u/dhasld

I think it’s good, but the Dutch should logically get it too. They’re wrongfully discriminated.

The idea is that you want the best talent, high income earners, to work in Netherlands and pay lots of taxes. So you want to attract talent. But why do you not attract Dutch talent, it’s more attractive to go to US, salary wise, and I think this country should want to retrain and attract Dutch talent! If the same same requirements of 30% ruling are met from anyone, they should get it.

Propaganda, now has effectively made 2 groups. Left vs Right. Which is a fallacy itself, people’s political opinion is not 1 dimensional, on some subjects you agree on what is formally known as right wing or left.

Propaganda has made it into us vs them, we are completely right and you’re wrong. Whatever side should you be. The herd, they all believe in the same thing, the propaganda narrative.

Look at today, either you’re pro Palestine leftists or pro Israel right wing. Each side believes they’re righteous.

Many people don't know what digital democracy is, so I give a brief introduction.

In short, its a digital implementation of the ancient deliberative democracy. In ancient Greece, citizens gathered on a hill to debate, listen, and reach consensus. Taiwan’s digital democracy model is based on deliberative democracy.

They use social democratic platforms, social media spaces built for respectful, rational conversation where citizens can hear each other, find common ground, and feed that consensus into policy.

It is nothing like our current social media. Social democratic platforms are like a town hall: people take turns, speak respectfully, and focus on solving a problem together. Social media, as we know it, is like a crowded bar fight: everyone yelling over each other, trading insults, and rewarding the loudest voice, not the wisest one.

Taiwan’s democracy runs on four pillars: transparency, accountability, responsibility, and participation.

During COVID, their Public Digital Innovation Space tracked online discussions and identified the threat early. The next flight from China was quarantined, and many passengers tested positive. Crucially, the public had access to the same health data as the Ministry of Health. That transparency meant citizens could deliberate based on facts, and they themselves supported mandatory masks in public. Taiwan achieved this with zero lockdowns.

Very low mortality, zero lock downs and no top to down decisions. Unlike in Netherlands. While the world suffered during covid, Taiwan's economy actually improved. Digital democracy is fast to respond, and critically to respond, not based on propaganda.

This is the flip side of AI and technology. In Taiwan it was used to analyze public opinion and strengthen democracy. But in most of the world, AI is more likely to be weaponized for propaganda, as it has in many places.

I fear, if the world doesn't moves toward digital democracy, we will naturally move towards digital dictatorships, were propaganda manipulates people at a frightening speed. I think digital democracy is needed specially now, to have a fast and responsive democracy that can handle the fast world of today.

Imagine this, Netherlands, has a national wide discussion over the housing crisis. People think together, facts are presented, people's opinion and feelings are analyzed, and experts provide solutions to this complicated problem, and then people can choose what solution they like, and the consensus can be then implemented. Not a governmental collapse and 20 years of bureaucracy.

If you're interested to know more about digital democracy, I highly recommend listening to the ministry of digital of Taiwan, just search "Audrey tang ted talk" on youtube and watch.

I was 6 months in the waiting list for altrecht, which was difficult, then finally I can go to the intake. Guess what? It was all waiting for nothing! They told me they cant provide the care i need because they believe schema therapy is only affective in groups and they only do Dutch. So there is another clinic that does that and they can refer me there. I don’t understand, in the initial screening they told me they can provide it now they cant!

I am so sad and mad. My abandonment trauma got triggered, and im spiralling, suicidal thoughts are back again. Great. I feel worse than before going to altrecht.

Update: i cannot reply to everyone, but thank you for your kind messages. There is kindness in the world still 😭