This will not work. Germany is totally driven by lawyers. No room for new ideas. Everybody is doing ass covering instead of working together building something great
Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
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Re: Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
#92Germany has no national idea, they have no reason why an average burger should work his/her ass off competing with Chinese/American/Indian scientists and working 80 hr/week on cutting edge research. Germans are smart and capable, but the German lifestyle is not for "super high tech" industry
You mean as opposed to the American national idea of "work or starve, bitch"?
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s your proposal? Give up?
We should stop treating any kind of patriotism and German culture like it is from the devil.
Sounds like you kinda just want an excuse to vote AfD without pointing to an element of their policy platform you think the rest of us should support too.
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#94This will not work. Germany is totally driven by lawyers. No room for new ideas. Everybody is doing ass covering instead of working together building something great
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are their people worse off?
It depends on what you are looking at. For example there is increasing consensus that Merkel's "black-zero" budget requirements set the stage for today's collapsing German infrastructure and lack of productivity growth due to decreased public investment.
Think it has much more to do with traditional EU regulator attitudes around the dual of labor & capital markets. Both are very dysfunctional in Europe, with labor probably slightly edging out in terms of dysfunction.
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#96> also plans to woo scientists from abroad
but also god forbid you arrive to Germany with <C1 German. ABH office is waiting with guns fully loaded
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The problem is not the bureaucracy. I'm no expert by any means, but have you ever actually worked with Germans? The existence of Betriebsräte (Workers' Councils, as implemented in Germany), while not necessarily 'bad', comes with a mountain of bureaucracy...
… yeah, never give rights to workers! Back to the middle ages again! Betriebsräte are actually a really sane measure once you think about it. And the more intelligent managers take them as an asset.
Did you completely miss the "while not necessarily 'bad'" part of my post?
Re: Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
#98Germany has no national idea, they have no reason why an average burger should work his/her ass off competing with Chinese/American/Indian scientists and working 80 hr/week on cutting edge research. Germans are smart and capable, but the German lifestyle is not for "super high tech" industry
The people I know that do cutting-edge research mostly do it because it's fun. That might be hard to imagine, but if you have great (government-funded) local hackerspaces where you can meet others, talk to them and built stuff together, it becomes a viable free-time activity. For example, I can schedule a Prusa (FDM) / Form (SLA) / Fuse (SLS) print job remotely and then quickly walk there to pick it up. If I need cus…
That's all good and well, but the very time you would try to start selling your tinkering, or, God forbid, hire somebody - that's where the hell begins.
Being a self-employed is a living hell in Germany, as well as receiving any money outside of employment. Esp. if money are small (but > than hobby money, 500 euro iirc) and don't justify the hurdle of dealing with Finanzamt, tax pre-payment, possible regulations with upfront Formulars etc.
Re: Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
#99The phrase “super-high-tech ministry” doesn’t sound like the correctly nuanced translation of Super-Hightech-Ministeriums. In English, it begs the question whether they are really serious — why isn’t it “super-duper-high-tech” or “ultra-high-tech” or “hyper-high-tech”? Calling something “super-X” in English sounds a little marketingspeak-clumsy and opens you up to these jibes.
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#100Black_13 appears to be shadowbanned so I'm reproducing their comment here: black_13 11 minutes ago [dead] | parent | context | unvouch | favorite | on: Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for res... The cynicism in these comments is telling, but misses crucial realities about Germany's capabilities and social achievements. Yes, Germany creates bureaucracies. Yes, Dorothee Bär's digital infrastructure record is…
>Black_13 appears to be shadowbanned so I'm reproducing their comment here:
Pity this happens, I was looking at his posts, and most of them seem to have a higher degree of original thought than most other HN posters.