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> And it's not just in programming-related jobs either. Parts of industry and the blue collar market are shitting themselves in Germany right now. > Politician
by odiroot 2y ago
> And it's not just in programming-related jobs either. Parts of industry and the blue collar market are shitting themselves in Germany right now.
> Politicians are still complaining about Fachkräftemangel,
These two things can be, and in fact are right now true at the same time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_unemployment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_unemployment
Everyone coming from an ex-Warsaw-Pact country most probably already lived through that before. We've entered the market economy (and stopped the play-pretend) with huge unemployment and lack of skilled workers at the same time.
- vbi8iBEX 2y agoI think this is the most interesting and telling comment i've read. Inflation destroyed the world economy.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoInflation is a symptom. Related or not (Covid was a big shock after all), "rich" countries have been living way over their means for many decades now (in terms of natural resources). It's particularly wild to see people calling for a return to the "norm" that were the post-WW2 decades : that wasn't a "norm", that was the fastest growth period that mankind had ever seen (and probably will ever see) ! So now (since the 1970s) we are way over due for a correction... which is probably going to look like a few centuries of recession with a few good years (for some maybe even good decades) thrown in here and there.