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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by cmarschner on Monday January 04, 2021 @10:56AM (#25632917)
>This is, of course, why Germany is famously an engineering wasteland with no notable impact on the global economy.

I suppose you're only referring to _software engineering_?

Because in traditional engineering Germany is a powerhouse, with countless market leaders in their individual niches, plus the ubiquitous car and machinery industries.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by acdha on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:00AM (#25632971)
I was being sarcastic — Germany's union system is an existence proof that the claims made about unions in the U.S., to the extent that they're even true here, are artifacts of a bad system rather than inherent to the concept.
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