Top comment: "They are too incompetent and corrupt for that."
https://www.transparency.org/en/news/cpi-2023-highlights-ins...
Measuring corruption versus measuring perception of corruption. The former requires evidence of corruption.
Jürgen Schmidhuber – Can All-Purpose Robots Fuel a Comeback?
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#72Top comment: "They are too incompetent and corrupt for that." https://www.transparency.org/en/news/cpi-2023-highlights-ins... Measuring corruption versus measuring perception of corruption. The former requires evidence of corruption.
https://www.politico.eu/article/e36b-tax-fraud-scandal-retur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CumEx-Files
The problem with that index is that each culture reacts differently to corruption. In some cultures, if a public servant buys a coffee using the company card, that's a scandal, and some of those cultures have a reputation for being corrupt. In Germany, everyone downplays corruption for some reason. But I see it everywhere, especially in everything that had to do with public funds. But it's never called corruption, so corruption does not exist because it is never acknowledged.
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#74No - (skin-like) sensors and (muscle-like) actuators are still not up to the task.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO, it's a culture thing. Even German software companies think writing software is low-status and try to outsource as much of it as possible to Eastern Europe.
Eastern European developers are pretty awesome, in my experience. Otherwise I agree.
> Eastern European developers are pretty awesome, in my experience.
Absolutely!
nb: I married to one, so I know. :)
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#76I think he makes a good point about immigration. Immigration is not going to save Germany, because Germany is not an attractive destination. The only people who move to Germany are the ones who failed to get a VISA from an English speaking country, and even those will leave as soon as they gain enough experience to reapply for a VISA. The only way forward is for Germany to really invest in its own population and to r…
I disagree. The main downside of moving to Germany - or any other EU country except Ireland - is the need to learn German (or French etc) if you want to fully participate in daily life. Other than that, the quality of life is better compared to USA. Example: EU Bluecard better than H1B and Greencard, health care, public safety, public transportation, walkable cities,... even now, I would recommend Berlin over San Fra…
> I would recommend Berlin over San Fransciso
In most capacities except for salary.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is true that Germany (and Europe as a whole) suffers from a less than ideal investment and innovation landscape. The companies you mentioned, however, worked on products that barely make any sense. It is clear that those kinds of companies will not (and should not) survive outside of 0% interest paradigms.
I think, other countries would help these companies pivoting to defense/military applications. Munich in Germany is basically stuck during rush hour. Flying ambulance or cop car sounds good to me. And such application would be with high probability successful export product.
We already have Airbus Helicopters development and production in that area (Donauwörth).
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
German software is SAP. Every other software from them is made in Poland, Romania, Belarus, and Russia.
IMO, it's a culture thing. Even German software companies think writing software is low-status and try to outsource as much of it as possible to Eastern Europe.
It's the eastern european development strategy. Have lower taxes on software engineering to grow that industry.
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#79Top comment: "They are too incompetent and corrupt for that." https://www.transparency.org/en/news/cpi-2023-highlights-ins... Measuring corruption versus measuring perception of corruption. The former requires evidence of corruption.
https://www.politico.eu/article/e36b-tax-fraud-scandal-retur... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CumEx-Files The problem with that index is that each culture reacts differently to corruption. In some cultures, if a public servant buys a coffee using the company card, that's a scandal, and some of those cultures have a reputation for being corrupt. In Germany, everyone downplays corruption for some reason. But I see it e…
"The problem with that index is that each culture reacts differently to corrruption."
100%.
Cheers for the references.
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Or Dieter Schwarz, founder of Lidl
Yeah the famous innovators and entrepreneurs Schwarz group. Launched in 1930 and receiving European Bank loans to expand in Eastern Europe.
Hmm.. I was referring to rich Germans not to innovative Germans.
That aside the Schwarz Group is building their own Cloud business.. and they were one of the very few large companies that dared to NOT use SAP but build their own stuff. Not sure this counts as innovation but it's worth mentioning.
edit: I just re-read the GP comment and I get it now.. it was only doubting that there are people who recently accumulated riches.. then of course Schwarz would be a bad example :)