Architecture in Rotterdam is known to be some of the most innovative and creative architecture in Holland. And even after more than 30 years, the cube houses (Kubuswoningen in Dutch)…
The Netherlands Open Air Museum (Openlucht Museum in dutch) is an open-air museum and park (44 hectares) located near Arnhem, with antique houses, farms and factories from different parts of the Netherlands. It focuses on the culture associated with…
The main thing that makes me curious about alternate economic systems is facts like a top 5% salary in the UK being £80k/year. Statistically that makes you 'rich', but it just.... doesn't. Rich is Lamborghinis and yachts, £80k pre-tax is maybe being able to afford a house in whichever major city you have to live for work and having a rainy day fund. I hate that we all just accept that having even moderate financial stability is to have made it, when in reality homeownership and not retiring below the poverty line should be the literal bare minimum that everyone deserves.
@malwaretech same here in #TheNetherlands. ‘Richness’ is quite fragile, and if you don’t have a top 5% or double income, live is quite hard. And if anything threatens that income, you fall down quite ‘a bit’.
Needless to say that the real rich, as in yachts and Lamborghini’s, are not part of that top 5% income 😉.
It’s beyond me why we put up with all this for so long. My take is that people are quite limited in their worldview and perception of others, the #nimby’s.
Architecture in Rotterdam is known to be some of the most innovative and creative architecture in Holland. And even after more than 30 years, the cube houses (Kubuswoningen in Dutch) remain…
This afternoon. Our lovely lady laid down after walkies to look outside. What do we see?...
It rains, plants are waving in the wind, it rains a bit more.