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A Van Zanten comic for the economist magazine ESB. Theme: labour productivity. My translation: 1) Man: Labour productivity is hardly growing. I know the reasons! 2) My colleagues are looking at their mobile phones all day, checking their social media, spreading fake news, booking airbnb’s and organising childcare. In between, we scrum and make to-do-lists. This way, we keep ourselves busy, but can we call that work? O no. 3) Man: Tell me honestly, what do you do in a working day? 4) Don’t worry about my productivity. I only have to fill a few images in ESB every month.

Een Van Zanten-strip voor het economische tijdschrift ESB. Thema: arbeidsproductiviteit.

A new Van zanten cartoon for the economist magazine ESB. Theme: pension system – a major reform on the system is agreed upon in the Netherlands. My transaltion: 1) VZ: Pension system. 2) – 3) VZ: Typical reaction! He will change his tune when he will be 66 years old.

Van Zanten-strip voor het economische tijdschrift ESB. Het thema was deze keer het nieuwe pensioenakkoord.

A comic for the economist magazine ESB, about private debts. My translation: 1) Man: I have debts, but I don’t feel guilty about them. 2) Man: I live up to the budget rules of the European Union. I spend 3% more than my gross salary. My debt is not higher than 60% of my gross salary. 3) Man: And when I spend more, then I follow the EU attitude towards Italy: softness. I leave it to my children and grandchildren to pay off my debts. 4) Man: Another coffee? I pay. VZ: In that case, I’d like to have an apple cake with it.

Een strip voor het economische tijdschrift ESB over private schulden.

A comic for the economist magzine ESB, about ‘Immigration and Integration’. Only yesterday you could read or see in the dutch news that young people with a immigration background have problems finding jobs – they just get invited as often as others after sending their job application letter. My comic illustrated another research project, with similar results. My translation: ‘My classmates with an immigration background are 20% less likely to find a job quickly after having finished their education. – Don’t you dare to make a joke about that in your cartoon!’

Een stripje voor het economenblad ESB over ‘Immigratie en Integratie’. Gisteren was nog een onderzoek in het nieuws dat mensen met een migratie-achtergrond moeite hebben bij het vinden van een baan – ze worden simpelweg niet zo vaak uitgenodigd als anderen na het sturen van een sollicitatiebrief. Mijn stripje hoorde bij een ander onderzoek, met soortgelijke bevindingen.

I forgot to post one of my Van zanten comics… so two cartoons this time.

Ik vergat één van mijn Van Zanten-strips te plaatsen… daarom deze keer twee strips.

The first one (as always for the economist magazine ESB) is abour consumer confidence. My translation: 1) Consumer confidence? Confidence in economic growth? To be honest, I do not have confidence in anything. 2) I have no confidence in weather forecasts, in politics, in estimates of the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, in banks, in multinationals, in my own neighbour. 3) I have no confidence that the world will be fine. Still, this has its good side… 4) Every day exceeds ones expectations!

De eerste is er een over consumentenvertrouwen. Zoals altijd voor het economische tijdschrift ESB.

The second one is about money, a new kind of money. My translation: Man on the left: Well, they invented a new kind of money… digital central bank money. VZ: Great! I almost ran out of my old kinds of money.

De tweede strip gaat over geld, een nieuwe geldsoort zelfs!

A Van Zanten comic for the economist magazine ESB, this time about ‘costs of raw materials’. My translation: 1) Environmental damage caused by extraction and production of raw materials, is invisible in product prices. I took a look at my clothes. 2) Acryl or fleece: fossil sources, plastic fibres in enviroment; Cotton: high water usage, lots of pesticides and chemicals are used; Wool: lots of farmland used, use of chemicals during processing; Polyester: fossil sources, use of chemicals, plastic fibres in environment; Leather: use of chemicals during processing. 3) Fortunately, the underwear I wear is organic, from a renewable source – my own garden.

Een Van Zanten-strip voor het economische maandblad ESB, deze keer over de (soms onzichtbare) kosten van grondstoffen.