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Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by nforgerit on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:36PM (#35782074)
Same here. It all feels like Jürgen Trittin's lifework, deciding end of nuclear in early 2000s, was prioritized higher than climate change. Everyday I'm looking at the energy mix, I'm getting very angry that they decided to bet everything on being able to grow renewables in never-before-manner; that in a situation of an almost recession, a lack of workers, government paralysis due to over-bureaucratic processes, et al. It's so stupid, it makes me wanna leave the country.

Edit: And though I'm pro delivering weapons to Ukraine, I was deeply disgusted by their socialmedia marketing ("free the leopards").

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Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by legulere on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:46PM (#35782169)
Isn’t recession and lack of workers contradictory?
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Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by fileeditview on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @02:28AM (#35784066)
I don't think so. Lack of workers means you cannot e.g. produce all the goods you want to produce. This will result in less goods being sold -> recession. So basically the lack of workers could be understood as a potential to grow but if you cannot satisfy the demand for workers it will have the opposite effect.

I am not an economist so it might be totally wrong but that is my understanding.

edit: fixed typos

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Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:36AM (#35789216)
If you produce N goods now and want to produce N+1 goods but cannot find labor how does that result in producing N-1 goods?
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Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by fileeditview on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:04PM (#35789694)
Who is saying that you still can produce N goods? If you don't have enough workers (anymore).

Having the potential to grow (e.g. orders) doesn't mean you cannot shrink at the same time because you just cannot produce e.g.

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Re:Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:29PM (#35793722)
Indeed. "grow" was in one of the parents so I assumed everyone was meaning more leading to my post.
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