In Germany we say "Arbeitnehmerrechte" and I think that's beautiful

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The funny thing is that the Arbeitnehmerrechte will costs us den Wohlstand and the reason why we’re getting abgehängt in sectors like the automotive industry.
- Hahaha suuure. I mean that's what the großaktionärs and their pathetic lobbyists tell you, so it has to be true, right? I mean, why would they possibly lie to you about something that makes them richer and all workers poorer?! The actual reasons why german wirtschaft suffers are not related in the slightest to Arbeitnehmerrechte. There are many reasons, here are just some of them:
  HUGE lack of staatliche Investitionen (that's the main difference to the wirtschaftlich successfull states in the world). This is something that piled up during the last decades actually, because the former regierungs were even worse in this regard that the current one, basically destroying whole industries that could have had a bright economic future in this country. Instead, the current FDP dullis that run our Regierung mostly gift 39Mrd. to Unternehmen (by lowering their Steuers) which mainly benefit said Großaktionärs (who don't spend the money so it's not in the Wirtschaftskreislauf at all) and only lead to approx 11 Mrd. of private investments by those Unternehmen. So it would have been much more productive to invest that money directly as Regierung.
  Dumb as fuck decisions by EZB to raise Zinsen through the roof (because they don't understand the difference between a temporary Energiepreis-Schock and Inflation), making private and public investments more expensive and thus hindering them.
  Low wages leading to low Kaufkraft in Mittelschicht, leading to very little Konsum, which in turn becomes a problem for local Wirtschaft.
  (Not a small point): External factors like china not buying as many cars from our zurückgebliebene Autoindustrie anymore (that completely fucked up by trying to milk their last century dampfmaschinen technology for ever, missing the anschluss)
- Who's Wohlstand? I've worked 40, 60, 80 and even 100-Hour weeks and at the time I've always had to live paycheck-to-paycheck because my Bosses would pay close to minimum wage (less than if gerechnet auf die Stundenzahl), invent breaks I didn't take to balance out any overtime I had or just not pay overtime in the first place (but still demand it).
  Explain how my Wohlstand was diminished by having too many rights
  
  You were richer than 80% of the earths population. What else do you want? Most countries don’t even have minimum wage.
  
  Maybe. I still don't see how not having rights as a worker (or in this case my rights not being respected) helped to develop my personal wealth.
  If your claim, that workers rights diminish wealth, is true, I should have become more wealthy instead of less. Right?
  
  Just because somebody has it worse doesn't mean that it's okay. If you stub your toe, should you not be able to complain because I broke a bone in my forearm when I was 6 and the doctor had to snap the other one with no sedation/painkillers so it would heal correctly?
  Plus, cost of living is a thing. They may have been richer than 80% of the population, but I bet their cost of living was higher than most of them as well. Minimum wage in my state is $15 USD, twice the federal minimum, and somewhere around 80% of the workforce in the state capital has at least a bachelor's degree (the highest percentage of workforce by city in the country). Despite this, the vast majority commute from outside the city every day for work, because the cost of living inside the city is so high most people can't afford to rent an apartment. I made more money in 2022 than the bottom 51% of Americans, and I can't afford to move there.
- Yeah actually it's the opposite

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