Posted on 08/22/2023 4:18:01 PM PDT by Rummyfan
It is hard to believe, but Germany is on its way to becoming a post-industrial country. What its economy will look like at that point is anyone’s guess, but it won’t be pretty.
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But it is all right. Who needs to make products, anyway?
More broadly, the 61-year-old academic said Germany was “too reliant on car manufacturing.”
Around 800,000 people work for car makers in Germany, many in highly-paid jobs.
The country is home to Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW and Porsche, and produces around 25pc of all passenger cars manufactured in Europe.
However, the industry has been slow to realise the significance of the shift to electric and been left flat-footed as a result.
“Flat-footed” means they are manufacturing vehicles the public wants to buy.
Ms Schnitzer said: “Germany as a whole is very much dependent on car manufacturing, and many executives were not happy to change what they saw as a winning business model.”
Right. The “change” is being driven by politicians and ignorant (and minority) political factions, i.e. the Greens. More:
More broadly, she argued that Germany’s economy must fundamentally reorganise to reflect the political tensions between the East and West, and the fact that the era of cheap energy appears to be over.
The era of cheap energy isn’t over, the problem is that the era of government-mandated expensive energy has arrived. In Germany, anyway.
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Morgenthau Plan
My first thought. Omar Bradley complained that the Morgenthau Plan was worth 30 divisions to the Nazis. It stiffened German resistance.
This is fine
NO more will “made in Germany” be used on any products because all production will end there.
Okay children, time for your German lesson. Repeat after me: Schadenfreude.
What is with governments destroying their own countries ? To make the disaster Global government ?
I didn’t see it mentioned in the article, but the high cost of electricity in Germany has been driving out manufacturing for awhile now.
‘Renewables’ can’t support a modern economy, and we are seeing that first hand here.
One word covers it all. Horseshit. Brains full of horseshit, mouth spewing the same, outcome is the same.
Sheer idiocy.
“”the era of cheap energy appears to be over.””
The Era of allowing inexpensive energy is over.
There, fixed it.
“NO more will “made in Germany” be used on any products because all production will end there.”
According to what I’ve read German industry is relocating to the US. Although few articles even hint at why, the problem appears to be the cost of energy and hyper-regulation.
I think Musk’s Tesla factory is one of the few big new deals there and the PTB are shorting him on water supply.
I did notice one thing in the article.
There was no mention that the krauts, on their own, cut off the cheapest source of fuel on the planet. Not that that matters. RIGHT!
Of course, crazy big-guy Joe helped when he blew up the pipeline. Give him a little bit of the credit.
Well, let’s just note that Merkel before leaving office had taken to referring to the German people not as Germans but as “people living in germany.” Cultural suicide. History in the making.
Oh no, the engineers who design turn signals for BMW are going to be forced into meaningless jobs.
/sarc
The Germans are engaging in one of their periodic episodes of self destruction - this time for Gaia Worship.
They will continue sacrificing to Gaia until their economy is completely ruined and they are shivering in the darkness and starving. Even then they will only very grudgingly change course. The excuses about how they just didn’t execute it properly will continue for some time after that. I will be many years before they can admit it was all insanity.
Fortunately, the Gaia Worshipers in Germany are also against Nuclear power which would have provided a means to keep the lights on without having to rely on fossil fuels. This way they can ensure Germany’s total destruction.
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