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Re:Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for ... by sparkling on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @07:47AM (#36598995)
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.

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Re:Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for ... by Scharkenberg on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:26AM (#36599407)
"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).
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Re:Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for ... by DeathArrow on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:29AM (#36599448)
> Yet, these folks could make a decent living for themselves.

They should remember the day they are going to vote.

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