[j4yav]

Agreed, it will also be debated by our elected representatives next week.

In the end Dutch people tend to be pragmatic and I suspect it will be dismantled again, but we will see. At the same time, there is a strong sense of societal fairness and that being rich shouldn’t be able to buy you exceptions. In the meantime it is a real discussion that is happening, not anti-billionaire propaganda that no actual citizens care about.

[ldiracdelta]

Again? So this has happened before without a hitch? How too about the societal fairness of employeeing thousands of shipbuilders. Jobs matter too.

[j4yav]

That’s right, jobs matter too and that’s the discussion that’s happening (otherwise they would presumably just keep the promise to not take it back apart).

For what it’s worth, it didn’t go off the previous time without a hitch, it ended up being covered with scaffolding for over a year I believe. That was where the promise to never do it again originally came from.