How highly skilled make the service in the Netherlands

Something strange is going on in the Netherlands, says financial geographer Ewald Engelen. Since the 1960s, there have not been as many strikes and protests as in the last 10 years. At the same time, election after election is being voted on the same middle parties. How can that??
It has everything to do with the growing gap between theoretical and practical skilled people in the Netherlands, according to Angels. Politicians, policymakers, journalists: almost all of them are highly educated. And the policies they make and the questions they ask do not benefit practically skilled.

They will have stood there among the workers who reported daily to the factory gate in the nineteenth century: intelligent men and women, with talent that would never come to fruition, learning ability that would never be exploited. Because their class locked them in the social position they had, which seemed unchangeable. Beyond, high up in the office, could have been a man who could hardly cope with his job, but was the founder's grandson. And from birth, destined to become the new director. In the past century, social rise has been one of the most important developments. But what happens when the new class society is locked again??

How can that??
It has everything to do with the growing gap between theoretical and practical skilled people in the Netherlands, according to Angels. Politicians, policymakers, journalists: almost all of them are highly educated. And the policies they make and the questions they ask do not benefit practically skilled.

Those who assume that social strata usually marry (or engage in relationships) and have children, it will not be surprised that the meritocracy itself begins to become hereditary — especially in the social sense. Parents at the top are now particularly afraid of downward social mobility of their offspring. Loss aversion , wanting to avoid loss, a term coined in the late 1970s by psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman — is a strong motivation for man.

See tutoring, gym run, parents' pressure for school advice as high as possible, CITO training. Or maybe medicalising learning and behavioural issues. Above all, to avoid the conclusion that underperformance could result from a lack of probability of one's own offspring.

So the top layer, often without realizing it, pulls up the ladder. The top layer is getting scared of falling. The underlay is increasingly angry about the immutability of their own situation and that of the children. It is not difficult to read the first signs of the social turmoil resulting from the cut-off route upwards in the current disgust of 'the elite'.

Loading full article...