@thenotmyjobpod: Germany’s economic model just… stopped working. Cheap Russian gas, gone. Open Chinese markets, gone (now they’re the competition). World-class car manufacturing, getting outcompeted. Add US tariffs and you get industrial production 15% below its all-time peak, 500,000 more people unemployed in four years, and ThyssenKrupp cutting 11,000 steel jobs. Berlin’s answer is a €500B fund… the biggest spending move in postwar history. Whether it actually lands in time is a different question. — Germany economy, German recession, deindustrialization, ThyssenKrupp layoffs, German unemployment, Chinese EV competition, German automakers, Russian gas, energy crisis Germany, US tariffs Germany, Bundeswehr spending, infrastructure fund Germany
Emily Gant
Region: DE
Thursday 16 July 2026 11:18:00 GMT
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mila :
One word ✨arrogance✨
2026-07-16 18:54:40
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Leo :
Germany falling under own weight.. German arrogance is one of the Biggest reason..still ask any german and majority still saying we are the best .. question is in what?
2026-07-16 13:21:18
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Moonlight :
Germany autos don’t have the quality they used to have
2026-07-16 14:20:46
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TrumpLovesEpstein😂🫵 :
There’s not a skilled labor shortage, there’s an unskilled labor shortage and skilled labor excess. Only nursing is facing a skill shortage. Other than that, it’s just underpaid warehouse and cleaning jobs that everyone is too skilled to apply for. Meanwhile high skilled jobs in science and engineering are shutting down or laying off workers while new graduates enter the dying job market, causing skilled workers to pile on top of each other as years of skilled labor enters a growing waiting line for employment that’s been back up for years and more to come
2026-08-09 10:42:48
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Mircea Alex :
It's 2026 and they still send mail like on paper. That's where Germany is. Somewhere in the 90's.
2026-08-08 21:56:29
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Manuelson :
it's because we had 2 times 16 years of right wing conservative governments from 1990-2020.
2026-07-16 11:38:49
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Tiedschai :
Germany’s culture is generally cautious about change. Combined with a complex bureaucratic system, this makes it difficult to pivot business models and implement the reforms the country needs at the pace they are required.
2026-07-29 10:44:00
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noirvelle :
Because it turned corrupt and brainwashed
2026-08-09 12:00:51
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Thura Soe-Htwe :
So basically arrogance and complacency that cheap Russian gas will always flow and everyone in the world wants to buy German cars even though there are no software updates.
2026-07-16 12:55:02
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xiping82 :
You know what will fix it? Higher taxes! And more fees
2026-08-10 10:29:05
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nerd.meyer :
A lot of people said arrogance here, and as I German, I can’t disagree. Furthermore I think it’s even worse. We were basically the rich kid, buying himself out of every problem and feeling like a business genius.
2026-07-17 07:32:29
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Siegfried_Siegbert :
If you believe our chancellor it is because we are to lazy to work
2026-07-16 23:47:13
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Alupigus :
Because what happen in 2015
2026-07-16 17:27:34
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Frannifrancy :
the funny stuff. if you exlude war spending e invest all of that money into actually rebuilding your economy with germany low debt it could have make it worth it. and yet they went the wrong way again
2026-07-16 16:23:46
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LaShey🎀 :
They prefer cheap, unskilled labour over the skilled, but more expensive labour.
2026-08-09 12:59:53
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Marcel :
Another issue: relatively low income for the normal workers(compare to countries with similar economic conditions). This made production and export very lucrative but means there is not as much capital in the domestic market. So know that the foreign markets are shrinking the whole system is collapsing.
2026-07-22 07:44:22
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🏝️Anthony🏝️ :
And too rigid to adapt to new market opportunities and utilizing industrial base to shift to emerging sectors
2026-08-09 11:32:34
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kalexa311 :
The fourth pillar: from outsourcing national defense to the US to now massive rearmament
2026-07-16 14:10:42
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Iggy :
Das sind Entscheidungen, die von deutschen Politikern selbst getroffen werden. Ideologische Diplomatie.
2026-07-17 06:29:08
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_Lonely_Vagabond_ :
All these are correct. Plus high taxes, complex regulations, poor governance…
2026-08-09 21:53:01
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maxlie3l :
Easy, because tje governments are getting richer
2026-07-26 19:29:57
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ph :
Die Energie Wende has killed Germany
2026-07-16 18:27:07
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Magi :
Where do you get this information at Germany was not paying full price for the Russian gas?🤔
2026-08-10 09:21:59
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nanollama :
This „cheap“ Russian gas thing was never true. It was never that cheap, and it was never that essential, as cost of energy is a minor factor in most products. The real issue is lack of innovation which means that products cannot be sold at high margins anymore. German companies used to spend a lot of money on R&D but stopped doing that decades ago and now they are feeling the true impact. And for the car industry: Post-COVID inflation means that their European customers have less money available and they are buying 20% less cars in response.
2026-08-10 05:18:15
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gaham john :
money is spent in war
2026-08-10 07:44:10
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