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by llampx 6y ago
Shutting down an economy is well past any fathomable emergency.
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by llampx 6y ago
It is that bad, but the people who are affected are not the ones making the decisions. Just like with the Mietendeckel. The politicians have nice apartments and villas already and high incomes, same with the ones who want to reduce welfare
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by llampx 6y ago
Yeah, millennials coding apps are the problem. Not the ones owning the cafe, the building it resides in and the apartments everyone lives in.
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by llampx 6y ago
EXACTLY. This is how I feel as a millennial who hasn't started on the ground floor and doesn't have rich parents who did.
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by llampx 6y ago
Empty apartments are more attractive for buyers but if your intention is to rent it anyway, it wouldn't have made a difference, as the Mietendeckel ensured you couldn't rent it for more than what the previous tenant was paying.
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by llampx 6y ago
The government in Berlin is hardly an exception. The rot goes to the top. The entire government is composed of incompetent Beamter biding their time till their fat pension, stuck in the good old days when you didn't have to do any work
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by llampx 6y ago
That all they care about is getting reelected by people who live there and want free stuff, rather than solving real, hard problems?
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by llampx 6y ago
And what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
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by llampx 6y ago
Berlin needs much more new housing. I keep an eye on the market both for buying and for renting , and the prices for buying have exploded upwards at the same time as the number of flats for rent has steeply declined. Empty ugly spaces (not
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by llampx 6y ago
Sounds a bit like concern trolling if this is used to stop or delay building new apartments that people would love to move into.
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by llampx 6y ago
Same in Switzerland. The taxation laws and low interest rates lead to a perverse incentive where people get million CHF apartments that they never pay off because if they do pay it off their real tax rate would go up tremendously. So they j
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by llampx 6y ago
You hit on the major problem. That it's hard to build in the city. So many ugly buildings under Denkmalschutz, so many empty concrete spaces and people still want to live where the facilities are, not in the outskirts if they have the
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by llampx 6y ago
There are millions of chinese and other people who want safe investment vehicles. If the government does nothing, land and housing in a big capital can easily be usurped by investors who then take massive tax breaks.
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by llampx 6y ago
Thatcher has been out of office since decades. If this was important to the people they would vote for people who promise to bring it back. Or politicians are corrupt and Thatcher is a good excuse. Take your pick.
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by llampx 6y ago
Those are great if you can wait years
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by llampx 6y ago
You tell me
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by llampx 6y ago
Yes but the only thing keeping the prices halfway reasonable are the laws and regulations that apply in Berlin. Without those the situation would be much worse.
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by llampx 6y ago
As a new manager, especially with a work culture like you describe, it can definitely be easier to go with the flow and be an asshole "like everyone else" If you do things differently, you open yourself up to criticism and if anyt
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by llampx 6y ago
And ex-US?
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by llampx 6y ago
Meanwhile our government in Germany first told us that masks are useless (paraphrased), then later reversed their stance, and now require FFP2 masks to enter any shop, bus, train and so on. Meanwhile multiple government officials and minist
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by llampx 6y ago
Nice thought, but highly unlikely.
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by llampx 6y ago
I'm no expert but these appliances don't seem to be very programmable. For example, can I set the living room bulbs to be white in the day, gradually turn yellower throughout the evening and red at night? To me it just seems like
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by llampx 6y ago
I feel sad somehow. Huawei was the only company which was going toe-to-toe against Google and Apple in the AI space. I saw it in their phones, which were better than many others, and had even better computational photography than Pixels of
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by llampx 6y ago
Yup, I feel like we are sacrificing our young to add a few more years to the average old person's life. Sounds a bit heartless, but so does ruining years of development of children and youth so that the old have a longer life.
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by llampx 6y ago
It showed me that failed German politicians go to the EU and become High-Ranking officials there, possibly because Germany is the most powerful country in the EU.
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by llampx 6y ago
If she knows the right people, that can more than pay for her salary.
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by llampx 6y ago
It would be enough if they wouldn't actively encourage scammers. Seems like everyone knows at this point that Paypal and ebay's "buyer protections" actively work against the seller. I myself was out $1300 after selling a
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by llampx 6y ago
This is definitely true. For singles and DINKS it is still manageable, you can get by with a 1 or 2 bedroom place. However once you have a baby or a couple of kids, your space requirements balloon, and with that, the costs. Say we have two
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by llampx 6y ago
Durchzug mördet!
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by llampx 6y ago
Does wfh really give back time to people? From what I've seen with colleagues and friends, it mostly has led to longer working hours. The commute time and the time before dinner has been replaced by more work. If you have been able to

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