Germany will likely sleep through the next industrial revolution, and lose, as a result.

German manufacturing is rooted in 19th-century technology. Over decades, industrial companies (including scores of smaller, lesser-known names) have perfected the manufacturing process. German companies generally consider their work to be done once a product leaves the factory. But in the world of Industry 4.0, also called the industrial internet, that’s just the beginning. A matrix of internet-enabled sensors will soon link factories with customers and suppliers to optimize production and service. If German manufacturers don’t embrace the digital shift, they might be quickly overtaken by US and Asian competitors.

2022-11-30: Germany is also culturally completely hopeless, like requiring highly qualified jobs to be in German, which approximately no one speaks.

118m Menschen sprechen Deutsch als Mutter- oder Zweitsprache. 2012 ging man davon aus, dass insgesamt 185m Menschen die deutsche Sprache beherrschen. Davon leben 100m Menschen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Die restlichen 85m machen 1% der Weltbevölkerung aus. Sie sagen also: „Ich will 99 qualifizierte Kandidaten ablehnen, um den einen einzustellen, der zufällig auch noch Deutsch kann.“ Haben Sie denn 100 Bewerber für diese Position? Dann nur zu.