Isn't this an advantage?

Why should a rich country keep its industry and salaries flat for so long?

Industrial companies have been the backbone of the German economy for the longest time. They provided decent living wages for a large section of the blue collar workforce.

The reality is that not everyone is built for a office job, not everyone has the skills, education or intellectual capacity to work in a service-based economy. Yet, these folks could make a decent living for themselves.

"Decent living" for the standards of year 2000 perhaps. Real wages stagnated for a long time while rich got relatively even richer. Furthermore, the structure of the economy has been changing, it's just that Germany is slow to adapt (perhaps more so because of its aging population).

> Yet, these folks could make a decent living for themselves.

They should remember the day they are going to vote.

Losing jobs ain't really an advantage ... At least, salaries won't stay flat either, there will be none - if you see that as an advantage?

What makes you say that?

We now have the highest electricity cost in the world. In my city the price currently is at 40 USD cents per kilowatt hour. The policy of the current government is radically anti climate change. Foreighn investments into Germany have plummeted in the last year.

This just seems like anti-China propaganda, no?

"German Deindustrialization Is Still Looming" - so it hasn't actually begun?

Articles like that one and many others:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-12/germany-w...

Rising energy prices, laws that make industrial products like cars reach prohibitive prices.

Energy prices are rising in all of the industrialized world, and cars are reaching "prohibitive prices" everywhere. Does that mean the whole world, not just Germany, is deindustrializing?