Why do the Dutch work so few hours, they are still so rich

The rotating windmills, the tulips everywhere, the delicious cheese and the exquisite wooden shoes, we should have guessed that this beautiful country, like a fairy tale, is the Netherlands.

　　Such a place is naturally a desired tourist destination, and what is even more enviable is that the life of the Dutch people is really super laid back.

　　Take the working hours, the Dutch may not even know what the concept of overtime is.

　　A friend living in the Netherlands said: Dutch people either work only three or four days a week, or travel around on vacation, it is not easy to meet a person who works five days a week, not to mention overtime.

　　As early as 2012, the OECD surveyed that the Netherlands has the shortest working hours among all member countries.

　　In 2015, the OECD conducted another survey on working hours covering 38 countries, and the Netherlands ranked second after Germany, with 1,419 hours of work per person per year.

　　That means the average Dutch person works only 27 hours a week, and if they work 8 hours a day, they work just a little more than three days a week ......

　　So the question is, isn't the Netherlands very rich? Why are the working hours so short? How do they earn their money?

　　If you know how the Dutch usually work, this question you will not be confused at all.

　　We have all seen bricklaying, right? Many workers squatting there piece by piece smear cement, and then placed to the appropriate location, a not wide side roads also need a dozen workers at the same time laying, a worker a day also lay a hundred square meters, but also the whole squatting there to accept the scorching sun.

　　But the Dutch? They used the "paving brick copier", pieces of floor tiles like the paper printed from the printer, easy and hassle-free, only four or five workers are needed, but the efficiency is incomparable.

　　Cement asphalt paving is also all automated, requiring a limited number of workers and a limited amount of labor.

　　If the paving is enough to surprise you, you will be even more surprised to see the Dutch build a house.

　　The parts needed for the house are all made in advance in designated factories, including the roof, walls, doors and windows.

　　Then these parts are transported to the construction site and assembled by crane, and it's all done.

　　If the weather is beautiful, such an ordinary house can generally be assembled in a day or two, properly turning an outdoor construction into indoor construction, not only saving manpower and material resources, but also allowing workers to have a better working environment.

　　In addition to the use of high-tech on the construction site, life in the Netherlands is everywhere in the shadow of modernization.

　　For example, the garbage cleanup, garbage collection workers how hard we have seen, in the country is basically a dirty and tired no one wants to do the work, but the Dutch are a minute to collect the garbage dry out a magical realism style.

　　The garbage truck mentioned, a dump, the garbage is all recycled, the whole process staff almost no hands, in the side of the sauce can be.

　　This design makes the city garbage pollution of the environment to a minimum, no odor and no scattering, but also greatly liberated the amount of labor of the cleaning staff, a proper city magic blockbuster ah!

　　In terms of food, the Dutch also save a lot of labor for themselves. We all know that foreigners like to eat burgers, chicken is almost the most they usually eat a meat product, their chicken processing plant is also breathtaking.

　　A live chicken, from knocking, slaughtering, hair removal, head removal, claw removal, gut removal, to sorting, dividing, packaging, the whole process in one go, excluding the middle few links need manual assistance, the other basically all in the assembly line to complete.

　　This fully automated line is a Dutch mechanical company called Foodmate designed and manufactured.

　　The Dutch also grow tomatoes and magic, as if the farmers in the greenhouse greenhouse can call the wind and rain of the great magician, the sky and the ground can do anything.

　　A huge greenhouse seems to be full of fruit in the blink of an eye, except for a little hard work at harvest time, but usually not too much effort from the grower.

　　Basically, all the work that can be done through the machine, the Dutch do not use manpower.

　　They give full play to the results of mechanization, what things are half the effort, it is no wonder that the Dutch usually live such a leisurely life.

　　But you should not think that this is a lazy, lazy people.

　　The time saved in the work of the Dutch is not all used for leisure, but more spent on improving their abilities and specializing in their own preferences.

　　The Netherlands attaches special importance to education, the national education is generally high, in the Netherlands, almost every province has been able to in Europe, and even the world's famous universities.

　　For example, Utrecht University, Leiden University, Amsterdam University and Groningen University.

　　Then there is the language. Excluding Dutch, basically every child is proficient in English by the time they finish elementary school.

　　In addition, the Netherlands has a Germanic culture background, and Dutch is also very close to German, so a considerable number of Dutch people are also proficient in German.

　　Then there are those who will learn French, Belgian, etc. on their own, and many people or businesses have basically no language barrier in the Netherlands.

　　The unparalleled natural beauty and unique cultural atmosphere have also allowed the Netherlands to produce more than 200 famous painters for the world, such as Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hedda and so on.

　　Almost all of them were prolific artists, producing a large number of genre paintings, landscapes and still lifes.

　　It is said that to date, there are still more than 50,000 Dutch paintings in the hands of galleries and private collectors around the world.

　　High welfare benefits, low working hours, highly educated citizens and high income from work, this is probably the life many people dream of!

　　To a large extent, the development of the Netherlands to the present level is also inseparable from the Dutch concept of "human rights first".

　　In the eyes of the Dutch, people are the greatest wealth of the country, "human rights are protected, the rule of law and democracy have more opportunities.

　　If human rights are threatened, oppression and dictatorship will grow." These are probably familiar words to the Dutch.

　　Especially when it comes to defending the rights of defenders, homosexuals, and women, the Netherlands has been a model for countries.

　　The Netherlands was the first country in the world to recognize gay marriage and to allow same-sex couples to adopt children.

　　Even if you are a dying person, you will not be too miserable here.

　　The Netherlands was the first country to legalize euthanasia. Although the practice is still controversial, it is a good way to choose death at a decent time instead of suffering from a painful disease.

　　In the Netherlands, every person, every profession and every kind of love is respected.

　　The Netherlands is a country that seems to have countless labels on it. Windmills, tulips, passion, freedom, all of these speak of the Netherlands.

　　It has the most beautiful fields in the world, and the most tolerant and maverick system in the world.

　　It is as if a woman with a thousand faces, both passionate and understanding.