In many parts of Europe, it’s common for workers to take off weeks at a time, especially during the summer. Envious Americans say it’s time for the U.S. to follow suit.
Some 66% of U.S. workers say companies should adopt extended vacation policies, like a month off in August, in their workplaces, according to a Morning Consult survey of 1,047 U.S. adults.
As an American, I want that sweet sweet Netherlands lifestyle so bad in the US.
Nederlanders actually are able to talk to each other, come up with solutions to intractable problems, and plan beyond the next political cycle. They also have empty churches.
It starts by having Proportional Vote which then feeds-into and feeds-off a culture of political consensus.
This is unlike all those Potekin-Democracies out there - some worse than others - with electoral circle systems (worse, single representative ones with First Past The Post) mathematically rigged to create a duopoly of power which are associated with a “everything has two and only two sides” political and news culture and passing as “politics” and “ideology” something which is nothing more than a shouty circus of us-vs-them focused on the things that make the least difference, to distract from the absence of real choice for those things which do matter because they dictate lifetime outcomes and every day affect people’s quality of life and how they are treated (tons of bullshit about identity but complete total consensus with total descriminationo on and maximizing the outcomes and dynastic nature of wealth).
I’ve lived in a couple of countries in Europe with different voting systems and of those Nederland is well ahead the others, especially the ones with voting systems using purellly electoral circles (the UK - which has single choice FPTP electoral circles and an unellect monarch - was especially bad) - I firmly believe that real democratic choice is behind a lot of it (though culture too) and think the greatest problem in the West is a lack of democracy were most people trully are represented rather a theatre of “democracy” were all they can do is choose an “evil” (sold to them as the “lesser” one).
True but then again they’ve been supporting the current government, which has been dismantling all the great support systems for so long, whilst being marred in scandals that always ended with the prime minister claiming “I can’t remember doing that”, that I’m honestly wondering what humanity can do to protect itself against stupid…
Let’s revisit this after the next elections.
Yes, we’re doing better than many other countries in many metrics, but we can all see the slide we’re on.
Sounds like a waste of real estate
Get the lighting right and they become real nice market places or bars!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradiso_(Amsterdam)
This is such a crock of shit. If NL needed Federal approval from everyone between Portugal and Greece, your solutions would be pretty DOA too. It has nothing to do with some weird Dutch superiority complex.