> and the article discusses the usual extreme income inequality The article paints only a partial picture. See for example the Gini data from 2021 https://en

> and the article discusses the usual extreme income inequality The article paints only a partial picture. See for example the Gini data from 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_wealth_inequality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_we... There are other factors for inequality. One is that "East Germany" has 1/3 the median wealth compared to "West Germany". We have a million refugees from the Ukraine here. That makes the housing situation difficult, because available space is scarce and expensive. Energy was very expensive last year, due to the Russian energy war against Europe (and especially Germany). Financing an apartment or a house got very expensive due to higher interest rates for credits and rising construction costs. People lost jobs during the covid pandemic. Still there is little unemployment. > Are people thriving or are they just going through the motions of living? Sounds like to me that most people are just surviving, and suffering the whole time, while the richies live on the backs of everyone else. "most people are just surviving" ? Have you ever been to Germany? > Again, the article talks about "farmers protest against the German government's planned cuts to agricultural sector subsides". "subsides" - they are fighting to keep these privileges. Nowhere else is the agriculture sector so much protected than in Germany (and the EU). They are driving with tax-free diesel to the protests. Agriculture for example has quite a different structure in Germany compared to the US.