As the citizen complained about rising fuel and energy prices from the horror file, CBS released a striking good news show last week. Purchasing power rose 58 percent over the past 35 years, while income inequality remained low. The government is leveling more than enough, according to the researchers, especially thanks to the many surcharges and other jars that maintain purchasing power at the bottom.

And once again, sand is sprinkled efficiently in the eyes of the masses and politics by narrowing the notion of 'inequality' in imaging to income inequality. While we all know that the great inequality pain in the Netherlands is just one and a half times as much as the other 90 percent of the Netherlands, the richest 10 percent of the Netherlands has more than 1 trillion in possessions. One problem with this immense wealth inequality is the lack of data. The assets of the patriotic empires are structurally underestimated by the CBS, insofar as they are estimated at all, because their significant interests are difficult to calculate. In 2021, the Quote 500 is still the most complete dataset of the Netherlands. Handsome work of Quote but also a drama for CBS. Moreover, wealth does not end with those five hundred names.

The low income inequality seems good news but isn't. There is every reason to believe that the low income inequality in the Netherlands leads to the extremely high wealth inequality. People at the bottom have little reason to work more (and thus build up power) thanks to all surcharges. After all, they lose those surcharges and often don't even go ahead in terms of purchasing power. The welfare state is not the problem, as is the decades-long policy of wage moderation, which requires an average working government support.

In the meantime, the possessive class has seen its assets grow for decades, while that growth is only a little bit related to work. In short, the have nots see no reason to work more, the haves make their money work. This is how wealth inequality grows and it cannot surprise anyone that in the Netherlands we work almost the least in Europe.

The Netherlands is less productive and equal, and more and more spoiled and uneven. Decades of low prices, gas bubbles and historical leaps have given us too much confidence. We dazzle ourselves with productivity figures that haven't been growing for years and inequality in which only half the story is told. Our happiness runs out and we're going to feel it: we'll have to work harder for the same prosperity.

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Dewaputra
Money, it is and remains a difficult issue anyway.
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Animal lover
I totally agree with you hear the Netherlands is spoiled but for people with a home that have no right to anything but I have been applying for 5 years now and still no work sometimes I wonder where to go.
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