The number of civil servants in the Netherlands is around one million(915,000). This does not include the number of people who provide services or products to that same government and are completely dependent on it. The Netherlands has around 10.7 million inhabitants in the working age category, so almost 10% of working Holland is employed by the government.
If you add in the hired forces (consultants, training agencies, specialized externs, etcetera), the number of people working for the state is probably quite a bit higher.
Take, for example, those hired externals. That's where (at the last known measurement) €1.7 billion went in 2020, and that number seems to have been rising for a few years. So while the number of civil servants would go down, the number of hired externals is increasing. Sounds a bit like it's more lucrative to be hired as a ZZP and that way you're basically still working for the state, but better paid.
Then you have a lot of areas that are actually semi-government and areas that do services to the government. There are no figures of those. Even the so-called fact checkers keep their lips sealed. There is no mention anywhere of the number of people working indirectly for the state.
For example, the people who work in the ICT sector. Do they work for the government? No, usually not, but the state is often their biggest customer. All those million civil servants need PCs, laptops, phones, internet and big data systems. So if you work for an ICT company, you usually work indirectly for the government. The latest 2017 number shows that's already 377,000 people.
Banks, then? ABN AMRO, for example, was bought by the Dutch state. How many people work at the ABN AMRO? And the ING? No, that is not a state bank, but it is, for example, the home banker of the Public Prosecutor's Office and received state aid in 2008 to stay afloat.
Insurance companies, then? No, they are also private, but health insurance companies do regulate mandatory health insurance. The accountancy industry, the legal profession, lawyers, consulting firms, collection agencies, bailiff's offices, and so on and so forth, and many more industries that make sure that everything and everyone in the Netherlands neatly follows the rules and has their accounts in order.
And all those government buildings have to be built, cleaned and maintained. Are the people working in those sectors civil servants? No, but they do depend on the money that flows to them from the government. Not to mention companies, organizations or individuals who receive subsidies. For example, an artist does not work for the government, but if you put your hand up there you are dependent on it.
What about the media? Do the media work for the state? Well no, officially not of course. And all the content production for social media for the benefit of state propaganda? Does the band "The State" work for the state? The laundry list could go on and on.
It should not be surprising that these figures are not known, because if it turned out that over half of all Dutch people are directly or indirectly dependent on the state, that would be too enlightening. Why is that too enlightening? Well, what about the will and mentality to bring about a major change? What was the saying again?
"Whose bread one eats whose word one speaks"
You are listening to Tucker Carlson explain what Joe Biden's 'Inflation Reduction Act' actually means and why Americans are hardly ever in opposition (because many work for the state ). With Rutte, Kaag and Wopke going into emergency consultations at the Catshuis today (read; 'As the media show to introduce the Dutch version of this Inflation Reduction Act begins today'), we can be sure that we will start to see more or less the same thing in the Netherlands as in the US: gift more money at the front (is more dependency) to snatch it back at the back.
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"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."
Spot on!!! 😉
If you also include those who depend on the government for benefits such as WAO, AOW, WIA, Social Security and WAJONG and (the rapidly growing group) who depend on an increasing number of allowances, you quickly get to 70 to 80% of the population.
And this percentage is going to increase even more in the near future due to rising prices (mainly caused by taxes) of energy and food.
It will go to the 90% of the population and that is exactly what the government wants because the 10% that remains who can save themselves is largely made up of "insiders," that is, rich folks who are in a Masonic lodge or in high positions within business or wherever and they are guaranteed to be in the Masonic lodge.
So then you get a population of which 90% depend directly or indirectly on the government for his/her sustenance and 10% who are part of the oppressors.
Oh shit this looks like the society of around the year 1100 when about 10% of the population consisted of nobles and their staff (including the military) and the nobility who served as officials. The rest worked as slaves for the nobles.
Exactly! Thanks for the addition. Totally agree.