Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year
by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:09PM
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> Grand-German-Workers-Collective-Where-All-1-Million-Employees-Are-Also-Shareholders (German probably has 1 big compound word for this :-D ).
Google tells me its Arbeitsgenossenschaft
That "small number of pockets" is probably still mostly German. It could have been Chinese or Romanian or Botswanan and no German would have seen an eurocent. Plus, again, taxes, local development in adjacent industries, local talent staying local, a million other benefits.
Their gain is not necessarily your loss, especially since their product is a high tech product that doesn't seem to be based on technology stolen from anyone else, they created it.
It's still a victory for Germany and Germans, even if it wasn't achieved by the Grand-German-Workers-Collective-Where-All-1-Million-Employees-Are-Also-Shareholders (German probably has 1 big compound word for this :-D ).