durnygbur

as in "demeaning work"

If by careers you mean simply making a living... there are very few truly success stories. If your friends were successful in the privatization during the 90s, or in public sector, or fossil fuel related... that's why the rest of the society had to "whore" themselves abroad. Let me guess what they do at most - outsourcing for German of American corporations, maybe some software for gambling?

Somehow from the tone of both of you I feel you both assume that a woman around 20 can be only a victim and never a pimp or a recruiter.

a whore, a pimp, a victim, sex worker, primadonna ... I believe an adequate investigation is ongoing and we will know who's who, right?

Some of them were recruiters so not victims at all. The recruitment was done by deception and lying. 18-19 years old is an adult and still a teenager. The urge to show up back home was massive, many women were ready to take life shortcuts, ready for many sacrifices. Arrangements like this are not 1-3 masterminds and then remaining being exclusively victims, cash in solid currency fills the holes in conscience very well.

Except when you rent and the landlord says "Internet is internet, why do you need different one?" then a next desperate tenant will rent whatever there is.

Germans coming both with the disease and a pinch of a cure. What's the role of German publishers and media companies in lobbying for the new rules? Had their activists been so special, they'd keep their copyright lobbyists chained and gagged somewhere domestically.

I presume countries like Finland and Denmark somehow oppose these rules, while countries like Bulgaria and Poland don't know what they are doing and slacked on the topics in this particular domain.

Copyright reforms pushed by American and German copyright bullies, lobbyists, predators, and stalkers. The days of your entertainment and content will come to an end. Unfortunately the bullies will likely remain unpunished.

So yeah it's the duopoly from my previous comment. When you buy a bloody apple in your nearby shop and pay with it, Americans are salivating.