chatelot16 wrote:
good government means to effectively use all available means as are for example not to waste the money automate easy work when there is work available from the hand
the largest European country in ruins was dropped their industry with this kind of mismanagement, but in the great country that mistake is suportable longer than in smaller countries
You forget that individually, each company has every interest in automating! [as it is in its interest not to bear the ecological costs of its activity, which are "shared" - see health!]
And that if a government would force them, they relocate ...!
It is not mismanagement.. It is an implacable logic, with as basic ingredient, the lack of means of "politicians" to regulate the economy [it is not for nothing that they came to exist, to exist, to compete with the "people" !], with the momentum towards globalization / relocation / deregulation (which
benefited us individually : let us never forget that we would not have the standard of living, in "quantity of goods", without the small hands of the countries with low costs! So we were never really against: we throw ourselves on the last I-thing, made in China!]).
The most "competitive" pulled the others down:
- China and other Asian countries, become dominant for mass production (even if today, it is already delocalized further: Kenya, Vietnam, etc ...).
- Germany "restructured" - violently - by Schroeder (read what the so-called Hartz measures included from the beginning of the 2000s, following the big blow of bamboo that was the digestion of the "cash" absorption of Germany East - 1 East Mark = 1 West Mark, an expensive poker move from Kohl, but politically "elegant" !:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9formes_Hartz) on "high value" production, "industrial design" ... Remember that in Germany there is no minimum wage, people who accept jobs at 4 euros!
[So do not be surprised they are as virulent with the Greeks !!! They also morflé, though, were the first today, they benefit wickedly regained their competitiveness! I think even if it is arrogant, they have some legitimacy to open it, to return to what has been written above!]
And to a certain extent, USA is also getting off for the "virtual" (Google, Facebook, Amazon ...). As we have seen, because of their "universal currency" (let's not forget what represents, cumulative, their colossal private debt, and their issue of currency without counter-value!)
And between these two, others (France, Italy, Spain, but also Japan and Korea!) Have derusted !!!
Even if each of the niches remains: finance / laundering in Switzerland, luxury / fashion / champagne in France, high-end mechanics + luxury (Ferrari, fashion ...) in Italy, etc ... which allows them to "drag yourself" between two waters ...
If we do not understand that, it is because we are naive. Or a blind follower of "yaka", "ifaucon" solutions!
As always, this is just my opinion and my vision. To debate. Even if the ideas seem arrested!