you are doing something wrong...

Yeah living in Croatia@@michalkosmita5194

@@Philipmccrevvas its always the same question What do your do !!!

​@@Philipmccrevvas your wrong even now... huge regional differences... where 1200 bucks still worth something, you would not want to live there probably... commenter is most likely from the eastern side and boy is he right! We don't get a everything we need on credit around here.

Making someone richer

make more babies then

​@blankspace1126 or more immigrants from countries who can't feed their own people...

That is what i was thinking. Why even considering working more if we on the edge or even in the middle of a transition where AI would automate most of our jobs. (like they promise) There is just a weird dis-connect here.

@@blankspace1126braindead

@@blankspace1126to make more babies, you need to have money to raise them, otherwise they will become uneducated, jobless and probably homeless for which working people will be paying with their taxes.

This is practically the story of my brother in law who used to work for Peri, German corporation, in Poland. I imagine these stories repeat a lot!!

"Quiet quitting" is a term they invented to guilt and shame us into accepting being exploited.

To be fair, cost of living in germany is also more.

@@TheIndianWoman100 that's true, but cosmetics, food, petrol, utilities, etc are very similarly priced. Accomodation is much cheaper but on balance it still work out better for German employees.

@@TheIndianWoman100 yes, but if you compare e.g. Czechia with Germany - in recent years the difference of cost of life in those 2 countries is way less significant than the difference of salaries.

Not saying you're wrong! But the wealth disparity in ancient Rome was roughly the same, or arguably even worse - comparing Emperor Augustus Caesar to the average Roman citizen and comparing Elon or Jeff to the average American citizen - so this is to say the wealth disparity is not a new phenomenon in the world, but the changing attitudes towards work is somewhat new.

So comparing today, to a time where most of the work was done by litteral slaves is supposed to make us think what ? Are you sure you want to go there ?

@@RichJRZ Yes, you can't expect educated people to work as slaves.

@@RichJRZ and this is relevant how?

@@RichJRZ This is a pointless argument.

I know what you're thinking, but ironically increasing wages might incentivise people to work less. Not everyone cares about getting rich. If you already have enough money to live comfortably, why would you work harder with a higher wage? I wouldn't! At some point free time becomes more valuable than hoarding more material wealth. What? Am I supposed to no-life it and work super hard so I can retire early? That would only delay the problem anyway. Or maybe buy a big house with room for all the children I never had time to have? Economic growth is overrated.

@@fnorgen that may apply to the 20% of people already making a decent living. Most people dont fall into that bracket.

@@fnorgen I'd say the motivation from being paid what you're worth gives far bigger incentive to work hard than it takes away. Being paid too little is not a boost for motivation and morale either. I think, for most people, wage is not so much about the material wealth (from a certain point onwards) but about the show of appreciation for the work they're doing. It's what motivates people to continue their career.

@@srccde it's so fun watching the wealthiest countries complaining about not getting paid enough. Vietnamese begs to differ.

@@blankspace1126 The living costs in these wealthy countries are usually *way* higher than in other countries. Yes, we complain about wages that, compared to vietnamese wages, are pretty high, but so are the costs of the things we have to afford with that wage. That's why so many europeans emigrate to asian countries, e.g., Thailand. Their pensions are not high enough to live comfortably in their countries of origin but are, essentially, a fortune in other countries.

And that's not available in NL. You have overpriced, cold and moldy apartments, overpriced heating, overpriced daycare and heavy tax if you earn more.

​@@bpunk9Definitely not, just go live somewhere else than the Randstad. I live a very comfortable life working part-time, owning a home, with good savings and additional pension funds

​@@bpunk9blablabla. Netherlands is one of the best countries to live in.

"just a nice home" working to live salary Yeah bro, speak some more of your amazing wisdom

some people get bored

Absolutly....

Agree! I am down to 4 days a week. Best thing I have done

Untill your 75 and complaining the retirement you built up is smaller then everyone elses. As a society we have grown spoiled and during our lifetimes a harsh reality check will come. But due to political reasons at that moment they porbably loot the pockets of the people who actually worked their buts off in favor of the ones who wanted "me time".

Tell that to countries with gdp per capita lower than 20k😂😂😂

Your birthrates are already almost as bad as Korea's and Japan's. This has been the case for decades, and obviously has little to do with working hours. Germany, which as the video pointed out has among the lowest working hours in the developed world, also has one of the lowest birthrates. The culprit is cultural, the prioritization of personal fulfillment at the expense of the responsiblities and sacrifices of parenthood. In other words, selfishness.

@@aint_just_whistlin_dixie Birthrate: Germany 1,46 South Korea 0,84 How are those comparable in any way ? Just for comparison USA Birthrate is 1,64

@@aint_just_whistlin_dixie That would be true if we had everything else in life covered, but with barely enough income to support ourselves (and nowhere near enough buy a home to create a "nest") most of us can not afford to have kids.

Ah so it's because you lack money you can't have kids then?

Simple, encourage high levels of immigration that keeps wages low and corporate profits high, whilst simultaneously increasing demand for assets such as housing, increasing the value of the assets owned by corporate owners. Nice system!

Same is with the guys in India etc making the jeans for that rich Eastern European workers and the list goes on.

Do you think that East European love "grinding"? It is like in the article I once read: Stat show, that Poles prefer small apartments, old cars and overtime hours :) It is very simple, in East Europe everything cost the same (even housing nowadays...) but you earn 50% of that in West. What choice do we have? You work or you live under the bridge (in Poland social security is about 300 Euro/month)

@@martin_93 we basically became colonies of rich western countries... we produce their cars, their electronics, their clothes but we only get a fraction of their salary

@@pepik121 What choice do we have? We must develop our own companies, be creative and innovative, work smarter, and harder. We have good fundamentals (education, infrastructure etc.) now we have to use them. Also, we dont have 'west problems' yet, like mass migration related crimes or drugs (like in USA fentanyl crisis) It is still better to be "colonies of west" than part of russian/china world. We have been there, it was disaster. When looking at stats, we are actually doing quite good, Poland, Czech Republic and Baltic Countries are leading in GDP per capita grow, when you mark 1990 as starting point. Look at Ukraine - in 1992 gdp per capita 3200 $, in 2018...3100$. Meanwhile Poland 5100$ -> 16 600 more than 3x. Estonia 6,500$-> 20000$. It is just not possible to be at the same economy level as west, when in 1990 we had litereally nothing there, I myself remember as a kid eating bread with sugar for breafest... . I hope, if we avoid mistakes and will work as we we have worked for last 40 years, we will get them, sooner or later, but we will.

I'm one of those people, I work with c level in corporate strategy in the literal infrastructure that holds my company together, I earn 1250€ before taxes and I'm paid less than half the average hourly wage of company...All because I'm from tomato Europe

Housing market alone is enough to shape economic desicion. You basically pay your whole life for it, it's the biggest expense ever. And lack of square meters is the most significant factor affecting decision to have children (at least here data shows it). But the thing is solving house crisis is not straightforward politically. Current homeowners will see their property decline in value once you start flloding the market with affordable housing so they'll vote against any politian who mentions such plans.

it is hard to believe things could be even worse that they already were in my generation when i was young, and I am 50 now. No one will give it to us, but we can become meaningfuly changed.

People aren't inherently racist? British people imposed economic sanctions on itself just to "regulate migration" which wasn't really a Issue since they weren't part of schengen. Basically you can imagine the UK as a the average racist old man that cut one of his limbs after speaing to an Indian.

I don't experience any asks for longer working hours, but the cost of living and housing compared to saleries today is certainly staggering. Guess I'll buy my first home when I'm 45.

@@alexanderlinderson2655 At least people are more conscious about what is happening and start to discuss this issues. The state entertains people with what doesn't matter. Our generation needs to defend also their interests.

Well to be fair, they did day that 50% of employees in Netherlands are part time. They also admitted throwing 28-32 hr workers into this category (which is technically part-time, but not half-time), but even so there's theoretical room to push back for everyone working 40hrs/w. So no, thry don't propose working 6 days a week and they don't propose everyone to increase their work hours. Wether it's a good idea or not, that's a completely different question.

Nah Americans work more

Well duh. Can’t have a barely surviving wage slave workforce if you take care of them

How will the capitalist pigs extract our excess labour then!? Yachts aren’t cheap you know!

You are right but here the focus is on how the economy can still work if there is nobody around to do the work... If companies have to shut down, then you're gonna have a zero day work week...

@@MrStphch Having 4 workdays a week hardly means there isn't anybody around to do the work.

People in Asia are just laughing at French people who work 35h/week (I’m French). And now we talk about part-time. It’s ridiculous. Europe will not be able to compete against the USA and China if it goes this way. Don’t be weak !

tell me you havent work as a manager without telling me you havent work as a manager

​@@archmad, when they said "Top Management" (probably CEO, CFO, etc.) they were thinking of a different type of manager than the 'Middle Management' you might be thinking of. Of course I'm just making an inference from just a few words.

when you have a 50 billion dollar company Spotify CEO (which is from Sweden what a surprise) complaining about the "rich", yeah Europe is doing absolutely fine.

Hum mate those guys who own the businesses are the ones taking all the risk…there is no such thing guaranteed money in fact most and I mean most businesses that start ended failing and those who don’t can still earn very little but not every company is an Apple…you feel you can have a business than go ahead and do it you’ll find it to be extremely more stressful and tiring than having a 9-5 job. You know whats easier simply investing in stock market but as with everything it’s is not anywhere close to guaranteed money you guys asking to receive the same as the owner is laughable the owner created the business took and still takes all the risk money and legal wise and you come in and say that you should deserve the same cause you got a 9-5 spot at my company??? Please go ahead and do the same make your business and get some reality check. You are infected with ideas of communism.

You suggesting communism mate.

Id suggest you start lookinv around for extra employment. I do not think europe will ever have the luxuries it previously did. Get used to longer hours, an euro that wont go as far, and less holidays and less capacity to spend on trivialities.

@@LukeThomasPerth What trivialities?

Without constant immigrant entry into the economy and society the average person in the EU would have to work atleast for another 4 years after retirement to be able to make the same kind of money and use the same public systems & etc

God you people are so lazy

XD Germany 1350 working hours per year, poland 1800

It’s literally one of the sections: 4:08

same for Switerland, at least in some cantons...

Exactly that! An engineer with University degree loses 50% of his salary on taxes. So does a gardener, an electrician, daycare... So as a young engineer it's financially more interesting to work 30 hours and do this yourself because you save these taxes on salary 2x times. This is contraproductive for the countries GBP and results in lower employment rates.

@@automofiel Thats not how taxes work. taxes work like buckets so only the amount over the bucket you pay tax for. If your effective tax rate is 50% you have so much income that you don't need money anymore (think milions plus).

This lazy puck must be French 😂

Capitalists disagree. They want 60 hour work weeks with 1/10th of your currwnt wage.

@timmy-wj2hc How much would I win if I bet you are absolutely unsuccessful in life in general. BTW I raised babies doesn't count.

@@timmy-wj2hc And paying more taxes in the process because we have earned to much, yeah nice try capitalists lol..

But they wouldnt accept it for themselves ​@timmy-wj2hc

insane in the netherlands? no its not. we get help from the government to pay for it. and in 2027 they want to make it free. Wanneer je werkt of studeert heb je recht op kinderopvangtoeslag. De belastingdienst vergoedt in de meeste gevallen tussen de 33% tot wel 96% van het maximum vastgestelde uurtarief! In 2024 is dit € 10,25 voor het kinderdagverblijf en € 9,12 voor de BSO. De maximale vergoedingen per uur worden: voor de dagopvang € 9,12; voor de buitenschoolse opvang € 7,85; voor de gastouderopvang € 6,85. Wat kinderopvang precies kost, verschilt per gezin en per situatie. Per uur betaal je tussen de €5 en de €10, maar in Nederland hebben de meeste ouders recht op kinderopvangtoeslag. Hoeveel toeslag je krijgt en hoeveel je dus uiteindelijk zelf voor de kinderopvang betaalt, hangt af van meerdere factoren both are from 2023. its not that expensive over here. that last one just explains how it works. so no we get help with everything when it comes to things like this. why do you think we still have one of the best social systems in europe? yes the netherlands is expensive i am not going to deny that. and yes we are among the most expensive countries in the EU thats also a fact. but we get lots of help from the government with things like this more then other countries. so no its not expensive its pretty decent.

And it also ensures your kid is properly brought up and not indoctrinated.

same issue here in the usa, some parents spend $1500 to $2000 a month for childcare, then our government wonders why young people aren't having any kids...everything too expensive at the moment and having a kid is a choice, so most decide to focus on paying for their bills. Or if parents have kiddos, you see some of them stay home to take care of the child.

@@oldsenpai4337 I feel it is the consequence of hyper-capitalism. The economy tries to squeeze every drop of "productivity" out of people whilst maximizing profits. If we look at Norway ( I have also lived there for 8 years) their society is FAR more balanced. Salaries are normalized across the board, but everybody gets paid very well. Taxes are high, also for corporations but it means people have an incredible work life balance and childcare is virtually free...

They seem to think caring for someone at home is not 'work' ...

Sometimes the job seeking place is not even real. It's just here because it's required by the law 🙄🙄🙄

The rich business owners always play the victim role

That's laughable. Please tell me how you achieve that, without breaking the bank.

@@IMGreg.. I KNOW! It's ridiculous to even think people that should be paid enough to live decently; it's not like during the last 30 years wages stagnated while productivity has been increasing steadily... right? We should all sacrifice our lives for the economy, otherwise how are our overlords going to afford their new yachts? Workers are so selfish. 🥲

That's prima facie impossible

@@IMGreg.. Taxing the rich

@@Nermalton77 Okay. You successfully driven out the most rich people of the countries who brought as many of their assets with them… Now what?

Work is done far more efficiently than it ever has, but it's not Europeans doing work more efficiently, it's those Europe runs trade deficit with that's doing work more efficiently.

Well said, the question is having the power to bring this about. Organised labour must step up

vlhc4642 Like who? Lol no silly it’s because of advancing technology, unfortunately wages haven’t quite kept up with the rise in productivity.

@@juancarlosalonso5664 Like the country you run half a trillion trade deficit with, the country with 2x more robots per worker than Europe, that's who. European wages are simply moving toward the fair amount that Europeans deserve for their output.

@@vlhc4642It's not the Germans (Germany: pop 85m, 3rd largest economy) that need to work more; it's the Japanese (Japan: pop 125m, 4th largest economy) and the Chinese that need to work less, but more productively and efficiently.

Excuse me, but people living on low wages work up to 12 hours per day. What are you on about.

I would refute your argument that people on low wages have become lazy, that's untrue. What has happened is people on low wages realise their contribution isn't valued and their modest ambition of owning their own homes and having families are never going to be realised, so why bother? That's when they live in the moment because there's nothing to aim for. Governments have created a generation of people who no longer give a damn.

@@mypointofview1111in italy in the last 20 years wages have gone down by 2%... imagine if they kept going up like other eu countries

not lazy. realistic. feudalism like working conditions are not worth it and such low payment and high living cost in one of the richest countries in the world is pathetic and everyone that thinks its not wealth concentration and too much bureaucracy lost it yea.

so true

paying 60% of your income in Sweden certainly help

In west. For the last years underdeveloped countries developed a lot, so you now have to share resources and products with 8 billion people around the globe.

@@user-qx4zc3ph2m Maybe it's because Europe actually has not innovated whatsoever for DECADES that once kept their monopoly over the high end? Driving out useless people (such as nowadays Europe) seems like a pretty FEATURE of creative destruction.

I can explain this very easy, when tax is >50% instead of 10% both people need to work.

@@eightsprites Usa income Tax rate in 1950-1970 was 70%

You mean for the west. Us in developing countries needed two people to work to have a financially stable life, a lot also had to be separated from their families, typically mothers, so they can work as domestic help and nurses. Now things have gradually equalised in terms of the needed educational attainment and skill, further we have far bigger consumer markets.

Absolutely!!!

If you increase tax on asset, the middle-class asset owners will suffer seriously. What do you gonna do about them?

​@@koushikdas1992when he mentions "tax the wealth/asset" I don't think he meant the average person with a small house and a dog. It's more about those with several properties, etc.

@@fernandodesouza4248 , what about start-up businesses who want to grow? Are you going to stop them innovating by giving them a flat 70% tax rate on them??? And Europeans still wonder why there isn't Europe's version of Facebook, ChatGPT, Tesla, BYD, Capcom etc...

Most people with multiple properties are renting them and if they increase tax on those , landlords either need to increase the rent or sell the houses which will create another problem with renting.

@@sarash5061 Sounds like a good idea - make it more expensive for landlords, they sell, and normal people can afford to buy their own home.

Good point

It's such nonsense that remote working improves productivity. There is no proof for it. There is proof it reduces solidarity amongst colleagues and hinders the bond with the employer.

Although, it is true that people need to be able to afford housing in the area of the company if they are hired to work at a company location. So it means that you need to increase their pay, meaning everyone in other regions gets less.

This wont happen under neoliberalism

Because house IS out of reach. For example a house near Berlin costs about a Million Euro, maybe 800k if you are lucky. How on earth can a working person buy it? This is around 20 years of salary if you put every earned cent in savings.

@@stanislavkindiakov6334you have to outright buy the house?

@@KEMough at least to have first downpayment and pay it back fully before retirement.

​@@KEMoughMaybe not everyone wants to get a loan from a bank for 20-25 years for a house...

@@rvs_rogue7049 if you look there was a question mark. I wasn’t asking you either

40 hours is more than I care to sell.

I have 40 hours week but the last 2 hours in a day I can't work at all

40 hours is part time

@@winnietheblue3633 tough boy

​@dbs5212 no no , he's saying categorically 40 hours is considered part time. 42 hours a week is full-time.

What caretaking at home? They don’t have kids.

@@brotherbig4651 oh that's even better. these feminists' dream are really coming true.

​@@blankspace1126 Is that such a bad thing? 40 odd years ago it was normal for women to stay at home and look after their children. Not farm them out to strangers. Men earned enough to provide for a family, pay the mortgage and have holidays and you didn't need to be rich to do that. Now prices have risen so much that both parents have to work and are lucky if they manage the rent on accommodation never mind buy their own house. Life wasn't always so desperate as it is now. Children are better behaved and happier when they're brought up by either parents being home. There's less behavioural problems. Things like adhd or autism was unheard of 40-60 years ago. Children are medicated instead of being cared for by their mothers at home.

Indeed it’s a good point. High taxes, especially progressive tax system, and bureaucracy removes the option of value maximization by splitting such responsibilities. Any cleaner will make the cleaning process faster and with better quality, while qualified engineer could spend his time on main work value creation. It’s pretty easy to calculate the combined value for an economy and mutual wealth gaining.

For the rich you are nothing more then a slave !

@@marcozegikniet9301 it's not only about slave. No body stopping from becoming rich

Exactly.

I wouldn't say it's the only problem, consumerism is also an issue. If we were more frugal we would need to produce less, and therefore work less. Although I agree that distribution is another key issue.

This is not about making people who already work 40h to work more, the problem is to motivate people living on social benefits working 24h per week instead of sucking everything out of the middle class already working 40h and paying full price of housing and daycare + importing more cheap labor from abroad.

@@juancarlosalonso5664Viva Franco Viva

but that's exactly what these socialist want: TAX THE RICH

More and more people also seem to complain about useless positions. I'm not sure whether the meeting structure has actually changed from before, but in office work lots of people complain about that. Maybe the whole office structure in itself, plus the tendency to work at large companies rather than small specialized ones, has made us less efficient. Then there is mainly physical work that is even more important that actually requires people being there at a specific time rather than getting something done as quickly as possible (although it helps, but for example you would not want a doctor to rush an emergency surgery or a gardener to just remove all unhealthy trees instead of caring for them). In any case, people being overworked makes them more prone to mistakes, makes them more likely to waste time and makes them unhealthy.

Exactly. In my country I see open vacations by billion dollar companies that haven’t been filled for years. Then you check the salary for a job they are desperate to find someone for and it’s the legal minimum wage, meanwhile the job requirements are way above the average job. Yeah no thanks. Either raise the wage accordingly to the workload and stress the job requires or keep “desperately” looking for 10 more years.

That's not how things work in NL. There are too many people purposefully working less and staying under the threshold to keep receiving benefits. They have no incentive to work full time so we keep importing people. If you are a student starting to work in your field, although your annual salary may have jumped from €25k to €50k, when adjusted with all benefits you now lost, as you're no longer eligible for welfare and with higher tax rate - the net benefit is only €5k. Also with €50k you cannot afford to even rent, let alone buy something in any of the 4 biggest cities. Now teachers, policemen, healthcare workers fall right into this category - no benefits, yet unable to afford anything.

underrated comment@@bpunk9

but we have to tax the RICH

@@blankspace1126 , not if it means carrying on with our unsustainable low-fertility highly aging population while living in a welfare State. If you give people more money through taxing the rich but those people with more money don't have children to sustain the welfare State, you are essentially just kicking the can down the road and leaving it for another politician to take more difficult unpopular decisions in the future.

@@blankspace1126That mentally will never get you RICH 🤑. Besides the rich already pay the majority of the taxes, provides work opertunerty that feeds families. Sure we can get rid of the rich, there by cut state tax income in more than half, at the same time getting very high unemployement, and starvation. Nations has tried this before. Communism hasnt worked great so far.

PREACH! It is exaclty this! And on top of demographic deterioration, it further deepens the housing crisis, productivity and innovation are decreasing, younger generations are hopeless, there is less motivation for education, quality of life is plummetting. Yet - many employers and property owners reap the benefits of cheap labor and high rents and we just watch this go by.

Yes! You are exactly at the point, same situation in Germany. Only when you have a Director salary you have a chance to buy a basic house somewhere outside the city.

How do you solve the housing crisis? Lowering income taxes will only make it worse I think. Housing is a global problem in 50+ countries. None of these countries managed to find a solution. I agree that the problem is structural. Where I disagree is on this notion that any local government has the power to fix these problems since they are deriving from a global economy, demographic issues and technological development. Of course some things can be done, and they are, but for now the best fix on an individual level is find your way through this system and remind yourself that you live in a rich country and are still spoiled everything considered.

@@karstenmadsen9801 Because many houses in the Netherlands are bought up by companies, institutions, big hedge funds and wealthy investors. The rules of the game and playing field are not equal. It costs about 600,000 euro to buy a regular sized apartment in the city of Utrecht. This is abnormal. Reducing the tax burden on the working class would allow for greater income to purchase these houses. You may be correct though, this could be inflationary if there aren't additional rules put in place to prevent investment in housing. 'Finding my way through the system" will not magic 600,000 euro on my bank account sadly xD This means an entire generation is priced out of housing. It is one of the main reasons I believe the dutch birth rate is imploding. Who wants a child if they can't afford a home and are spending most of their income on rent? It is financially simply not possible any longer. You are indeed correct though, we are lucky to live where we do, yet that does not mean we cannot strive to make it better ;)

​@@karstenmadsen9801the government should build cheap affordable Houses like after World War II simple houses

Says from the wealthiest countries in the world. Rising wages without actual improved productivity just means inflating living expense and backfire yourself 😂😂😂

@@blankspace1126 But you dont rise productivity with more workhours. On the contrary. Historicaly it was shown that workhour regulations helped to increase productivity and inovation. And Innovation was, what helped the productivity the most at least in the past. I guess with more freetime and greater motivation, you also have more time to think and educate yourself about the problems in life (and work), so more you get ambitioned to fix them. And of course, this don´t apply to every single working person, but it seems logical to me.

pay more work less..lol...ao European and other western mentality 😂

governments can start stealing more and more tax from working people, which will boost their lives. In some EU countries, tax rates on income are much too high.

@@brojo355 Talent is leaving NL because there is nothing to motivate you to stay here rather than to move to the US. In long term we'll be far behind the US in purchasing power, productivity and inovation. Salaries are ridiculous compared to the costs, every future increase trickles down to 50% in net salary impact, so actually the country numbs you not to achieve more. At the same time lower classes have it comfortable by working less to keep sucking on social benefits and we keep importing more cheap labor inflating housing prices.

But if people are not working long enough then they have a plenty of time to control their government and that's why automation will actually never allow people to work less. Government will always find a way for people to work more than they should.

There are tons of jobs that will always require a human to do it

​@@soundscape26which jobs?

@@default3740 Can you replace a nurse, a plumber, a lawyer or a firefighter with AI/automation? Or anything related to performative arts.

​​@@default3740Did jobs disappear when Tractors replaced farmers? Even Farmers were not replaced..

Exactly my thoughts, feudalism at it's finest going on in the EU.

That's not all she said. In the next sentence she literally says it's not possible. You're saying the exact same thing as her: if working 8 hours more would lead to the possibility to buy a house, people would, but it's not possible.

With high taxation… why work 10 extra hours if the state will take 50% of your earn money?

I am salaried. I don't get more money for more hrs. No point doing it.

When a house cost around 20-25 years of your salary it does not matter how many extra hours of work you put.

You're welcome to immigrate here! We will receive you with open arms.

It is a Paradise, but you live warm and have good food. Also a paradise 👍😎

For me, it is the Dutch women that make the Netherlands look like paradise.

Yeah, NO. It's actually mostly only people with rich parents who inherited homes who can afford to work less hours or - people sucking heavily on welfare, opting to work less not to make too much money to have their benefits cut. The rest of us struggle financially if we decide to stay one day per week at home with the kid (or pay extra 500+€ for those 4 days in a single month).

Netherlands is by far the most densely populated country in Europe. Many countries are basically empty compared to places like Korea.

In our current rigged system we have monopoly's you cannot compete with ! That's why so many businesses go out of busines !

true and instead what dw is doing is opinionating us into believing that working harder is the solution. they don't talk about these things in this video...

that's cute because Europe doesn't even have the biggest economy anymore and China now is larger than EU combined. Your so called "rich" doesn't even own everything imao.

in 2090 you work 24 hours a day for one meal a week !

There seems to be only shortage with lower paying jobs.

And right wingers love this mentality ! Get rid of minimum wages and workers benefits and it will even get better 🤣

Belgie:)?

@@wojciechpiosik302Croatia, and VAT is 25% also.

To keep the money to CEOs flowing while we can't even afford to have a birth rate of 2.1

To make Europe "more competitive" with the slave regions like Asia and America.

This IS the issue. We are just taxed to heavily. That’s all.

If you’re a drug dealer you get to keep 100% of what you make.

I think you're right about the cause. But I like my high eurotaxes and relaxed life.

@@Ikbeneengeitwhere do you live? In NL it can be only 'comfortable' for a couple with no kids. Starting a family pushes you to poverty with 2.000€ daycare and 2.000€ rent.

I just did my taxes. My total tax rate was 25%, that's social contributions + income tax. I'm in an E.U. country in Eastern Europe with 3 dependents. It's not that bad. The last year I worked in America I paid about 33% total tax rate as a single childless non-home owner.

That is wishful thinking. Remember, those technologies are a part of capital and capital owners will want to capture as much of the added value as possible from these technologies... by removing the workers from the equation.

@@looseycanonLike, how would they? If everyone is poor, no one will buy the products of their company.

@@debasishraychawdhuriThe problem is, wages only determine (in part) consumption. There are four factors in GDP and conversely four different customer basis a company can concentrate on. Consumption is the people and to some degree other businesses. Let's say that is dead, there are still investments, eg. pivot to businesses and produce capital goods and kick the can down the line. Then there is government, which could either print money or tax people more and finally, they could begin to produce strictly for exports...