This is a very common law in european companies and is killing economic growth. Idk why they do this.
The same rule exists in France and you'll have a hard time getting a loan or even a rental if you don't have the sacrosanct CDI (Indefinite Duration Contract), or legal guarantors with one.
It may seem absurd in these edge cases, but it's a way of putting pressure on employers to either hire people for the long term, or let them go.
In this case, it's not necessarily a bad thing in 90% of cases either (because those that don't get permanent employment despite scoring ERCs are certainly very rare), it prevents people from being stringed along in a lab where they're not really building up a career, but rather setting themselves up to be 40 and unemployable, when they're eventually not given the job security the lab would have given 5+ years earlier if they ever intended to/could do so.
May I ask where you're looking? What countries have the best support for you to do your best work?
I tried to get into fundamental research, but disliked the burocratic approach in Dutch universities.
>Communism, in its classical sense, seeks public or common ownership of the means of production and the abolition of private ownership of major productive assets
That's the eventual mathematical outcome of the new Dutch tax on unrealized capital gains, which combined with the fact that the tax system treats inflation as real gains means that over time the state will come to own all productive assets.