Wage disparities getting bigger in Germany

Deutsche Welle ^ | 18.03.2015 | [hg/ng (dpa, epd, Reuters)]

[Olog-hai]

Real German incomes, or gross wages adjusted for inflation, had not developed evenly in recent years across different wage sectors, a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Munich-based IFO economic research institute showed Wednesday. […]

The authors of the study said one of the reasons for the increasing wage disparity had been a creeping decline of collective bargaining deals with binding wages. […]

“We need to redouble our efforts to scale back wage disparities again without losing too many jobs,” Bertelsmann Foundation chief Aart De Geus said in a statement, pointing out that the recent introduction of a minimum wage was not enough to rectify the current situation. …

[Gaffer]

When the scientist and the garbage man are paid the same salary, what then is there a reason to learn, grow and advance the collective state of mankind?

Communism’s goal is to take care of your basic needs and to pretend to pay you all (save those special few) the same thing, and you pretend to work. Nothing ever gets done and the “5 year” plan has to keep being “Reset” every 5 years.

[grania]

Wages shouldn't be equal for all levels of contribution to the workforce, of course not. But there has to be a middle class that people can become part of through hard work and an area of expertise.

Hitler was able to gain power because the bankers and other elites had gained money and power, and after WW1 there wasn't much promise for the little folk to get ahead. Besides that Dejavu thing going on, Germany is now developing a very large immigrant third world population that isn't real loyal to Germany.

[Gaffer]

Understood, but I think the example of Hitler rising through the money power of bankers and elites was not so much as it was because of the interminable, crippling reparations debts it incurred as a result of WWI.

He may have added all those people when he consolidated his power, and created others along. But his rise was due to widespread misery and dissatisfaction coupled with a ruthless determination to remove those in his way.

I agree about the gastarbeiters in Germany. I saw their rise when I lived there in the early 70s. Muslims are loyal to only Islam.