All of Germany is run like that because we have the most idiotic politicians, who get elected because they promise to steal from the young and rich and spend on the old and poor, which sounds really "social", but just means you end up in a Turd World Country where they have to close down the freeways because the bridges are collapsing.
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European countries are shooting themselves in the foot. It is about incentives indeed. If the mayority of the population is old, they are going to vote for people that promises THEM a free lunch.
Parasites invade vulnerable hosts, wealthy European countries are just that. These (and other) parasitic ideas pray on empathy which is in abundance until the host collapses.
It does not mean that Germany is going down for sure, but it will undergo a radical transformation in the not so distant future (see Italy for a reference).
We are witnessing a fatal flaw in democracy. The demographics are so skewed that large segments of society can be completely ignored without consequences.
Then compensate for the dwindling birth rates and shrinking tax base with migration and you will soon find you have lost your nation.
I have been a migrant most of my life and though I love my people I hate our flaws as a culture (namely corruption and violence).
When a few of ME move to a different place, that place will get a little bit of my culture. If a considerable ammount of my people move in, we would recreate our homeland here. It doesn't matter if it is russians, africans, americans or asians, the point is the same.
Weirdly enough, the issue I am highlighting here is less catastrophic than just let the population dwindle and die on its own.
No solutions from me, sorry 😞
I am not even making a value judgement here on migrants or their culture.
Simply that migration is being used as a cover to hide the collapse and aging of populations. It also provides excellent cover for politicians to blame the failings of the system on. In Australia everyone loves to blame migration for house prices skyrocketing but no one has any idea about the fact that the money supply has also skyrocketed or that people are using their houses as a store of value. And as the population shifts so do the things that win their votes.
yeah, it's a dirty game they are running cover for the wrongdoings of the bankers and gigacorps
Oh sorry I was the one making the value judgement of migrant culture. And I agree with your point. There is something deeper that is not being addressed and it is causing all of these problems.
Symptomes are easy to point out, the root cause is very difficult to grasp. Faulty money and the incentives it creates have a cascading effect on our culture.
It's a cause-effect chain. The house price inflation lowers marriage rates and raises the economic burden on couples, which lowers birth rates, which incentivizes mass migration, to replace the missing children.
But economically crushing your local populace and then subsidizing foreigners to replace them, is next-level political perversion, IMO. And a lot of us migrants are now locals, and we're also getting crushed. So, you know, now they have to replace our missing offspring, too... It never ends.
I'm also a migrant. Most of us in the thread are, actually, in one way or another.
But, it's like you say, a handful of American's moving to your neighborhood makes for better burgers, cooler digital projects, a world-class basketball team, and livelier church music. A million Americans moving to your neighborhood is just an invasion and will turn you into America del Oste. (I mean, Germany is essentially occupied by Americans, so that's not mere conjecture.)
yeah, i'm a migrant too, been wandering around europe for a while, netherlands, serbia, bosnia, bulgaria (mostly)
i make a lot of effort to integrate, i can speak reasonable bulgarian now and i'm working on portuguese now for madeira... i've even started going to the local church, since a christian should go to church, fatima catholic it is
Italy just got its credit score upgraded because Meloni has been delivering.
italy was one of the worst, so improvements are likely to be shiny, also
italians are for sure fed up, probably more than any other southwest european country, the fascist mafia were running the place into the ground... a former manufacturing and food production powerhouse
they still make a lot of stuff, and it's pretty good, i have a carbon radiative heater by a company Ardes, it's a great little thing, the safety switch and rotating mechanism are kinda shit tho
Northern Italy is especially nice. Love being there. But quality of life is still a bit higher in Bavaria, other than the weather.
Of course, weather is a really big deal, but we can drive to Verona for temporary relief. 😂