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Re:Germany’s hidden hunger by dx034 on Thursday September 21, 2017 @09:57AM (#15303406)
Social inequality was one of the biggest topics in the election. It still didn't help to break Merkel's popularity but the whole election campaign of the SPD was centered around that topic.

It appears to me that Germans are very aware of social inequality. Minimum wages and restrictions around contract work were attempts to slow down the trend of growing social inequality. It hasn't stopped it but I think no country has yet found a way to stop/reverse the inequality brought by technology.

Re:Germany’s hidden hunger by Joe-Z on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:16AM (#15303629)
>It appears to me that Germans are very aware of social inequality

Maybe, but I don't think they are in the sense that really matters. First, I think a lot of people just see social inequality as a global problem, like all the refugees coming there from poorer countries.

Second, the impression that I often get from Germans is that they are all for helping people in dire straits but at the same time thinking that they are somehow excluded from ever getting into such a situation and that for people that do it's their own fault and they are somehow worth less for it.

Re:Germany’s hidden hunger by rbehrends on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:54AM (#15304024)
According to the most recent Ipsos MORI poll [1], "What worries the world", social inequality and poverty is the single biggest concern of Germans, with 46% putting it in first place.

[1] https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/2017-08/what-worri...

Re:Germany’s hidden hunger by Joe-Z on Thursday September 21, 2017 @12:07PM (#15304864)
Thanks for actually coming up with some numbers. The linked study also shows that the 2nd biggest worry is Terrorism at 38%. Now, I'm a believer that people are way too worried about terrorism because they get bombarded with terrorism in the news all the time. Similarly with social inequality: The social inequality people in Germany experience via the news is mainly concerning refugees, economic migrants and other international topics, no?

However if you show people what social inequality actually looks like in their own country they will dismiss it because that's not social inequality, that's just talking about 'Assis' (i.e. the people in dire straits who are themselves to blame for their situation, as I mentioned in my previous comment).

Re:Germany’s hidden hunger by cyborgx7 on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:53AM (#15310385)
>It still didn't help to break Merkel's popularity but the whole election campaign of the SPD was centered around that topic.

It did help to break Merkel's popularity when Martin Schulz was first elected as a candidate of the SPD and a lot of people thought social inequality and social justice would be a big topic of the election. The SPD lost all that support again when it turned out their strategy for making social inequality a topic in the election was just saying the words "social justice" a lot with no substance to follow up with.