Quo vadis – Germania?

In his youtube video, Rezo (Twitter account @rezomusik) describes and clearly shows how the CDU has failed – but basically, he says that all the parties that determined politics in the FRG during the last decades have failed and how the political elite is obviously incompetent.

The person who calls himself Rezo is an entrepreneur and 27 years old – which is no longer all that young. He has a master’s degree in computer science (from the University of Dortmund) and earns his money with the production of videos. Well, youtube is one of the channels to publish videos. Which makes him a youtuber.

I, too, am offering 103 videos on my channel rolandduerre and I believe that there are some quite interesting videos among them. Just think of the videos with Rupert Lay. But that does not make me a youtuber, just as I am not Roland Dürre the blogger just because I write down some of my ideas in the IF blog. No. First and foremost, I am a human being who used to earn his living as an entrepreneur and who now enjoys the good life as a man of independent means.

So now, the CDU got upset about the famous Rezo video and they are asking if the internet should be controlled even stricter than it already is controlled. Mind you, what Rezo says is more than true. The only problem is that he does not say all. But then: how could anybody say all when you look at how endless the list of failure is?

There is not a single day when I am not confronted by the effects of what CDU & Co have done. And I am truly surprised (and find it a pity) to see how many people still voted in favour of CDU in the European elections.

The latest example is of earlier today. At 7 a.m., I listened to the News on the Second Bavarian Radio Station. And they say that currently the countries where most of the young high-potentials want to work are Australia, Sweden and Switzerland. Our SCHLAND ranks on number 12.

Here is the originalnews text:

Berlin: For highly qualified experts from abroad, Germany is not the first address (it ranges in the two-digit area). This can be seen from an OECD study that will be presented today (May, 29th) in Berlin. The authors find out that Germany is on the 12th position on a list of the most attractive places to work for experts with a master or PhD degree. The top rank is held by Australia, followed by Sweden and Switzerland. Criteria were, among others, the quality of job advancement chances, along with income and taxes.

I know other studies that show that Germany also becomes less and less attractive for craftsmen and qualified workers. As I see it, craftsmen and qualified workers are just as important as people with an academic degree, perhaps they are even more important.

Well, this is what I call a failure of the German politics. And it is a failure with dire consequences. After all, it seems a valid conclusion that the best people no longer want to come to Germany and consequently Germany will not have a very bright future.

It comes as a particular surprise to see what countries are at the top of the list.

Australia?


When I think of Australia, I think it is down under. The only thing you will find close by is New Zealand and a few South-Sea Islands. Other than that, persons who live there are totally cut off from the world. In my book that is not attractive. Whenever you want to see something new, you have to fly more than ten hours. Which is absolutely a no-go in these modern times.

Economically speaking, Australia lives almost exclusively from coal exports. Their coal is probably the highest quality coal world-wide. If this source of income were to disappear, the country would be bankrupt.

Just imagine: the world’s best coal is mined without any environmental consideration and than driven to the harbours, from where it is transported around the globe with huge ships. Then, it is re-loaded to smaller ships or long freight trains. The only purpose of this procedure is to have enough coal for burning it and producing enough electricity for the production of tin boxes. Said tin boxes will then be filled with local beer and shipped back to Australia. What nonsense …

Currently, what is needed is that we immediately stop electricity production based on coal. Naturally, they cannot do this in Australia. Because if Australia terminated the export of coal, it would immediately suffer from the worst possible economic crisis. …

So I understand that they need the best people. Just in case…

Sweden?

Many good things are said about Sweden. Some people really make a huge effort, for example with the project Vison Zero. It is about the desire to limit the number of people killed in fatal traffic accidents to ZERO.

However, I know a number of authors who describe Sweden as a corrupt country that is close to collapse. That is certainly not good advertising for the Scandinavian model country.

For me, Sweden would not even be attractive if wild horses dragged me there . Not just because of the depressing criminal stories, but more because of all those long and dark winters. What a placement disadvantage.

Switzerland?


I know Switzerland quite well, also its bourgeois side. Regardless of the fact that I do not always like this side, I still find that Switzerland is attractive. That is also because of their democratic structure.

The main disadvantage of Switzerland is that it seems to be even more expensive than my hometown Munich. I can understand that people like living and working there. Because if you work there, you can better afford to live there. It is not so easy for a gentleman of independent means. So: if I were young again, I would probably think about emigrating.

Common characteristics

Now let us look at what these three countries have in common. As I see it, they are all autonomous and, perhaps most importantly, they are small economies. And you all know that it has always been my belief that small systems are easier to control than big ones. Maybe there is some truth in this?

As far as the gross national product is concerned, they are probably all in the range of Bavaria. Perhaps this is another reason why Bavaria should at long last leave the FRG. All three countries have a strong culture of their own and an identity. For Australia, this is because they are so remote, in Sweden, it is because they are still an EU partner who keeps its distance and Switzerland has its neutrality. And all of them have their own currency. It sees that this is not so bad, after all.

One might actually come to the conclusion that it is easier for small and self-determined countries to create quality of life. To me, this, too, sounds plausible.

The negative trend that is being supported in many dimensions in Germany has not come out of the blue. It is, of course, due to political failure. Neither self-praise nor political manoeuvres in the form of offending those who criticize you will make it any better. It is about time that the ladies and gentlemen of the CDU start to accept this.

Here is an anecdote:

At one time, the InterFace AG and one of its partners had an IT daughter in India. Which meant that I occasionally flew to India. Whenever entering India, I was usually greeted by nice young gentlemen at the immigration desks of the airports in Mumbai or New-Dehli. These gentlemen were always willing to talk to me. They also asked me about my job. When I answered that my field was computer science or IT, they were quite surprised. They asked things like:

Do you really have such a thing as a computer in Germany?

Later, that was exactly our problem. The best Indians wanted to go to the USA or Canada. Or perhaps they wanted to work in those countries that were then called Asian Tigers. If you had to go to Europe, then the only halfway decent choice for an Indian was going to Britain. Germany was a very poor excuse for a destination. Only the second class experts who were not taken by anyone elsewhere went to Germany. They usually hoped to use Germany as a stepping stone towards another country.

These experiences lie a few years back. Today, the situation is even worse. Except that in the Ministry of Economy in Bavaria, they tell a totally different story. They talk AI and postulate Bavaria First. Basically, this is just ridiculous. But it is so sad.

Today, China is the leader. And Mr Trump, with his stupid activities – like now around Huawei – sees to it that the Chinese will now (because they have no other choice) get really under way. Consequently, life will become really hard for the rest of the world, at least as far as digitalization is concerned. Even for the USA. And especially for the European Nations who hinder each other with minor problems in their over-regulated EU…

After all, everything is about digitalization – at least according to Bavarian politics.

That is what I call political failure.

RMD
(Translated by EG)