• 0 Posts
  • 2.01K Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 6th, 2024

help-circle









  • 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?



  • Das klappt aber nur, wenn den Absichtserklärungen jetzt auch konkrete Aufträge folgen, sagt Daniel Friedrich von der Gewerkschaft IG Metall Küste. “Und da muss man von der Bremse gehen, sondern Gas geben. Wir wollen Offshore, wir wollen die Netzanbindung, wir wollen das europäisch, und da ist die Industrieministerin jetzt gefordert.”

    Also wenn man den Deppen, die Deutschland immer wieder in die Regierung wählt, noch extra erklären müsste, wie sie die Sache sabotieren können, um dann in ein paar Jahrzehnten bedauernd zu verkünden, dass das alles nicht funktioniert hat und wir leider, leider, leider weiter Kohle und Gas verbrennen müssen. Die machen genau dasl schließlich professionell seit Jahrzehnten.



  • Because technology is already utilised to constantly increase productivity and growth. Then that growth/productivity flows directly into the pocket of the sub 1%, barely taxed at all. But that’s not something they would ever talk about.

    What they want to talk about instead is how workes with their stagnating wages, who also have to finance everything as wages is basically the only thing taxed properly, need to do more to keep the system they intentionally broke to enrich themselves alive.




  • “[…] “perverse” and “Stalinist” approach to social control, adding: “It is an encroachment on civil liberties, and it is a page out of the East Germany playbook. With the 15-minute city, you will have to, in effect, apply for an internal passport to go and visit your granny.”

    That’s nothing new. Fossil fuel funded desinformation and their not-less-desinformation-loving right-wing friends have a long history of telling the fairy tale of 15-min cities as a kind of population control.

    It’s all based on the basic premise that car-brains can’t understand that “you cannot go there freely by car” is not the same as “you cannot go there freely at all”. So when you tell them that you can only drive somewhere a limited number of times per year before paying a fee for using their car, their brain-damage automatically translates it to “I’m not allowed to go there anymore”.

    PS: Bringing the “East-German playbook” into this story makes it even more absurd, given the (non-)availability of cars and thus the quality of public transport in the ex-GDR. But that’s another thing car-brains can’t understand, so they will not see the problem.