Disclaimer: I don't know shit, about anything.
> The Anglophone strategy led to greater internal inequality but seems to be better from an aggregate standpoint.
Let's see. I feel like whatever is brewing economically and socially may hurt the "service industry backed societies" harder, when the time has come.
> Germany still has an enviable roster of small, agile manufacturers, and the Bundesbank and others reject the notion that full-blown deindustrialization is anywhere close.
It's not all cars. It's a lot of things you haven't heard about, because they are highly specialized, niche industrial parts. I think, the German economy rests on the shoulders of Maschinenbau and, presumably, there is a whole lot less naked growth enabled "bullshit" products in that space.
Don't lie, don't you feel something is freaky with the economy? I don't just mean numbers and stock value... something more fundamental. Don't you feel overwhelmed by commerce, at times? Like, there is a lot of non-products produced. Almost violently pushed onto people, sickening amounts of "stuff" saturating all channels. How many mouths does marketing feed? There is so, so much marketing. Can this really be sustainable???
I don't know. I feel something is getting horribly out of balance and the service industry is a symptom. Rabid inequality is a symptom. Like core rot, it looks fine, until a little gust lays the tree onto your house.
> The Anglophone strategy led to greater internal inequality but seems to be better from an aggregate standpoint.
Let's see. I feel like whatever is brewing economically and socially may hurt the "service industry backed societies" harder, when the time has come.
> Germany still has an enviable roster of small, agile manufacturers, and the Bundesbank and others reject the notion that full-blown deindustrialization is anywhere close.
It's not all cars. It's a lot of things you haven't heard about, because they are highly specialized, niche industrial parts. I think, the German economy rests on the shoulders of Maschinenbau and, presumably, there is a whole lot less naked growth enabled "bullshit" products in that space.
Don't lie, don't you feel something is freaky with the economy? I don't just mean numbers and stock value... something more fundamental. Don't you feel overwhelmed by commerce, at times? Like, there is a lot of non-products produced. Almost violently pushed onto people, sickening amounts of "stuff" saturating all channels. How many mouths does marketing feed? There is so, so much marketing. Can this really be sustainable???
I don't know. I feel something is getting horribly out of balance and the service industry is a symptom. Rabid inequality is a symptom. Like core rot, it looks fine, until a little gust lays the tree onto your house.