Like this article starts out with a bold claim that's...wrong.
Germany have done well. A western country has done well. Elephant in the room, massive 80 million person country, major western power, and the American claims no-one's done a good job because the US hasn't.
And then he goes into talking about having pre-prepared therapies or a vaccine. Again, we already have to an extent. You can't make a vaccine before the virus exists, but you can have a way of rapidly making one. We do have pre-prepared vaccines, like this one:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-03-27-oxford-covid-19-vaccine-...
Perhaps, again, he's just talking about the US?
- Rents are sky high, and the landowners and people in power have no intention of changing that. In fact, they import more people at any opportunity in order to increase the size of the industrial reserve army and push up rents.
- Germany has no substantial capacity of manufacturing simple goods like masks.
- While Germany still has manufacturing, the middle and lower classes are exploited and relatively poor.
But people get what they vote for.
Who is this in comparison to?
Could you share where you got this info?
Germans are taxed much higher than people in the US: A tax rate of 42% on income over 57K euros, vs 22% in the US (and the US bracket tops out at 37% for 500K USD). Gross national income is lower, 54K in Germany vs vs 63K for USA (though still quite good). Other sites peg Germany as 82% the purchasing power of the US, though less cost of living. Yet many durable goods are much more expensive in Germany. Cars are ~28% more expensive, gas is more expensive, electronics are more expensive: iPad in the US costs $800 vs $950 in Germany. Utilities are 56% more expensive in Germany, clothing 40% more expensive.
Some stats: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Germany/Un...
His work doesn't foster this. Being able to sell a product that has nearly infinite margins will naturally be more profitable than the alternative.
> not having to pay taxes on their profits.
The government has enough tax revenue, how about they stop spending it on pointless wars and destruction.
Disengaging always makes things worse. After the ‘Surge’ in Iraq the US tried to pull out and what happened? ISIS. The US pulled out of north Syria and our (talking broadly, I’m a Brit) allies the Kurds got massacred and thousands of ISIS prisoners got loose again. Walking away doesn’t work, we tried that with Afghanistan, just leaving it to the Taliban after the Soviets pulled out, and they came after us in New York anyway. It’s a small world whether we like it or not, and we’re in it together.