- Whenever I had the chance to talk to „leadership“ people about the lack of progress in transforming energy production towards renewables they were essentially telling me “all is good, we have a great deal with Gasprom, they will always deliver because we’re too important for them”
- Whenever I asked about things digital and a lack of local Cloud providers and expertise in Software Engineering: “we have excellent education (we don’t) and look, when there’s the time we will be excellent in shipping great software with our products. The market just doesn’t require it yet (about 10y ago)”
- “China needs us as much as we need them. Look at the import/export fraction to China in recent years”
- “Look we are world class with out ICE tech. Why would we give that up for stupid electro?”
And so on.. German politicians were stupid enough to follow the lobbying and public opinions. Meanwhile even German conservatives that used to be halfway reliable start campaigning using fake news and drive cultural wars. Chancellor Scholz publicly stated that Germany has a new Wirtschaftswunder in nearsight “because of all the work that needs to be done” (lol)