As a working guy in the Netherlands, still having a job, not a lot has changed for me. My diet has changed a lot, due to problems with the food-supply, but that’s about it. I still drive a car to work although I have fallen back to car-pooling (which I already did for years in the past). I still live with my parents and given the circumstances have postponed buying a house, even though I can easily afford it in the current housing market. Instead I have decided to invest my money.

 

Ofcourse there are plenty of companies who have invented the perpetuum mobile and just need some money to commercialize, after which we will all get rich. There’s always something fishy about these companies though.

 

Other companies are facing ‘temporary’ set-backs and just need my investment money to keep afloat untill the crisis ends. Who says this crisis will end though?

 

Then I noticed a different type of companies. Investment companies that buy up companies that went bankrupt. And not just any company that went bankrupt. Companies that have no markets for their produce at all. Often high-tech companies. Companies that make airplane components. Or high-tech defence equipment. Electronic components. Most of the companies they buy are unique. All their competition went bankrupt as well. Investment companies are just keeping their know-how alive and letting them run on a slow pace. Generally only to supply spare parts. Even if that means taking a loss. One day governments will decide to buy new defence equipment, airlines will need new efficient airplanes and consumers will need to replace their laptops. And I will indirectly hold a small share in the only company that can supply the components.