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Re:Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf] by Bombthecat on Saturday November 19, 2016 @03:11AM (#12992554)
Sounds like Germany right now.

Next year we will spent around 25% on refugees. I wonder when the point of an emergency budget arrives.

Re:Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf] by chopin on Saturday November 19, 2016 @05:49AM (#12992863)
25% of what? Do you have a source?
Re:Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf] by Bombthecat on Saturday November 19, 2016 @07:07AM (#12993117)
http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/EN/Standardart...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/budget-battle-be...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-co...

http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2016-02/fluechtlinge-haushalt-...

interestingly, German sources like Zeit estimates / writes about 50 billion for 2017, while all English sources low ball here. (or don´t cite the source) Zeit is a pretty well known source.

As we both know, projects and estimations are are hard! Very hard! So I guess it will be around 60 billion :)

Tax revenue plans around 230 to 300 billion. Hence the 25% and my guess that they will announce soon or later an emergency budget to cut costs (we have a law, basically saying: we must go to our black 0, at all costs) Cutting costs hits the usual targets (I guess):

https://www.iwkoeln.de/en/iw-news/beitrag/german-budget-why-...

http://www.dw.com/en/sch%C3%A4uble-clings-to-black-zero-feti...

Social services Infrastructure School and education

etc.

Interesting times are ahead :)

Re:Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf] by ethbro on Sunday November 20, 2016 @05:37AM (#12998201)
I thought one of the reasons Germany was accepting refugees more so than other countries was because they had a demographic / labor problem that refugees would help fix?
Re:Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf] by Bombthecat on Sunday November 20, 2016 @06:30AM (#12998313)
No labor problem. What is missing are highly educated or experienced IT people.

What a problem is that germans arw too expensive. Back when germany invited the turkish people they at least admitted they wanted cheap labor.

Now they are just lying. Or completely ignoring that in ten or twenty years those people will be useless and sit at home because a ton of those jobs will be automated.

Re:Robots and industrialization in developing countries [pdf] by ethbro on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:10AM (#12998904)
When you've got a negative population trend, it's hard to argue against migration under any circumstances. Maybe capital and automation take the place of younger workers, but that's a pretty serious bet to gamble social welfare program solvency on.

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-refugees-d...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2016/jan/06/refuge...