Zijlstra's dangerous sentence

So it really is there. In the Explanatory statement by State Secretary for Culture Zijlstra on the final legislative amendment that makes the culture cut permanent:

The consquences of this sentence go rather far. Of at least 25,000 workers in the subsidised cultural sector, the vast majority work part-time. Often a job of three days a week, sometimes two, sometimes four. With a three-day job, paid somewhat according to the collective bargaining agreement, but often below that, you usually work six days. That's how it is in the arts: you love your work so much, you take low pay at face value. So those fanatical part-timers now have no work alongside it, because no time. They barely make ends meet on the three-day salary they have now.

Very nonchalantly, Zijlstra now argues that they should work more on top of their cramped cultural jobs. Logical. If your job goes from three to two days a week, your income is no longer sufficient to support a small family in a rented house. So you have to get an extra job of at least two days. So if those jobs are already there, it means a loss of an entire workforce for the institution where the part-timer works. Because that person can no longer work unpaid overtime. So that institution suddenly has to hire someone extra, and there is precisely no more money for that. That could well mean the end of the institution.

Due to an unintended but extremely large side effect of austerity.