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If you take a step back, what did the netherlands look like 100 years ago? What was the wealth inequality split? How much capital was owned by the elite vs the
by __turbobrew__ 1y ago
If you take a step back, what did the netherlands look like 100 years ago? What was the wealth inequality split? How much capital was owned by the elite vs the commoner?
You will see that the last 70 years have really been an outlier in history due to the great reset of WW2 and the elite losing their wealth. The current trends are actually the return back to historical norms.
The problem here is not green energy sandbagging the economy in NL and making life unaffordable for the commoner, the problem here is that wealth/capital accumulates faster than wages and therefore as the economy slows down an ever growing slice of GDP goes to capital owners.
I would suggest if you want to solve this problem, do not blame the green energy — it is a distraction — instead look to your elected representatives in government to form wealth tax and land tax legislation to curb the positive feedback loop of wealth accumulation, lest you become a serf to the elite again.
Take a look at Thomas Piketty if you are interested in learning more.
- peterspath 1y agoThe rich pay enough in this country. The middle class is enslaved for the bottom 10%, not the top 1%.
- __turbobrew__ 1y agoThis situation has played out in every developed nation, do you really think NL is unique? Look at any country in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, China, … and they all have a huge issue with inflated asset prices (housing, stocks, gold) because wealth is becoming more concentrated and rich people need to park their wealth somewhere, and that somewhere is gold, stocks, real estate, bonds, and mortgages. Also notice that asset prices started increasing across the world way before we had green energy policies. I live in a place where they canceled a bunch of green energy policies (mainly carbon taxes) and guess what happened to asset prices? Nothing. Also note that the top 10% of wealthy people own over 50% of the wealth in NL https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2025/03/56-percent-of-wealth-in-the-hands-of-10-percent-of-households https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2025/03/56-percent-of-wealth-i... If you don’t feel like reading Piketty I would recommend watching this short video which shares a bunch of views with Piketty: https://youtu.be/BTlUyS-T-_4?si=6Lms-8pJTcJm7k7e https://youtu.be/BTlUyS-T-_4?si=6Lms-8pJTcJm7k7e
- peterspath 1y agoAny specific book of him you recommend? I love to read, so will definitely add it to my to read book. I recently read Thomas Sowell's book called Economic Facts and Fallacies which I can recommend.
- __turbobrew__ 1y agoCapital in the Twenty-First Century