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Written by crepererum on 2024-11-29 at 14:43

The discussion about the German labor force is rather comical: on one hand we don't have enough people to get anything done or to ensure service availability like medical care. On the other hand there's an outcry whenever a company closes a branch and people loose their jobs. I think what's actually going on is the reluctance to change. This includes retraining people, buildingelectric vehicles, transforming the energy sector, acknowledging that "German know-how" expired,...

[#]Germany

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Written by Daniel on 2024-11-29 at 15:09

@crepererum I believe it comes with our inverted demographic pyramid.

Interesting thought: historically, societies have not been able to reverse such demographic trends once established.

All we can hope for in the coming decades is to slow this trend down by

1. increasing birth rates,

2. encouraging immigration, and

3. extending working life to have older adults stay in the workforce for longer.

At the moment we see that we're spectacularly failing all all three of these measures.

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