This is how purchasing power feels in your wallet: ‘Wealth is that you can buy a house with your money, and that is not the case’ | Inland

Three Dutch people about CBS figures

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Amsterdam – The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) and Leiden University come with an avalanche of surprising news: purchasing power has increased by almost 60 percent since 1977, the tax and social security burden has fallen by percentages since 1985 and income inequality is small in the Netherlands. and has been stable for years. So it seems to be going much better than many people think. Three Dutch people tell what they notice in their wallets. Cees Troost (74): “We have had it richer in all respects than the generations after us.”