It feels like the German railroad system is being actively sabotaged with bureaucratic obstacles and legislative nonsense, like lobbyists are actively lining the pockets of politicians to make the Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) worse.
On top of that the statements of politicians, promising to make the trains come on time by 2070(!), it feels like they are not even trying to do stuff. Now Merz said the 58€ ticket (which was already raised from 49) should cost 90€ because it “costs the state too much”.
When I look at chinese railroads, what type of rail infrastucture they can build in 10-15 years, I wonder what is going on in Germany.
I had this idea since corruption is basically legal, masked as lobbyism and because german bureaucracy is basically one of the worst in the whole of Europe if you ask me. Do you think this is too far fetched or could this actually be the case? And are you able to find some sources?
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Absolutely. Germany also has huge assets in the car industry. VW, one of the worst offenders ans whose chairmen were recently sentenced to jail for their own mass murder (through exhaust fume manipulation) and still got off easy.
Jup, the car industry is oil golden cow here in germany.
For how much longer though, with energy costs spiraling out of control? Even the US’s auto industry is no longer competitive globally, and their energy situation is nowhere near as bad as ours here in Germany.
At this point the German auto industry is coasting forward on pure inertia since it is so big, but the recent mass layoffs and closures of factories have shown that it’s only a matter of time until that inertia runs out.
The state will try to prop them up of course as long as they can, because if and when the auto industry implodes the effects on the German economy will be catastrophic. But that will come at the cost of more and more austerity.
Completely agree. And the bourgeoise government has no intention of doing anything about it, rather aquiring the largest army in europe is intended.
Most of big car is shifting towards the military-industrial complex. I come from a heavy auto industry-focused region in the south and it’s absolutely catastrophic, young people are being laid-off en masse, while basically all factories are a minute from closer or moving out of the country.
Besides, austerity is the point, the trend in the west is trump/milei style holistic-canablization.