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That's definitely a drain on your government's tax budget.
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2010-06-17, 16:31 | Link #7825 | |
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Anywhere else, it's two weeks if you're lucky. But I guess you're right on it not having anything to do with government money then
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2010-06-17, 17:28 | Link #7830 |
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Netherlands, job market is fine and it's in the EU so no problem there. Think by now we have the lowest hours worked per year in the OECD. The catch however is that work pressure is high, the amount of work that needs to be done does not decrease.
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2010-06-17, 23:15 | Link #7835 |
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Yep, because Trickle-down economics has been destroying the ability of small businesses to get off the ground since the 80s. It didn't used to be that way though. There used to be a middle class of people who were able to have small businesses (corner stores, neighborhood diners, a woman with a cleaning service that consisted of a van and couple of vacuum cleaners) who were able to hire people. Ever since the 80s these small businesses (which used to be the norm) have been replaced by large corporations. Now, the rich people are the only ones left able to hire people (if they should choose to do so).
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2010-06-18, 03:24 | Link #7839 | |
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That's called a Revolution, and the fact that it did happen several times in Europe and elsewhere is what usually prompts politicians to design a system to avoid it, usually betting on a strong middle class, and in some case promoting the reshaping of their society into a whole middle class. That was part of the American Dream if I recall. And now this dream is slowly fading over, not only in America of course, as more than one 1st World has seen relative pauperisation these last decades. It's maybe only a disillusion of mine, but now as I travel across some so called 1st World Country, I cannot help but seeing them as more and more similar to some so called 3rd World Countries, and not only in the sense of a development of those latter ones.
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