The lack of investment in strategic infrastructure, the lack of public expenses, and the mostly monolithic neoliberal economic politics bring them to this situation.
At one point, you need to invest public money in the infrastructure that work for the day-to-day life of everyone. In this case, we speak about the railway network. Europe can’t be car centric like the US. The geography and the urbanism of European towns and cities don’t allow this perspective.
This has implication on the job market as poorer can’t afford a job. The neoliberal politics targeting the social welfare make people poorer and this had influences on the consumption and the economy. It’s of course more complicated than this. But, it gives an idea of the situation.
Rail is one thing but there are also others like bike and pedestrian infrastructure, education, internet, digital streamlined government processes. Also maintenance of infrastructure in general.
Rail and other transport decisions do highlight how a lot of the economic policies do not reflect what makes sense but what the existing industry wants to survive for a few more years without adapting.
Obviously the east of Germany is never going to prosper, there is no incentive for companies to go and open their doors in east Germany as they can then just move east a few more kilometer and get workers for 1/3 of the cost.
TSMC, CATL, Tesla, Intel or Avnet would disagree.
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Do they though? They are building modern factories with high automations and are getting massive incentives to do so.
Additionally they need a lot of jobs, the region is poor, so we can only hope that attracting a few high profile players can create an effect that causes others to gravitate there.
As this will most likely also alleviate the AfD problem.
And then they are surprised that people don’t trust the government anymore and the fascists gain so much popular support. If you are too much stuck in your ideological corridor where austerity is the holy grail of politics and spending money is evil, and on top of that you are constantly fighting with your coalition partners and get nothing done that way, instead of helping your country out of this economic crisis, this is what you get
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All imperialist media shouldn’t be read
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At the end of the day all mass media is owned by one super rich person or another. Or a group of them.
And maybe we should call that out while they still let us
