Germany is quietly falling apart

3 points | by mrzool an hour ago

4 comments

  • mertbio 11 minutes ago

    Everyday more and more articles like this appearing on HN. For some reason Germany is still exporting around €130 billions of products every month. Unlike the US, it doesn’t include natural gas or oil.

    Also in this article, they talk about how VW can’t compete with the Chinese cars companies. Can the US car companies compete? Why the US doesn’t even allow those cars to be sold? The same thing happened with Huawei. They simply ban the companies they can’t compete but everybody talks about Germany :)

  • sscaryterry 35 minutes ago
  • vlian2088 17 minutes ago

    >It is the same reflex every time: more regulation, more state, less market, less competition. It is an approach that has served Germany rather well for explaining decline, and rather poorly for reversing it.

    that's EU's approach as a whole, not just Germany's.

      myst 10 minutes ago

      That’s everyone’s approach in fact. As soon as “reaping rewards” becomes “resting on laurels”, one loses the ability to do anything but protectionism.