The systen is working for them. They are making millions of dollars a year. They have vacation homes all over the world. They have hundreds of people working for them worldwide, not just in Germany. Their workforce in Germany is highly educated, and motivated.
Believe me, Germans vacation all over the world nowadays. Why do you think Lufthansa is flying the world's largest airliner, the Airbus A380, to San Francisco from Frankfurt-am-Main pretty much year-round? Every time I visit Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco I hear a lot of tourists speaking German....