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I guess he is talking about how greece has a upper class that don’t pay taxes and forces everyone else to work hard for basic needs.
I thought that’s just capitalism 101?!
More like lords and surfs. Its bluntly written in to their laws.
He is 1 dick
Short reminder that Merz had a 2-day work week during his time as chairman of the board at BlackRock Germany and got paid about half a million a year (150k base salary + bonuses) not to know or to decide anything but to facilitate political connections.
His famed “economy expertise” consists of lobbying work and board positions he only got to use his political influence (read: de facto corruption)
I would like to say, how the tables have turned. But I would wish for any country to have the fate of Greece after the GFC. Whatever the headlines and the numbers may say, Greeks havent recovered financially since 2008.
Working conditions are completely shit, the lowest collective bargaining, worst housing crisis in EU, 6 days weeks, 13 hours of work per day, pension at 67, highest tax burden in the EU, 2and to last in PPP and many more.
I can’t understand why would anyone take Greece as an example to adapt fir their workers
Easy: they’re looking at who those workers work for.
Those folks are having a grand old time.
Well all of this is pretty good for larger business owners. Merz is a rich pro-business guy. They take a part of every hour worked by workers in their firms, or firms they invest directly/indirectly in, more hours worked - more profit collected. So they’d directly benefit from Greece-like working conditions.
And while you’re at it, have more children.
While social spending gets cut even more. I mean sure the social state did nothing to harm the struggling economy but… look, it‘s just getting cut, ok?!
And stop going to the doctor when you’re sick. That’s not what the taxes are for.
Bad argument. German’s public health is not tax funded. Merz seems to be more like “Don’t take sick leave! When you feel sick, you’re just lazy.”
Beiträge zur gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung sind de facto Steuern. Ich muss sie zahlen und bemessen sich an meinen Einnahmen.
I think a regular work week should be reduced to 30 hours/week, people can work longer but everything above that is overtime and paid accordingly.
Productivity in any case craters after about 30 hours per week, but people like Merz don’t realize that since they haven’t actually worked in their lives.
Okay so this is how you bait communists takes notes
Politicians: “we need to make this problem worse”
Soon Merz is going to stand up there with a whip, in a full dom suit, shouting that the peons have to work or get lashes.
He won’t do the whipping himself. That would be hard work. Merz and his ilk don’t work. They have others work for their wealth and only pretend they’re doing it all by themselves.
During a visit by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Berlin last year, Merz praised labor market deregulation in Athens that allowed a six-day workweek. He said Germans who consider a 40-hour week unreasonable should “take a look at Greece,” adding that Germany could learn from the country in this area. He acknowledged, however, that German labor productivity remains much higher.
Same shit different day, so here’s what I said the last time this brainrot hit the news:
Someone does not understand what productivity means and how it’s meaningfully improved.
If you (you being the proverbial CDU brain here) need people to marginally increase their working hours, in order to achieve higher economic output, you’re in deep trouble. The increased output is also marginal and a one time boost. If you want meaningfully higher economic output, with sustained growth, you have to use machines and automation to achieve more with the same work hours. In other words you gotta do productive capital investment. Unfortunately conservative brains can only think of the cheapest solution (for businesses) first, at the expense of workers quality and quantity of life.
I already do way over 40 hours, I’m just not getting paid for all of it, so this changes nothing except my motivation to do overtime.
Maybe German government could stop buying from US and Chinese technology companies. Maybe block capital outflow from big German corporations to foreign countries with cheaper labor costs and start using domestic products ?
I’m stupid idiot so this might be all untrue.
While your at it – what about not destroying every single future technology that evolves in Germany and yield it to China? like maglev, solar panels, windmills, batteries, heat pumps, electric vehicles and so on and so forth?
Exactly that, giving capital and technology for free, call it “collaboration”. Wait 5 years and those foreign companies build on top of that and sell it to you and don’t share any capital or technology. It’s been like that for at least 2 decades so what they expect from country that was brain and capital drained for 20 years ?
My pay can‘t even keep up with inflation or rising prices and I‘m now expected to use AI for the tasks that I liked to do manually and instead waste my time fixing the garbage it puts out.
So yeah, thanks a lot „Christian Democrats“ and „Social Democrats“ for slashing the social state and putting our struggling economy to a halt even more all the while giving my employer even more leverage to squeeze labor out of me.
I‘m thinking I should take more paid health breaks before they cut that possibility too.
I’m confused, Musk is saying we’re heading to abundance and work being optional. Merz is saying we need to work more. I don’t know which overlord to listen to. They really need to compare notes at the next “rule the pawns” meeting…
They are both right. America gets the Technocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement#The_technate while Europe falls aside and has to rent out bodies and minds for global market rates. Thus Europe can only increase profits by increasing work rate.
They’re both talking or of their ass so it doesn’t really matter.
The real answer is taxing the rich properly, and relieving the poor.
• 4-day workweek should be the new standard
• Back to 70% taxes on the richest percentiles through income-dependent fines, wealth-dependent tax, tax of stocks, tax of private property (with a prohibition on raising costs for inhabitants), and so on.
• Combat capital flight and combat tax havens. Support them with a modest reimbursement for the losses of abolition of tax haven schemes.
• Relieve the proletariat: lower tax for the poor and middle class. 0% for the poorest, 20% for the richer.And other measures:
• Limit the power of large companies; break them up, foreign companies trying to do business here included.
• Foster small and mid-sized DUWOCs (decentral, unionised, worker-owned coöps).
• Tackle capital corruption within politics. Former non-DUWOC leaders cannot become politicians, and politicians once finishing their political career, cannot become non-DUWOC business leaders.
• Reduce tax for DUWOCs with small income differences between the worst- and best paid people.
• Foster juridicial independence
• Establish a European sovereign fund that invests in economic diversification, sustainable energy, support for farmers, and building homes. In good years, save up, and in bad years, spend a smaller part of it.They have different strategies, Musk is trying to motivating pawns by selling them a utopia, Merz is motivating the pawns by making them fear the lack of growth. Maybe they did compare notes and decided to do some a/b testing lol
These botches want 6 days of work like we ain’t got a life or something.
its so people cant be politically active, if you are all tired, for any progressive measure.
Halt die Fresse Merz
