@Natanox @kaia @eal I'm blessed to have avoided being born either Dutch or German. I lived in the Netherlands briefly though.
Currently I live in a much better place, having an almost 80sqm place to myself and myself only while paying a lot less taxes than I would in the Netherlands.
The principle of supply and demand in the presence of taxes and government regulation (which is effectively another form of tax) is very simple: if you tax something, you get less of it. The reason you get so little money is because most of it is taken away by your government in the form of taxes, either direct (income taxes, VAT) or indirect (fuel tariffs, import tariffs, various licences and certifications, etc). If you want to have more money, tax evasion is a skill that can be learned.
Currently I live in a much better place, having an almost 80sqm place to myself and myself only while paying a lot less taxes than I would in the Netherlands.
The principle of supply and demand in the presence of taxes and government regulation (which is effectively another form of tax) is very simple: if you tax something, you get less of it. The reason you get so little money is because most of it is taken away by your government in the form of taxes, either direct (income taxes, VAT) or indirect (fuel tariffs, import tariffs, various licences and certifications, etc). If you want to have more money, tax evasion is a skill that can be learned.
@newt@stereophonic.space
@m0xee @kaia @Natanox @eal actually, this can be done in the Netherlands. They have a law against evicting squatters somehow. Totally stupid, but it works.
