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Merz’s coalition must persuade younger generations to surrender more of their free time to support Europe’s largest economy
The coalition between Merz’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats have, in their treaty which defines the political agenda until the next election, committed to incentives to persuade Germans to increase their working hours, and to delay retirement.
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Social Democrats
Germany has a social democratic party, called the Greens, but they did not sign the coalition agreement. The author means the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which is a conservative-liberal joke. Kinda like Labour in the UK.
(Yes I’m being facetious but am I wrong?)
The future can and should be about getting better! That means more efficient, that means more money for more people for less work, that means less hours spent working.
Merz and conservatives want a worse future for you and your family and your kids. They want to enrich themselves and their friends while asking you to work yourself to death. Don’t vote against your self-interests, don’t vote in the AfD or those that inevitably bring them to power like the CDU.
Vote for progress, vote progressives.
Fotzenfritz is speedrunning an AfD majority
This guy earned > 1 million euros per year before he became chancellor and told a journalist he believes he’s middle class. Nuff said.
By now I think he did mean it so as to say that his person as a “brand” or “company” is “Gehobener Mittelstand”, upper mid tier, which is arguably worse and even more out of touch.
Yeah I don’t exactly agree with him.
German Version: Halt die Fresse, Fotzenfritz. Ich werd jetzt doppelt so viel Arbeitszeitbetrug machen wie vorher. MfG.
Amen!
Easy to say for someone who got his first job like a week ago.
and after negotiating the contract needed four vacation days. Then he failed to win the first vote on getting the job due to it and had to wait for a bit.
Nation of slackers
It’s interesting that an article about productivity of labour doesn’t mention productivity. Her Merz should perhaps persuade the owner class and himself to invest in labour productivity increases such as training, equipment, digitalization and automation. Working more hours is a marginal improvement if it even produces higher output at all.
Merz is very firmly stuck in the past, so you can’t expect him to understand any of this new-fangled mumbo-jumbo.
They don’t need to invest into productivity, which btw is already through the roof.
They can just happily ignore facts because nothing (but the profits of the top 0,x %) is linked to actual productivity anymore. Instead it’s linked to wages that can be kept low.
(PS: And all actual context aside, modern day Germans are actually working more than ever, too. So it’s not even malicious misinterpreting of reality but just plain lying.)
I’d wager extending work hours decreases productivity. There are lots of reasons why this will happen, let alone the demotivating loss of leisure time.
I think he should wear a 24/7 livestreaming body cam and then work in a minimal wage job for the enterteinment of the voters
Sehr authentisch, Herr Merz! Sie sind ein wahrer Arbeiter!
According to a study regarding office work, on average people are productive for just about 3 hours anyway. This is similar to some other findings (like this one), where about 4 hours of productive work per day were found.
Soo based on this increasing the amount of work hours doesn’t really do anything despite making people even more angry and despise the government.
I’ve worked in an office and as a waiter. I was regularly working for less than a quarter of the day in the office job (and I ended up getting the fastest promotion in the history of the department), whereas I would be scolded if I looked at my phone for less than a minute in the back of the restaurant, even if I didn’t have any tables.
The first time I told my boss in the office that I was going to the bathroom he asked if I needed help finding it, then got really uncomfortable when he realized that I was essentially asking permission.
My personal experience is about 4 hours. Then I’m just wasting time, getting distracted by my own thoughts. If I can switch to manual/dumb labor after 4 hours of cerebral tasks, I should.
people are productive for just about 3 hours anyway.
That is not at all my experience.
Of course 100% is impossible , but 3 hours is less than 50%!
Of course there are jobs where the workload varies, and you sometimes don’t have a lot to do.
But most jobs I’ve been in, I’d say it’s closer to twice that.No offense intnded. But your anecdote is not evidence. Many studies have been done over this for many, many years.
Perhaps you are an outlier and are more productive than the average.
Or perhaps you are misinterpreting your productivity.
I never claimed it is evidence, but in fact that research isn’t either. It’s basically just an opinion poll. With very poor systematics behind it. And the claim is next to baseless.
You know what now I’m gonna slack off even harder
Yes, become as miserable as we are in America
🖕
I’m done soon with my studies and then he can go on alone with his stupid boomer projections
This is such a sad ‘isolanistic’ approach. There are other countries in Europe with a less tight labor market. Production could be moved there. Everybody would be happy.
But production is supposed to be automated. The number of newly installed robots compared to China doesn’t make Europe look good.
The plan can only be to push through the next couple of years until OpenAI, Google and Boston Dynamics have developed the robots to take over production.
But production is supposed to be automated.
Automawhat? This is about a retarded conservative whose ideas where already obsolete 40 years ago and have not changed since then.
a retarded conservative
Could you remove the ableist slur, please? /f
Well the rest of the world isn’t standing still.
