Comments by "TheEVEInspiration" (@TheEVEInspiration) on "Populist FvD Rockets to Prominence in Dutch Elections" video.

  1. ​ @yuriklaver4639  Incentives matter, that is true and it does not even start there. Policies shape incentives, companies hiring shape incentives. Pay people bad or make work otherwise non-beneficial and the incentive to not work hard is created. Can't blame the outcome on the ones with the boot on their throat. So far the answer has been to bring other people in, which is only worsening this process. And the human capital loss, long-term will be phenomenal.
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  2. That is the lazy way to think about it. I know people that work all the time but it just does not pay enough to live here and have a decent life. Much of the problem is actually from outsourcing low wage jobs to foreigners and very low-wage countries, while increasing the cost of living. We have a progressive tax system that begins to put the financial screws on way before reaching even a median income (this keeps most people relatively poor). As soon as you get above median income, you find you have to pay 50% direct income tax from there (insane). Work simply does not pay, the basic living cost are artificially made extremely high in comparison. And we give every non-inhabitant all financial preferred treatment one can think off. And just when the population would shrink, giving the post boomer generations some economic opportunities (at last), the policy becomes to suffocate them with unfair outside competition and accelerated mass-immigration. The boomers in power are slave drivers, them telling younger generations they are just lazy makes no sense, its a lie to keep on stealing wealth from their children trough the state while moral grandstanding. Its no wonder there are people that just give up working at some point, what does it matter if everything gets stolen under a threat of force anyway? Every generation has its flaws, but not wanting to work is not one of them. Expecting people to work for noting without prospects, while others that do less bathe in undeserved wealth and benefits is just cruel.
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  3. In the face of automation, growing populations is the worst strategic policy ever, it just creates a new problem down the line (like the boomer shadow that lasted nearly a century). So yes, restructuring is what is needed and in a coherent way. Else it gives rise to special interest groups going to band-aid their short term problems like is happening now with importing people to keep unneeded production going and profits high (at the expense of the bulk of the working population).
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