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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.
Germany 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"?
> “Our goal is that the world’s first fusion reactor should be realized in Germany,” This will never happen. At some point they will notice that fusion is something with "nuclear" and "atoms" and they will immediately jump to "scary", "dangerous" and "verboten".
Germany is home to one of the most promising Fusion projects - "Wendelstein 7-X "
All gone now.
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It's boring but otherwise harmless. You skim through 20 pages of legalese and fill out the blanks. Your local goverment office has an advisor who will check the forms together with you before you submit them. (I applied for and received a De-Minimis grant.) Plus for the larger grant types, there are advisory companies that work on commission.
Finally: a good use for LLMs ;)
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thats also not helping, but it's not exactly a secret that German public infrastructure from roads to rails to electricity and whatnot are also all crumbling.
it's hard to build infrastructure when you have dysfunctional labor markets & your tax base is declining in real terms.
And wait till the EU starts paying it's own defense bills without the US, which is what it wants to do. But with money from where? Education? Healthcare? Welfare?
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… 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?
You took in my opinion unfortunately the worst example you could. Unions are by definition bureaucratic because they need to be...
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The CSU has a history of putting people in charge that do not benefit germany but bavaria (the only part of germany where the party CSU is active), e.g. Andreas Scheuer [1][2]. Notable recent examples of corruption are the Maskenaffäre [4] or Julia Klöckner and Nestlé ("Julia Klöckner and Nestlé show how the greasy closeness between politics and business can go too far" [5]). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas…
This ministry will not be lead by any of these people. Their replacement isn't that much better competency wise, but there is no corruption case yet. Your source 3 is not saying what you think it does. State government can apply for federal funding. Söder and his ilk have mastered this. There is nothing corrupt here.
„Source 3“: Well, if you are a minister for infrastructure in germany it is not part of our job description to bring money to bavaria. Maybe my definition of corruption is of but the minister has some saying in how to use its funds and if your home state benefits more than other parts of germany… I would call this a form of corruption
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Didn't we get MP3s this way? Or is that a slightly different pathway
Fraunhofer is (by now) only financed 30% through tax money and 70% comes from the royalties on their past developments like MP3 and H264 and H265 and MPEG-H. Anyway, Fraunhofer gets recurring tax funding. What voize got is a one-off research grant to a group of companies: - voize - Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (a medical university) - Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Berlin (a gove…
https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/about-fraunhofer/profile-struct...
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I have an alternative theory about tech and growth in Europe - the rich are too greedy here and are not optimistic enough about growth. They: a) don’t fund risky things b) don’t believe Europe can create unicorns so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy for their investments c) try to cash out too quickly from potentially huge businesses d) valuations are half the investment for double the equity, so of course the co…
No comment except that 'the rich are too greedy here' is an extremely european explanation for EU economic underperformance.
Do you even disagree that investors try to take a larger equity position in companies in the EU than in the US?