Klaas Knot, who was the president of the Dutch bank for 14 years, said that we should pay more attention to the strong sectors in the Dutch economy. Not so strange: the gas revenues are disappearing, agriculture and animal husbandry are under pressure, more and more industry disappears. We are too casual under it.
Job panic
In the case of job panic, women are the first victims because they usually work part-time. So we have to be alert. None heard anything about in a talk show. And it’s about income. Everyone thinks there will always be benefits, but they must be earned.
I thought I lived in a strong economic area, ‘t Gooi, until I went to Eindhoven last week. There is a relaxed, but above all optimistic atmosphere about what is going on. Of course we all know that ASML, the chip manufacturer, is growing enormously, but what I did not know is that almost a thousand extra companies have been added last year alone. And that there have hundreds of women technical jobs. Unfortunately you don’t see that in the clothing stores: I found them moderate for such a big city.
Bubble
And then you get the effect of a bubble: I came across a well-known ex-politician from The Hague and asked him if he might be shown in The Hague after the elections. He answered: ‘What do you think? It goes here like a train, the people are relaxed and nice, the growth is huge and then I will work in that grumpy The Hague? No way! ‘
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So things are going well and because of that bubble, good people stay in place and it is 0-1 for the Randstad again.
I sat on a terrace and to my wonder I saw three teenagers ordering a bottle of Veuve Cliquot (a very good champagne) of 90 euros per bottle. They clocked the champagne as if the water was.
They still know how to enjoy the good life in the south, which is a lot easier if everyone earns a lot of money.
There is a kind of anti-industry mood in the Netherlands, but we cannot afford it at all.
Excite
There is no coincidence: yesterday I heard the employers say that if it continues the industry disappears from the Netherlands. The energy costs are higher than in the countries surrounding us, the government is unreliable. Let’s get excited about really important things and do not interfere with foreign circumstances that we cannot change. Because if we are unemployed without benefits, then we really have a problem.
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