Oh the good old censorship wishes of the far left. Fortunately the world doesn't revolve around you. The EU has bigger battles to fight yet it chose to waste taxpayers money debating this nonsense.
In the western world, raising children is very expensive so people just give up. Instead of solving the cost of raising children to avoid retirement issues, western governments instead import labour. Very odd, given the massive drop in population in those countries.
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The wrong bit here is that Google is acting as a dangerous monopoly, disregarding privacy and as of recently, shamelessly stealing markets from its own customers. Few years ago in Europe it was sanctioned for stealing news from news agencies, and the echo chamber around hn criticised news agencies and governments trying to prevent this madness.
Hackernews is one enormous echo chamber where people will naturally find reasons to prove their conformance to the norm. Your statement however matched what other people from germany told me. Also there is an almost regular post on HN about how self driving cars wont happen, usually coming from german carmakers. Those sound eerily identical to articles i used to read where they explained why electric cars wont ever happen, and so on. Making great drilling machines, construction machinery and maybe electronics is not innovation. The echo chamber doesnt understand such topics because its too busy trusting politica driven “innovation stats”. Perhaps they are the kind whom buy a new car because it has fancier leds as opposed to actual new tech.
People cant afford buying cars made outside europe because they are heavily taxed. So instead the whole continent is polluted to prop up the german economy. When the rest of the continent needs propping, germany starts name calling and forcing there governments to tax people and businesses to death. Not to mention over regulation in the name of “safety” or “insert populist mantra” that are usually met by german companies and are a burden to most other economies. Germans wont buy Lithuanian products because those are “low quality” but they buy chinese. So instead of allowing the eu to deregulate, to relax “standards”, and to enable innovation, germany does the opposite so you, in lithuania, cant compete and always lag - therefore only live on a 1500 eur budget. Fortunately end of game for the eu is in sight and if your country stays democratic it will grow to afford more.
German products arent as high quality ad they used to be and most if them are pretty stale in terms of innovation. Sure they change the shape of cars and add new leds and interior eye candy but that is not progress. Imo german cars are low quality and lack diversity, and same goes for most machinery made in that country. US, Japanese, South Korean or other EU made products can be of similar or higher quality. Germany has such an economic power because the EU is heavily biased towards its needs. Just have a walk around east Europe and you will see how it has become junkyard for german cars. Suddenly the environment doesnt matter. Furthermore Germany is pretty socialist, both corporate and personal and has plenty of ways to subsidise industries and prevent too much innovation from rocking the boat.