Germany consciously decided to sabotage any of their own industries with potential: solar, EV, batteries. Just in solar alone, 50.000 jobs were lost in a short timeframe, and at a time we’re it felt like they could have been a technology leader. All to appease the fossil fuel industries.
My big thing is that their lead times on things were horrendous before AI started fucking with everything. Like, year long lead times on things that China will make and ship to you in 3 months.
That hasn’t been true for like… Idk, nearly 20 years?
Germany makes some nice stuff, but they’ll never get it to you on time.
China overtook Germany in machinery exports in 2020 by trade volume.
Oh, more recent than I thought!
it was probably a 20 year old episode of top gear i heard the line on, so the math checks out
Germany consciously decided to sabotage any of their own industries with potential: solar, EV, batteries. Just in solar alone, 50.000 jobs were lost in a short timeframe, and at a time we’re it felt like they could have been a technology leader. All to appease the fossil fuel industries.
The German industry keeps lobbying for the destruction of the future of German industry.
My big thing is that their lead times on things were horrendous before AI started fucking with everything. Like, year long lead times on things that China will make and ship to you in 3 months.