Germans must work more and for longer, Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said on Wednesday as he outlined his plans for reforming the struggling German economy.
Germans must work more and for longer, Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said on Wednesday as he outlined his plans for reforming the struggling German economy.
No, there is a point of diminishing returns. And there are many much more important things they could fix. The infrastructure in germany is crumbling, our IT-competence is lacking, our industry relied on never ending sales of ice-cars with bad software (and gov.-bailouts, which the corrupt CDU and SPD are happy to provide). 50% of the populations wealth was inherited, we desperatly need a wealth-tax. We need foreign workers, but they are met with (structural) racism, a rising Afd, terrible buerocracy and so on. We should be investing in renewables, but our current gov is going for gas and oil - while the Globe is biting there nails because the global market for fossil fuels is… In turmoil, let’s say. Germany as a production-focussed industry will come to an end. Decades of Investments in the far east are taking their toll. The only resource the country has is engineering. We should focus on education and building up specialised industry, not longer work hours. That will solve none of the countrys problems in the short run, nor in the long run.
With all the problems you describe, and I agree they exist, solving them will require more labor. Streets, solar panel installations, education, better public services, IT services… All of those require more labor, more work. It’s a part of the solution but not the only one.