> Germany's middle-class relatively speaking to many other countries is still fairly intact which is reflected in the low priority that class issues or employme

> Germany's middle-class relatively speaking to many other countries is still fairly intact which is reflected in the low priority that class issues or employment has in German politics. Employment is pretty much one of the main topics of German politics. High employment needs to be presented even if those employed can't even live from that income. While the low-income issue has been ignored with "Be glad you got at least some work!". As German culture is very quick and harsh to shame people for not working a job. Which has been one of the factors the AfD played on: Many low and mid-income Germans feel like they've been missing out, the German right has pitted that feeling against the arriving refugees in a "We don't have money for German pensioners [0], but we do for Syrian economic migrants?!" way. As such I never declared the German model as dead, I was merely pointing out that it ain't as perfect as many people from the outside often perceive it to be. There's a whole lot of shining up the numbers going on, not just in terms of "who counts as unemployed", but even with "who counts as poor/low income". [1] [0] https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2019-02/altersarmut-rente-armutsgefaehrung-statistik-pensinaere https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2019-02/altersarmut-rente-arm... [1] https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/der-geschoente-armutsbericht-der-bundesregierung-wer-arm.1005.de.html?dram:article_id=383639 https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/der-geschoente-armutsbe...