazy refugees and paying for them, they don't give nothing back. and they are multiple generations of them here now, who exploit other ppl who just want to work and make living. greed is killing this country.
14:01 nice reference to Carney Davos speach
@M335T3R wanted to comment this exact thing, nice catch!
Taxing the criminally rich individuals and businesses fairly would solve a decent part of the financiel issue
@Buurtindofor how long? They would leave to america
They would simply leave , or use some lopehole to save the tax
@Yuvi-on5ge Good? Less of them around means their lobby weakens and maybe we can stop passing laws that squeezes the middle class so the rich can keep more of their money
@dovesr0478well that maybe true
But taxs should not be too high it hurts the middle class the most
Rutte, the one who sold the Defense Department also wanted a knowledge economy. The last 15 years he did exactly this.