Are German companies leaving the country?

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German companies are continuing to move abroad — and that applies to businesses of every size. According to press reports

According to the data, around 1,300 German companies with more than 50 employees relocated business functions abroad between 2021 and 2023. That’s equivalent to 2.2% of all companies of that size based in Germany in 2023.

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You’re right. I meant more the point of system collapse. When we get an uprising. I think it’s a bit of an unholy combination with what the Americans call Christians and the fascists.

By the way, Christianity also teaches us about the 7 good years which will be followed by 7 bad years. And vice versa. Way back then, the Israelites needed some words of encouragement. Maybe we need, too? But I’m super annoyed. Cutting investment into a brighter future and instead investing nearly every third € of taxpayer money into war is unlikely to fix society and infrastructure. We need to do better than that, because some time soon, I’d like to see some turning point and things start to improve again. For some time it looked like we were going to do something about energy and climate change. They promised to fix a few old laws about families and sexuality. Be less stingy and finally try to fix the run down parts of infrastructure. But then geopolitics happened, also Merz’s hyperfocus on appeasing the lunatics. And now improving Germany in any way got demoted to some backlog item. Yet, in reality it’s more important than ever.

But I’m more or less just annoyed because we’re not even that bad off. We had a lot of technological advancements and the energy situation seems fixable. I bet the industry would like some cheaper energy as well. Our society isn’t as broken as in other places. 84% of my neighbours don’t vote for any extremists. We even started to point out a few long-term issues. I think we’re still in a comfortable position to do something about it. We just need to do the right thing.

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Sorry, I’m still no friend of the system collapse narrative. Though I see the urgency.

And the biblical 7 good/bad years can also be interpreted in far less extreme ways.

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Hmmh. Yeah some people add it to the mix. I mean we’ve had revolution happen. It’s not like it is just a theory. I guess people just need to pay attention in history class. Learn what reform and revolution is… Consequences thereof… And it’s not like we’re close to anything like that. At least not here.

I think that bible tale mostly showcases how people already knew thousands of years ago, how life is a constant up and down. And you have to find ways to deal with it. It’s probably not exactly about that. As far as I remember they also had weather patterns back then and effects on agriculture. Plus it’s an old story about God’s supposed favorite tribe, their hardship and how they were able to prevail. It’s not the same thing as the doomerism baked into Christianity, due to early days and those teachings. Probabably also doesn’t matter unless we invite Peter Thiel over. CDU isn’t really Christian in any way. At least not on a federal level.

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Since you keep harping on the bible: Jesus was not a (political) revolutionary.

And although I don’t subscribe to it, I prefer to look at a saner interpretation of Christianity than the US American grifter FUD.

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