Heiner Geisler is doing what I like about him again: shitting on the current direction of the Union and simply speaking his mind. And as has happened occasionally in recent years, I agree with him again. Even though he's certainly looking at the problem from a completely different angle - the result is the same.
Capitalism devours its children. In the past, capitalists also knew their Marx - perhaps not because they wanted to implement his ideas, but because they wanted to prevent them. But at least they thought about how they could precisely contain the errors that would lead to what Marx described as inevitable in capitalism.
Today only short-term profit and short-sighted personal enrichment count. And that combined with an unprecedented freedom of managers from responsibility. No matter how crappy a result is, managers can continue to pat themselves on the back - and in the next place they can find someone they can run into the ground.
In parallel, the influence of multinational corporations keeps growing - so large that nowadays the various business associations basically only cry for these corporations and completely overlook that with all this madness their own companies will also fall by the wayside.
How can a head of the trades association seriously advocate for economic development that will ultimately sustainably damage the domestic market? Doesn't it occur to them that craftspeople's businesses live almost exclusively off the domestic market? How is a painter or plumber supposed to sell their services if nobody has the money to pay them anymore - only large companies and administrations alone cannot ensure the survival of the trades.
Same with the association heads of retail trade - how stupid do you have to be to speak out in favor of measures that directly and immediately reduce the purchasing power of citizens as the head of such an association? How are retail chains - even large chains like Metro - supposed to make meaningful sales in Germany if only a small upper class can afford to shop (or wants to - it's not necessarily about what people can do, but what they think they can do and act accordingly)?
Ultimately, the same applies to the BDI chief and all the other straw men: if companies with German headquarters become fewer and fewer, there will soon be no need for German business associations anymore. Maybe one or two lobbying organizations remain, but why would large corporations put money into an association if only they and maybe a Japanese competitor sit in that association anyway? Do they really believe that their smaller industrial company will survive the wave of mergers and hostile takeovers?
What is currently happening is primarily, of course, fatal for the people who have to live in this system and who see the increasing dismantling of their rights and security. But that's only the beginning - with the people, the domestic market also goes under and with it the economy itself. All the babblers who today help to break apart the system with their reforms are definitively burying the German economic location. And once that's gone, Europe won't be doing well for much longer either - because other countries in Europe are going through these problems too and everywhere things are being dismantled.
The result that is emerging cannot be the goal - because we've already had a society where workers are dirt and the money bags ultimately determine everything. And in every era when we had that, we didn't like it. One would think we had finally learned something from our history...
I found the original article at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.