how does one "move" to germany?
doesnt seem like he's a refugee , especially if he left long before current taliban debacle
An Afghan minister who became a bicycle courier in Germany
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#92how does one "move" to germany? doesnt seem like he's a refugee , especially if he left long before current taliban debacle
British citizen, December 2020 -> just before the Brexit deadline. would be my guess.
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My comment is saying they're not transferable 1:1 right there... Even between first world countries they're not transferable 1:1, even within single countries they're not transferable 1:1 But the reality is your friend had an incredible head start going over the same stuff she learned. There's this narrative that high educated people form 3rd world countries all have to end up in menial jobs because somehow a doctor/…
> But the reality is your friend had an incredible head start going over the same stuff she learned. I wouldn't consider an head start to do again your degree once you've done it already in your home country
You wouldn't consider knowing the entire curriculum well enough to have already earned a degree a head start?
Do you know what a head start is?
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#96He should go to the UK.
Learning German and reach fluency at his age is a daunting task.
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Language is probably the biggest roadblock in getting a job in Germany and most people ignore it. German is not easy (my grandmother was a German teacher, some of my family members are of German descent and none of us is speaking any decent German) and Germans are more xenophobic than they will ever admit. Even in my American company meetings with German people sometimes we have very awkward moments when the Germans…
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's a road to hell, and a particularly avoidable one. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sorry, I just tried to give an example why knowing German is essential if you want to work in Germany, nothing else.
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Language is probably the biggest roadblock in getting a job in Germany and most people ignore it. German is not easy (my grandmother was a German teacher, some of my family members are of German descent and none of us is speaking any decent German) and Germans are more xenophobic than they will ever admit. Even in my American company meetings with German people sometimes we have very awkward moments when the Germans…
So Germans speaking their own language in their own country is now xenophobic? (referring to your first paragraph) It‘s true that with the exception of big companies or certain industries much German is spoken at work. Exactly like Spanish in Spain, French in France, Italian in Italy or Portuguese in Portugal. I‘m German myself, mostly living outside Germany. I try to fit in as good as possible, including making an e…
> So Germans speaking their own language in their own country is now xenophobic? (referring to your first paragraph)
How dare they speak their language!? Well, they can't really speak English either, because that would be cultural appropriation.
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All productivity enhancing technology, whether those that emerged in the first industrial revolution, second industrial revolution or information technology revolution, reduce the amount of labor required to do a task, and thereby increase how much the population as a whole produces, leading to wages increasing. The decline in wage growth since the 1970s does not appear to be due to any special properties of more rec…
It took over a century for the median wage in Great Britain to return to pre-industrial levels after the first industrial revolution. > reduce the amount of labor required to do a task... leading to wages increasing. I'm not aware of this "reduced demand leads to increased prices" economic theory. Can you tell me where I can read more about it? Great Britian increased it's total output while wages fell dramatically.…
>>It took over a century for the median wage in Great Britain to return to pre-industrial levels after the first industrial revolution.
I don't know what you're referring to, as all the graphs I've seen have shown a general upward trend in UK wages over the last three centuries. Maybe you could provide a source. What I do know is that per capita productivity, which is almost entirely a function of labor saving innovation, is strongly correlated with average and median wages, and is widely established to be the primary determinant of per capita income.
>>I'm not aware of this "reduced demand leads to increased prices" economic theory. Can you tell me where I can read more about it?
It doesn't reduce demand. It increases demand. Demand, in economics, is defined as purchasing power intent on consumption. As productivity increases, so does production, and with it real (inflation-adjusted) spending, as people having more goods/services with which to bid on scarce resources like labor.
Here's an explanation for how automation raises wages:
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6717/economics/the-luddit...
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> But the reality is your friend had an incredible head start going over the same stuff she learned. I wouldn't consider an head start to do again your degree once you've done it already in your home country
You wouldn't consider knowing the entire curriculum well enough to have already earned a degree a head start? Do you know what a head start is?
Head start in the uni maybe, not head start in life.
And also the program would be in a language that you never learned as first language and you don't even master it so yes, is not an head start at all to me.