“Don’t work part time”

“Don’t work from home”

“Stop taking sick leave”

“If you only earn 20€/hr, why don’t you work for 30€/hr?”

…

“Why are we missing skilled workers???”

Calling the choice to get children in a country that officially guarantees access to childcare yet refuses to actually provide it a “life-style” is some intresting framing.

I wonder who is mainly responsible for that constant government failure…

Also: If you look at properly adjusted numbers productivity has massively increase (~+250% GDP per capita) in the last decades, while government spending, social spending, healthcare costs (equally adjusted) mostly stagnated or even went down.

So what’s the problem? Oh, yeah. Taxes and other contributions are tied to stagnating wages, while all that additional money is funneled to the top <1% (and barely taxed of course).

And so they lie: about the lazy workers not doing their part anymore, about imaginary hordes of lazy unemployed refusing to work, about masses of immigrants stealing our tax money, about the greedy pensioneers (adjusted those pensions are -no wonder as they are linked to wages- stagnating, too… but generational wars are just as well as a diversion as culture wars)…

What Merz actually want to say is: We worked very hard for decades to shift all the burden to the working class and constantly reduce taxes for rich people and corporations. But now that those taxes are basically non-existent and can’t be reduced anymore we need another source for “our” constant growth. So the stupid serfs should start to work harder, to pay for everything and make us more money, too.

PS: Oh, and Merz and his party took on a trillion (literally…) in new debt for “investments” into infrastructure and to support the economy. Who wants to take a guess where they spend that money instead?

i said it in another post, I’m saying it again:

Merz is personified rage bait.

No, we don’t.

The cry-baby-party started whining about all those (™️) people working part-time.

How dare the plebs not toil like they used do…we need regulation because clearly high cost of living is not making it hard enough.

“With a four-day week and an exaggerated work-life balance, prosperity cannot be maintained,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in early January

Merz’s buddies at BlackRock are not happy with the profits coming out of Germany, slaves aren’t working enough.

Government media (DW) publishes government culture war (Merz’ full employment wet dream), more non-news at 8.