Forget the seven check marks. These are the spreadsheets we do it for
There’s weather an important SCP study out! Dutch society, which is rotting at the head, will not benefit at all from this. But it’s still fun, because we can divide the Netherlands into SEVEN BOXES. There’s even one grote infographic released with all kinds of statistics, and the AD and the Volkskrant and the NRC and all those other buddies have written pieces about it, so we can’t stay behind. THE SEVEN BOXES. After the break.
Working top layer
Drives in a thick BMW company electric car. Lives in own house. Very involved in society and politics, as long as that involvement simply means that he thinks exactly the same as all those other people from the working upper class and it doesn’t take too much effort. Does it well for each other and thinks that is entirely his own merit (well, not quite, because he also sometimes reads a piece by Rutger Bregman, you know). Often thinks: who are those people?
Younger privileged
Says he worries all day about the climate, social inequality and racism, but mainly worries about himself all day long. It is therefore damn little affected by the climate, social inequality and racism, but very much affected by itself. Is on social media all day, but thinks people are on social media way too much.
Rent-earning upper layer
Has robbed the pension pots for the next generations and is enjoying it to the fullest. On holiday six times a year, and then during the time when he is not on holiday, he makes nice objections to the tax in box 3, writes angry letters to the Telegraaf about the fact that the state pension does not increase with the minimum wage and that tipping is low in restaurants.
Working middle class
Is working goddamn all day so that all those other layers don’t have to do that and wants to relax in front of the tube in the evening with The Masked Singer, Married at First Sight, rock grilling once in a while and / or a night of drinking . Finds it very annoying that it can’t just always be fun, but also thinks it’s important to let everyone enjoy themselves because he also allows himself that, well then oh, looking forward to a schnitzel with applesauce.
Low-skilled retiree
Don’t they make the piss lukewarm. Has his built-in shag, his beer pipe and his card and therefore dies a lot earlier than the rest, but GOD DAMN IT MAY. Don’t get upset with all that bullshit and everything gets more expensive and everything gets less, but we’ll make do with it, but in the past you didn’t complain, did you?
Insecure workers
Works the consumption and is still the shaak. Doesn’t quite understand how it all came about, but still has a lot of month left when the money is gone. That is someone else’s fault, and then people may complain that what he says is not quite right, it is just TRUE.
Precariat
Tokkie. Unprofitable. Rapalje. Schorriemorrie. The bobbin.
Not to be put in a box
Oh oh oh how unique you are. Of course you don’t fit into any of these seven boxes. No, that’s way too limited! You are really special. Congratulations, what a unique specimen you are, you are probably the ONLY one in the whole of the Netherlands who does not fit into one of the seven boxes. Great of you.
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