Germans need to work longer and harder, Economy Minister Katherina Reiche has told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung national daily in remarks published on Saturday.
“Demographic change and increasing life expectancy make this unavoidable. Lifetime working must rise,” she said.
Can we maybe just start being more efficient by adopting digital technologies? That would already help our economy a lot. Next let’s improve our infrastructure and public transport.
Germany really is quite an inefficient country but not because we’re not working enough.
When I moved I had to pay the deposit and the first rent in cash and the contract was filled out using a type writer and the building administrator complained she could not print my emails because they were encrypted somehow. That’s the German experience in a nutshell.
Start with taxing wealth. That should give us the funds needed to do everything that’s needed.
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