Don’t think labor costs is a big factor. Car production is the sector that is most automated. Just think of this endless bands of hanging cars with robot arms working on it. Tesla even topped this.

It’s mainly the unwillingness to design and sell cheap cars due to less profits. In Germany we had electric cars for 20k€ or even combustion cars under 15k€. But they stopped building it. Although it was sold out in weeks.

In my region there was a Startup by the Aachen University RWTH (which is an elite university in Germany) bulding small EVs for around 20k€. They simply bought all parts from suppliers and just assembled it. And engineered and designed it first. Unionized and still competitive. Unfortunately, they didn’t fly.

EV building is rather simple. The software is key. And this is the missing part at car makers capabilities.

I second your thoughts on trade war. However, I guess it will be much simpler with high taxes, high quality regulations, and may be less support by car workshops. We will see…

There‘s a word for that „Greedflation.“ This is what western car makers do. Luckily, the Cinese car makers grasp their chance and disrupt the market

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Okay understood. You might have read that I excluded those with an agenda.

I guess it doesn’t fit in a yes/no thinking if there‘s a third option.

People need to point on who’s good and who’s the bad, don’t they? Makes life easier.

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There‘s nothing more annoying than a group of „individuals“ on a night tour. Each move, either in this or that club, to the right or to the left, stay or lesve this place, as to be discussed in deep detail and from every micro perspective. Until a shared view emerges.

It’s simply a better way to be a group of people to have a leader who hs a say. Good leaders care about the group members and might even have more experience than the groups individuals. I‘m quite happy to have a guide in a museum who can tell stories about the images. I‘m happy to have a leader to follow in the mountains. And I‘m happy to have someone leading a group through new fields of anything, so I learn from an experienced and might do my own steps in this s field alone.

True. Accounting is the best friend of digitization.

However, it’s not always bad to look what makes sense or drive profit and what not. It’s rather a matter of how religious one is about it.

Take the second wave of computerism for example. What we call Digitalization. This is mainly driven by opportunities and chances of new business not so much about squeezing out the last percent of profit. This all is accounted as well, but management doesn’t care.

Yes and No. It’s a stupid privatization they did.

They privatized the railroad, but never sold some stocks. Now, it’s a private company owned by the state and subsidized by tax payers.

Oh, it‘s no better over the ocean. A German colleague of mine just settled in the US and civil servants attitude and bureaucracy is the same shit. Bureaucracy seems to be an international culture.

Interesting point of view - your accounting thing.

However, that doesn’t really fit to Deutsche Bahn, I think. Your point is rather about a Monopoly but an accounting exercise.

Indeed there are worse countries. I think of Cuba for example, where it’s more about „the train arrives this day.“

However, in German culture the notion of timeliness and efficiency is very strong. Our expectations to our railroad is high as it was quite on time the last decades. And it perfectly fits into our recent feeling of become mediocre as a country. There‘re so many challenges that where Germany falls behind other countries and isn’t in the top 10 anymore.

Part of the real causes of this trouble is that the railroad was privatized 30 years ago. Together with Deutsche Post (now DHL) and Deutsche Telekom. All those three went international. Two with success. Deutsche Bahn expanded into road freight quite heavily as there was opportunity to grow and money to make. They took the money granted for the rails and invested it into trucks. The German government is now in discussions to unbundle the company and split it into small „tasks“ so they focus on their main business. The Bahn deserved to be cut down into pieces. Not well managed.

Nice. Just received my parcels today for this fun. Can’t wait for tomorrow and toy around.

Oha, Feddiverse becomes important. Good sign

It’s a bit my car is bigger than yours.

Or better: my next car is going to be bigger than yours.

Chatgtp summarized it in 6 sentences :

• The author argues that the discussion around immigration in Germany is not actually about fixing issues with refugees, but rather a cover for xenophobia.
• They claim that politicians and media outlets conflate asylum seekers and refugees with illegal immigrants to fuel their narratives.
• The author acknowledges that there are actual issues with integration and temporary permissions to stay, but argues that these issues are not being addressed in the current discussion. - They believe that the discussion should focus on better integration for some and quicker deportation for others, without violating human rights. - The author concludes that until the discussion shifts to these sensible measures, they will not acknowledge it as a discussion about “problems with refugees”

Sorry it was just too much to read

Nope, only struggling against being >drowned in that same right narrative >pushed here…

Don’t think so. If majors of every small and big city say in media, that they can’t cope it, then this seems a fact. Not right wing propaganda.

They already started to build beds in sport halls as we‘d seen in Syria war. Despite that it isn’t a war responsible for the situation now. This people aren’t Ukraineans.

Indeed, they are. Riding bike way too often. Currently my car is painted with spider webs, leaves, and moss

I‘m German. I even wait at the red traffic light if no car is on the street.

(German) man dies waiting for green light.