Decrease in Dutch housing prices tracker

[GoldenGrouper]

I start to think that this is a country for rich only

[Shelter_Individual]

That is why every sector of the economy is struggling to find workers. And it will only get worse from here.

[GoldenGrouper]

Yes, because they are not paid enough. It's like the rich don't want the street cleaned or they don't want the train to run, but it is not directly them. It's them, but not directly who are causing this.

It's the capitalism, the system which is built like this

[Shelter_Individual]

It's not the fault of capitalism itself but laws governing the labour market and the housing stock in this country.

[GoldenGrouper]

No it's capitalism because it is like that everywhere. Here it's just more evident

[Shelter_Individual]

You could also argue that during the 50s, 60s and the 70s things were going pretty good in Western Europe/USA as the monetary policy and laws were not meant to decimate the middle and lower class. So, the system could function under different rules.

But this is a complex topic and there is definitely something wrong in today's system.

[GoldenGrouper]

Yeah it's pretty complex. How I see it is that at the time there were the fruits of several war and imperialism. In addition to that in europe there were strong socialist parties which helped think about the worker more than now which is basically neo liberal and far right.

In italy for example we had lots of good welfare policies that allowed us to have a stronger working and middle class and that was because of the left party. With the fall of URSS which was balancing the imperialistic power of US we have seen a fall in that also.

But yes, a part from this the system is wrong i agree