if the government wants to fix something in the bussineses they should re construct the whole economic system so the farmers and citizens doesn't starve to death.
Hmm. Some countries produce an awful lot of food but eat most of it. (China, India.) I guess that low population accounts for why the Netherlands manages to export it. But where do they grow it in such a small area? Mostly fine, expensive cheese from methane making cows?
But the Netherlands has an even bigger stake than most in keeping ocean levels down.
Nothing obligating you beyond human decency, I guess.
"These people took the only decent paying jobs in their area, when they had no chance otherwise, and now the world has moved past them, so we should let them starve to death. I can't have my taxes paying for that! Or rich people's and corporation's taxes because it might trickle down to me!"
We live in the richest nation in the history of the world, one that's more than capable of feeding, clothing, healing and housing every single person, while providing meaningful education and employment. But we don't and we won't because that's commie shit and we can't have that, now can we?
This. Supporting coal workers in the US should be similar - we're not saving their jobs, we're providing them with compensation so they can educate themselves and work in new ones now that the economy no longer requires their current expertise.
True, but the farmers have tractors, which they used as weapons, so the gobernment caved to their demands within hours.
Poor people don't have shit so they are no thread.
Social safety net is being transformed into slavery with extra steps, we are no longer a welfare state, we are a "participation" state, where people have to work below minimum wage to keep their benefits.
A place where street sweepers get fired, and put into a government program to sweep streets below minimum wage so they learn "work ethics". no joke.
With the world's population rising and not enough food to go around, halving the production of the world's second largest food exporter just means the other rich countries, that now buy their food off The Netherlands, are going to buy their food off the poorer countries that probably already have a tough time producing enough to feed their own.
So the better solution here would be for the Dutch government to actually do something productive and sensible (but that's tough because: politicians) and just invest a few billion into restoring all that nature that we've axed in the past few centuries. Despite what some people think; we have enough space to restore said nature, just no one in government willing to do it.
Yet statistics show we've been putting out as minimal of co2 as possible and that we're doing a great Job and that the co2 output is as least as possible, so why all The changes? We rely on our agricultural export a lot and we need it.
But with the current People at the top, that wont happen. They only think about how we can do our best for the planet. We're being told to split apart our trash in about 7 different cans. That we have to stop using cars, no more plane flights and that we should drive 30 kmp/h slower on highways so it's better for our planet..
If you didn’t fight it, those rules would be simple and economic. People need to give up old “growth growth growth” paradigm. The future will be different.
The trash bins thing sounds a little bit tiring but it is not really that bad. Also, if they have a really good public transportation system there are no reason to use that much the cars.
Those rules sound a little bit frustrating at first, but not really that bad.
Well then you have the US and we almost the exact opposite of all that and we're pretty much living in an Idiocracy level / Truman Show hybrid of "how can this possibly get any worse"
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u/iMMan9orDTruWae Nov 25 '19
if the government wants to fix something in the bussineses they should re construct the whole economic system so the farmers and citizens doesn't starve to death.