KasimirDD@feddit.org to Deutschland@feddit.orgEnglish · edit-21 day agoOpinion | Germany Needs Something New. Instead It’s Getting This Guy.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: europe@feddit.orgnytimes@rss.ponder.cat
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minus-squarecopaceticlinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up4·1 day agoBecause our own consumers don’t matter. Germany is export champion. What matters is that other countries buy our stuff. I think that is a stupid argument but I suspect it is how people like Merz think.
minus-squaretrollercoaster@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoReducing people to the status of mere consumers is a part of the problem, and this pervasive throughout society.
Because our own consumers don’t matter. Germany is export champion. What matters is that other countries buy our stuff.
I think that is a stupid argument but I suspect it is how people like Merz think.
Reducing people to the status of mere consumers is a part of the problem, and this pervasive throughout society.