Germany's "working poor"
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- Germany's economy is booming. The unemployment rate is low. But at the job centres, people keep queuing up.
Many have a job, but they are known as the "working poor":en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working.... They have qualifications, but their badly payed - often part-time - jobs or temp-work don't cover basic needs. Social benefits help top up their income.
Among pensioners, too, poverty is growing. Monika Sagertsch from Berlin is trained as a sales manager but never got a full-time contra…
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Sometimes, what's behind a country with low unemployment rate is low-paid workers with high working hours :(
I worked in Germany 2 years ago. You never get enough money to live or to just pay your bills but what killed me is that you have to wake up at 04:00 am everyday and work like a slave for nothing. No one will rent you an apartment because your salary is so low.
Fake news
Hey
the same i hear from Berli artists who want to live in center of center by taking pictures of flowers 😂😂
what`s your job?
Germany has free college. Just go get a free trade or skills to get better pay.
Same across Europe! UK has the lowest unemployment since 1975 but what they don't say is in 1975 they were real full time jobs that paid a living wage and not zero hour contracts!
It used to be: get a degree or you’ll be working at Starbucks. Now it’s : you need a degree to work at Starbucks.
Hii bro:
Degree to work at McDonald's
same here in the UK,people in full time job's having to use food banks just to get by
Every Western country seems to have the "working poor" problem . In Canada where I live there are lots of working poor
Are you implying people in Asia, eastern Europe, Africa and the middle east dont have people working full hours that cant afford the cost of living as well?
You don't have true working poor in Canada. Nobody there lives on $1/day, or $10/day. Your definition of poor has a higher standard of living than the United States median in 1970.
@@christianlibertarian5488 canadians are so spoiled they complain about everything and even call themselves poor.. lol.. they should come to third word countries and realise they live like kings..
@@AlexFlockhart No , not at all I have been to countries in the regions you mentioned and the I see people in those countries struggle. I've been to Thailand , Armenia , Lebanon , Bulgaria and see their struggles
@@christianlibertarian5488 Well everything is relative . In Canada in cities like Toronto the cost of living is very high so the salary people need to cover there expenses is very high . And many of the jobs in Canada are low skill , low pay service jobs especially in Eastern Canada
So it's not just the UK...
Not just Europe
The world, the goal, we are just “worthless eaters”
Nope, this is everywhere!
Go to Australia
@@eustab.anas-mann9510 Why Australia? That country kicks people to the curb who are older workers and want to work. There’s no where to go that’s willing to pay people a decent, livable wage! It’s all about greed; people are secondary to greed!
This happened every where on earth. It's unfair to those underpaid workers.
The unemployment rate is not low. The employment figure includes too many low income and part time worker; hence they can't make ends meet - although officially people are employed.
A better way to calculate unemployment would be to classify anyone who lives below the basic requirements, irrespective of whether they have a job, as unemployed. That would shed light on real figures.
in america theres people that work 40 to 50 hours a week and cant afford a place to live
My goodness! This happens in Germany too?! I thought you were the Greatest and wisest people. Really very sorry to see this.
This problem is everywhere now. I was a freelance Eng. teacher in Mexico working through Eng. teaching institutions for 6 years. I got tired of not ever having benefits, health coverage, absolutely nothing, not even job stability so that means no stable income. I never knew how much I would make a month in advance, I couldn't plan anything financially. Taught people on the side on top of it on a self-employed basis but that never offered stable continuous work either. I left, went back to Canada, but even here this trend has started. I am scared for the future. Only a few people will have stable good paying jobs with benefits, the rest of us will become slaves, feeling like scavengers looking for those hours of work we need a week to make it without benefits or anything.
That's the thing, not everyone can have a meaningful job with benefits. Overpopulation will only make it harder
@ And economists, journalists, politicians constantly complain that First Worlders have too few children, and that they should welcome Third World migrants to keep the economy humming along.
I'm still trying to make a connection here, because it wasn't so very long ago that there were people barracking for part-time work, because they didn't want full-time work (something about a work-life balance), and expected to make a living doing it. Now I hear of these people running around like headless chooks trying to make ends meet, while the full-time workers are sitting pretty. What ever happened to that ideal lifestyle?
But, here's the big picture. If they can squeeze part-timers, they can squeeze full-timers too and I can see that coming. Remove a benefit here and there, reduce hours of work, etc. Anything to save a buck.
I work in transport and I've seen all of this. Things have been getting steadily tighter since '08 and people go on putting on a brave face about it. The truth is that all these bail-outs during and since '08 have robbed the public coffers to a substantial degree, the difference of which has been made up by going into massive national debt, which will have catastrophic consequences. It's already biting us in the workplace.
I thought Europe had it all figured out, and Germany was the shining example..
Me too
Solution!...apply at the Pakistani embassy for citizenship...when finalized...then go to the German embassy and apply for refugee status and receive triple government benefits. There ! Problem solved!
Solution!...become a Muslim and attain perpetual victim status (apply at your local mosque). Then get married (in that same mosque, but don't officially register the marriage) and have a bunch of kids, ten or more. Then Fatima (or whatever your wife's name is) can toddle off to the local social security office without you, but with at least eight of those kids in tow, preferably one still lactating, and apply for the dole (make sure she doesn't name you as the father). If you're something of a Romeo, marry a second wife and perform the whole procedure again exactly the same. That way you'll be raking in the dole money. Anything else you need, all your wife needs do is stir up a small ruckus at the dole office, eight kids in tow. Any problems you run into, you point to your funny garb, tell them you're a Muslim and that it's religious discrimination. And you're set.
If you really want to do it right, also do these things: 1) change your name so that it doesn't sound German, and 2) learn the Pakistani language, if possible
Urdu
Alex462047 you register in mosques, never heard that before, what do you register for?
With a growing old age population Germany needs young people. So government wants immigration, that means you need to compete with them. It's not them who is paying low it's the companies. If you want to out compete get high qualification become a A&E consultant or plastic surgeon. Don't blame muslims for your problems. Blaming the Jews didn't go so well last time.
In the UK the Govt. made it mandatory for employers to contribute to people's pensions. The individual can opt out but the company can't. That is why some businesses have paid off workers on a Friday and taken them back on on Monday as self employed. Business always finds a way around them to the benefit of the bosses.
Time to stand up
So maybe mandatory pensions was a dumb idea.
meanwhile my father said he can't work anymore and he was 48 years old. Now he is 51 sleeping at home all day. So is my mom.
Wow. Ex girlfriend moved there last summer thinking everything was going to be sunshine and rainbows but now shes homeless because she wore out her welcome at a friends house and has a very low paying security job....I feel horrible..
This is exactly how I feel! Years of not getting a contract and just temp working 😭😭😭
Same thing start happening in Norway. All the workers from abroad taking the jobs of norwegians, and pressing salary down. Many work without paying tax, and cutting corners. Taking down norwegian businesses. Rich people dont care, and hiring low paying workers/companies without paying tax. Even goverment hiring low paying companies, and compete out local businesses. I see a bad future for the world.
lnesland Because of jew open border policy.
ah give me a break....the truth is Norwegians are using cheap workers to get rich fast while using holes in the law. Norwegians are avoiding to pay tax and they treat foreign workers differently in order to make more money.
National country with a people in regard from a country.
@?, ?, A area of Germany or a immagration as a culture other to a national as the person to a life with a theme?
I admit I’m surprised there are poor people in Norway 😯
Germanys proverty is growing....all knows that...
@@curiousgeorge6921 if you work hard enough and if the cost of workers are regulated it will not cause trouble. For example, fixed wages.
@@mybee2190 Fixed wages solve nothing. Debt should be abolished, Fractional Reserve Banking should be abolished, Taxes should be abolished, Fiat Currency should be abolished. o back to Gold standard/Bitcoin Standard. America worked perfectly fine with zero taxes, and became the richest country on the face of the Earth, before Fed came in 1913 and acted as a leach on the wealth. This is true of almost every country now.
@Mute Prime not really, Jews have put them selves in power positions and use friend politics to keep each other as high as possible
Znd why
The economy in the US is booming - if you're in the top 10%
For everyone else, it seems like it's poised to tip into another depression. I never recovered from the last one, going from $70k a year to $15k a year.
My husband didn’t work at all for two years. When he finally found some, he made 20% of his previous job. Eight years later, both of us together, are still making about 40% of what he made alone. The fun never ends!
You should have also been more flexible with your job and experience and have adapted to the social changes in the technological age. Companies are becoming ever more efficient and they don't care about you one bit so you have to make sure you add value. This means that mainly blue collar work is affected the most. Also I would recommend always look for a job never stop. And stop being loyal to companies. Either way its easier said than done but I hope you all have had a real wake up call.
@@debbiesavage7107 Can you explain more?
@alex carter I know the feeling. I pray 2021 is our year of restoration and many blessings!
The probably of the western culture is - kids do not live with their family. After retirement of the parents they still struggle in their life alone during their older age, when their bodies are worse in order to work.
Here in India, my both mother father worked hard, build their retail property, later when they will get retire, they would still work or not (it all depend), but their kids already got the retail property purchased by parents, hence my expenses in later life would be less , I won't be worrying on buying property.
If my parents would be doing business, later it would inherited by their kids. In older age, I would take care of my parents like when they had took care of me when I was kid.
Everywhere's working poor. (Canada.) It's not just MW. It's not enough hours. (40h/week +) Almost never happens.
Gave up in the USA. I was 61, poor health, four jobs 16 hours day, and still couldn’t afford a legal apartment. I rented a shared bedroom in a house. Bathroom shared by 16 people. No kitchen or cooking facilities. No health insurance. Come Covid, all the tenants got three days to be gone. No protection for illegal residences!
There was a time when companies preferred permanent staff. Well organized unions were able to cripple companies with strikes. Over time, companies learned that this was not a battle they could win. What could not be outsourced off-shore was then out-sourced out of the companies. In the 2000's prior to Covid, flying with a connection through one of the European hubs was always problematic because a strike by any on of the unions, airline, airport or whatever, could cause issues. Usually it was the shorter segments that were cancelled. This made it difficult to do short trips, because if you lose 1 day, there is almost no point.
I am from Nepal. Poor country. But we never have problems like that because our all families live together whole life. I am 31 years and i have been living with parents all my life. That means my mother father and me joinly pays for the house rent if i start to earn.
And true fact is that i havenot till now pay for the rent and my parents havenot force me till now.
Sujal Shrestha - Your situation in Nepal does not sound very pleasant at all, I'm afraid.
@@wiseonwords it's the best we can do here , Same here in India that's how we get something to save , renting flats individually just makes no sense it just adds up useless cost besides our banks pay us 9% interest every year on our savings not bad
Dennis Lewis at least he doesn’t complain , maybe it’s time for European to accept their faith . The glory ages are over !!!
RIP ur English 🤣🤣😂😂 You should live in Nepal ok..dont go anywhere
I guess this is a cultural thing. Most people in America would not find this acceptable. I would not want to live like this but acknowledge that for some they like being that close and have a larger savings. I would choose a smaller place and be only with my husband than live in a large place with his family or mine.
If only the German corrupt Govt. cared about it’s people instead of some unknown migrants.
Weiser Adler so many liberal governments in our once lovely europe setting the seeds of the future race war that will happen in the not too distance future.
It's alway the immigrants fault.
True
@@Buildbeautiful can't wait for that day we can finally get our homelands back
@@francisbell1961 what makes you think you'll survive that war long enough to see the results?
Similar here in Australia, and only getting worst with Uber, Menuelog etc and a host of other web based casual job markets like Airtasker etc.
When i was visiting greece once, when we were talking, one guy said, "is this just a crisis? Or the new world order". People just blame each other. But this only happens because we are expendable. The rich only, have the right to live, and become richer. We need to learn how to be cheap working robots, and be proud and happy about it. Its sad what the overpopulation has brought us.
No, selling out to China did.
What overpopulation?? The european populations are pretty stable and not growing and in parts of East Europe its even Shrinking e/g Bulgaria went from 10 million down to 6 or even 5.5 million now. This stigma and idea that we are too much people and that has made things worse seems to only be blaming the people and not this overly retarded globalist system. We have enough land and enough resources. That being said i dont advocate for a huge population boost that doesnt solve the problem neither, but less urbanization does help.
Min wage in the uk is £7.80 thats about 8 euros per hour.
try living on that in the uk.
Also the pensions the second lowest in europe.
The solution to that is not to make it more difficult to do business in the UK, or to make it more expensive to hire workers.
and no pension until 67 in my case.
My british employer used to pay me 5.5 pounds per hour, cash in hand. He could have hired a british for the job, but they ask double my pay. And since the british are the cheapest people on earth, british bosses of course prefer to give jobs to vulnerable immigrants.
Then the other british blame the immigrants for the problems their own people created in the first place. And round and round we go. The rich get richer while the poor fight among themselves.
I met a German guy a couple of years ago who was traveling around the world by working in Germany for a few months then taking off to places he'd never been. When I met him he had been doing that for a couple of years. He's a carpenter but he takes on temp work since he decided to make visiting countries he's never been his priority. I marvel that he is able to do what he does when others can't make it on temp work.
The internet destroyed many jobs.
Our low income as music teachers (especially in Berlin) is based on laws made in the 70s! By the law our university degrees don't compare to scientific degrees (like an engineer or a public school teacher) because you don't need A levels to study at an University of Arts, because the individual musical talent is a much more significant indicator for telling whether you're qualified to become a professional musician / music teacher or not. So our payment grade is much lower than the income of a public school teacher, although we work in public service. Furthermore Berlin is exploiting its position as a capital (the City is great, everybody wants to be here... ;-) When they have to save money they save it on culture and education first. Music schools are voluntary services by the city government, they try to keep it in service and they they try to save as much money as they can. So the government discovered a way to get cheap workers: Freelance! They have to pay less to freelancers than paying permanent employees (although there are currently some lawsuits pending, whether this procedure is legal anyway...) This whole development of our situation has nothing to do with refugees. It started in the 70s and got worse during the 90s. It is more still about reunification (the average income in the eastern part of Germany is still much lower than in the western part).
Hmm. Will the law allow you to band together and form a union or similar association with collective bargaining power? I get the impression that's what your friend in the dark hat was aiming towards in your interview.
The academic rigor difference between a Music major and any Field in Science is huge...and the demand for one or the other is even bigger ...do you see PhD Physicists or Chemical Engineers Busking on the Street for Change ? Like wise Phoney Degrees in Women's Studies , Indigenous Studies, etc.
This is very interesting. Here in America one can say it's getting worse. Now alot of young Americans with a college degree can't even find jobs anymore! WITH A COLLEGE DEGREE. Due to the job market and other situations it's not like 20 or so years ago that you were guaranteed a job in your field of study right after college....
I enjoy playing Piano and Guitar, but that doesn't pay the bills. Just lol at centering your life around music and expecting to make money. Get a real job, and play music in your free time.
@@Coconutlacroix Do you lol when you listen to your favourite musicians because their work would never have reached your ears if they'd shared your attitude
"job center", the name alone says it all.!!
Meanwhile an artist in Berlin stuggles to make ends meat and starts to hate those responsible , repeat .
Meet.
Meat is something you eat, not something you do.
Very interesting thank you 🙏
This is a result of 0 hour type contracts the long term effects mean less money in retirement and less taxes to pay into said pot for the pensions treasury plus more goes out in welfare due to this .
In the end companies need to less greedy with the contracts it is s lack of stable hours rather than pay. Id rather have a contract for 35 hours a week than working all random hours with no stable pay of which contributes nearly nothing to pensions.
Its called General Labor here in EEUU , minimum wage pay
very touching documentary.
It's the same here in America. A lot is being fueled by greed!!
Germany has to remodel the economy thus way to be able to compete with China and other low cost of labour countries. That's why they were able to weather the storm during the recession in the eu...
Low cost labour will be replaced by automation and AI.
Nobody sees what’s happening here we won’t have a good happy future I believe will have a revolution in the near future 😡
Same problem in Canada.
In Australia when you retire the combine rate of pension and superannuation is about $Aud 900 a fortnight. Which is half of what you get when you work full time. It's difficult to live on that after paying the rent,utilities,private health insurance & food. It's difficult to get full time work. The trend now is for casual & part time workers.
Well germany got "illegal immigrants" for cheap labour didn't they? What do you expect now? duh
she is a silly ill informed woman .. all of them think illegals get paid / , how ignorant racists are ..
Sooner or later it will be a problem either u like it or not just wait for it
Germany only implemented a minimum wage 2 years ago in 2015. I don't think the recent waves of immigration about that. Especially the ones with a predisposition against working. They would've had to take the immigrants pre-2015 for this to make sense. Right now, robots are much cheaper (when they can be used). It's also not trivial to hire to illegals or do much of anything illegal in Germany for that matter.
Besides, the EU itself drove down labour costs. There's always people from nearby Poland and other places that'll work hard at lower rates.
Improver Well there's a lot of unemployment in some eu countries so they will all want to move to countries like germany for work and on top of that the refugees who arrived will also have to get jobs at some point ... Couldn't that lower the basic income someday? Maybe... or lower the pensions etc.
If it wasn't for foreigners you would be rich like Bill Gates and life would be easy and awesome.
Retirement has always been a western concept. It just sucks that if there is no retirement and you have to keep working after 65, do you ever get a moment to enjoy life? I know in Canada from the time we start working, we pay a % into what is CPP. (Canadian Pension Plan). Those self employed have to make sure they contribute as there is no pay cheque to deduct it. At 60 or 65 years of age you get a certain amount of CPP to a maximum amount of CPP depending what you paid into it. Not enough to survive. So, at 65 years old we also have the Old Age Pension. This is for poorer seniors (welfare really) and it tops you up. Not everyone will qualify for this if you still have a good income at retirement from a private or public pension, or other savings. My mother in law is a poorer senior. She makes about $1200 Canadian dollars a month between a little CPP, her Old Age Pension and about $300 from a small private Pension. Her rent (utilities included) is $980 and this is for a very basic one bedroom apartment. I think if the kids were not around to help out (my husband pays her cable, internet and phone and everybody else helps with food etc...she would be in trouble with only about $5000 in savings) It has motivated my husband and I to save like bandits. We chose to have no kids. We are fortunate to both have defined benefit pension plans but my plan is under attack of being switched to a defined contribution. Only 30% of Canadians have a defined benefit pension plan and this is dwindling. In Canada I worry about all these social plans coming under fire as we have a liberal government putting Canada heavily into debt. Taxes keep going up. I feel the middle class is getting so squeezed that soon we will be the working poor too. Minimum wage at least in my province of Ontario will be $15 in a year. I hope things improve for everybody.
sounds like ''robbing Peter to pay Paul!''
Moe Wilson - spot on! This is a very accurate account.
Cute song at the end of this video detailing the music teachers’ plight!
7 minutes and not once was the question of taxes raised. in the EU, for an average middle class person, all taxes and duties combined (VAT, health, income, gasoline) can reach up to 60%. it's extortionary. it's no wonder people can't afford anything else.
Learned it in school in the 60’s, population explosion, Rats in a Cage” here it is !
this is why u must save every dollar u can while ur still young and invest if u know how.....no matter what we all become economically less viable and redundant when we grow old.....in fact u should have reach 70% of ur financial independence goal by the time u hit ur mid 40s and 30% by the time ur 30......
another person said its easy to own a bank ,than steal from a bank,meaning owning a bank you can charge intrest fees
Here in the US the majority of construction is "premium" apartments. What does this do to a growing city, with the same numerical count of homes? Yep, anything you can own increases in price. This means rents increase. Homes you can purchase increase in price. Rents increase...BRILLIANT. Government services are now being used to subsidize corporations.
Why no one wants to talk about the hardships of international students in Germany?? Why??
They could always go home 🤷🏾♀️
Because you can study in your home country.
James 5:1-4 a reason why low wage slave working is a reality.
The real challenge lies in providing competitive services. The German skilled craftsman wants to charge 30-35 Eur per hour. The software engineer in Germany gets somewhere 25 Eur per hour. So how that kind of hourly rate for craftmanship is justified? Do not forget that the migrants from the eastern europe would be happy to charge 10 - 15 Eur per hour and would love to work on even Sunday also. In this kind of condition, you are no more competitive and would loose your job.
Another aspect is the way western people live their life. They complain about poor hourly rate but wouldnt hesitate to spend 50-60 Eur at Pub during every weekend. You are supposed to save and invest money in some sort of investment plan during your 30's to 50's. So you will have enough money when you get old and no need to rely on Government support.
You know that the hourly price of a freelancer can not be compared to the wage of an employee, right? Btw.: Work on sundays is generally (with some minor exeptions) forbidden in Germany...
So basically in this new economy, many people only have two choices; remain unemployed indefinitely while trying to find one of the dwindling number of good-paying job with good benefits or accept steady part-time work with low pay and no benefits. And we were told that free trade would raise living standards everywhere.
Damn, I'm finally hearing some common sense solutions to growing income inequality in this video. And it's coming out of Germany - it's a shame that Americans can't be as sensible in our approach
Sadly.... that old boy handy man is me in a few years....😥 funny how footballers and other sportsmen can retire young as they wear their bodies out....yet tradesman are expected to work till their body drops....
this is so sad...
In France they say, 2.4 million officially.
On a 24 million employed, it's 10% already
Though they say it's 8%. If part time workers considered, it's more than 4 million, 20%
.
There should be a cap on the number of contract workers that business can undertake, otherwise this is just a loophole to avoid employment and security to people.
The problem is the central bank. Btw nice ending song 👍
It's very hard to make a living and have a life in the gig economy. I've been down that road, not knowing from one day to the next whetherr, where or when I would be working. If you're young, you can manage the precariousness of it. I actually preferred this haphazard working life to having to be confined to one workplace. I found it interesting and challenging. If you have young children it would be very difficult.
The worst part of being a casual is being unable to make plans. Banks won't lend you money. Agents won't rent you a place to live. You are more disposable than a full time employee..
What's going to happen to older people who have to wait longer for a pension? Casual contract workers should get a better deal to compensate for the lack of perks that full time workers get and the sacrifices they have to make in order to remain employed.
A whole industry has grown up around this concept. If you work for an agency, the middle man skims the top of your wages and you end up earning less.
They should be conducting research into the social, psychological and economic consequences of the casualization of employment.
This is the real issue. Freelance this freelance that. In reality everyone is wasting so much time looking for clients and services, it would be easier if people just knew where a service provider is and just go to them.
All based on demand. If there are lots of music teachers or decorators then the price falls. Simple economics. Change career or move to another location where you are needed.
Despite of this, salaries in Germany are better than in the UK
I think if you look into a lot of Western nations, a large proportion of people cannot afford to buy a home.
Any one stupid enough to Elect One World Open Border Socialists over and over deserve what they get...Trump 2020
spitzensteuersatz ist 42% kirchengiraffe. / tax rate is capped at 42% thanks for playing
Yes, I did not see many Germans live in tent cities like many Americans now are doing. (especially in California)
You pay 50% of your income to taxes? Jesus. Even the Nazi's only stole 13.7% of income.
You think that's bad. It's far far far worse in Ireland.
swissnor Same here in Britain.
And you guys in the U.k. have the additional problems of being politically unstable ie Scottish independence, Northern Ireland and Brexit to deal with.
Working poor without kids expenses in Western Europe:
Food
Public transportation around 80 euros month
Clothes
Phone bill
Utilities
Rent
Expenses for the working poor in the USA:
Car payment and car expenses
Credit cards
Medical bills
Doctor visits
Rent
Clothes
Food
Utilities
Lose money if you get sick
There is a difference for the working poor between Western Europe a d the USA, in the USA you have way more expenses, that is why the working poor in the USA work two or three jobs to survive
Same in Australia.
I tried to move to Berlin and the job market was EXTREMELY over saturated with foreigners (myself included) looking for work. I applied for hundreds of entry level positions, and after two months, I found a full-time job at a reputable company, but it was only paying 12€ an hour after taxes. That was barely enough to cover my room that I rented (850€ a month + utilities). So, I moved back to the US and make $18 an hour with full benefits. I find that my money stretches further here in America (not so many VAT taxes and what not), but then again, I am relatively healthy (no medical bills - yet).
Why has Germany come to this terrible situation ??
Novusud - Germany was and still is the main proponent of this "Euro scam," as you call it.
well atleast all would get help ..free healthcare etc. while in other countries u wont get anything not even free healthcare ..like US
I'm a part time artist and pay the basic bills working 2 different part time agency jobs, whenever I need and that gives me the flexibility and time for Art. On the other hand I don't have a family so bit easier. But regardless my situation, if governments start clamping on this contract jobs and force employers to fully employ more people instead of flexible employment through agencies, it may sound good at the beginning, but will rise the cost of employment and drive some employers from the countries to another location with cheap labour. Generally speaking if you impose to many restrictions and rules, you will only create more unemployment and more bureaucracy. Look at France, where young people can hardly find good paid job, if any at all. France has become socialist country with tough rules, but hardly any flexibility... It is all down to the fact that 3rd world countries are becoming more competitive and life in the affluent western countries and the poor ones will be levelling. And there were always be rich and poor people, always were. Thats the sad reality of life.
It's the high cost living that's the problem
My opinion : If you are a well qualified foreigner looking for employment my opinion is you should look for a job elsewhere other than Germany. If you are paid well the Government snatches almost half of what you earn and if you are unqualified you are at the mercy of sharks called employment agencies who rob you of almost half what you earn. Only politicians and bureaucracy are the winners in this land- And if you are a lower level german pensioner you will need to pick out bottles to make ends meet while the government pays billions for its welcoming culture.
Immigrant labor and Asian products.
-_-
Steel mills should have stayed open.
Germany can barely maintain a military but can spend money on over 1 million refugees. That’s neat .
Whoever has the minimum wage is actually in the same situation as before the slaves ....... you just don't let them die .... then you have maximum benefit from them said the rich
You guys let too many immigrants in, fault is on you
java blues Do you think the German economy is in danger? I'm German, in traineeship and I think I'll leave my country 'cause I have the impression, it gets worse and worse there.
And it is true that the government spend too much money for refugees. But there is no money for schools, hospitals etc
Melli Frei what country are you from?
andrew hoffy Germany
I dont think germans are the ones choosing the immigration policies, just like many other countries I think many of the PC leaders are making the borders more open while ignoring or even shaming the concerns of the public.
I'm assuming you are American based on the "you guys" part, fun fact America has WAAAAAAY MORE working poor than europe
So sad 😭
What you need is strong unions.
I can't live with parents. They are dead.
This problem is global & it is getting worse quickly....
RENT ! That`s Germany`s problem !!
whats the point in raising wages because soon as they raise the income they raises the taxes and cost of living so in the end nothing is getting better, i saw a program that had 2 monoploy games, the rich went around the board with 2 dices aand collected 500 and the poor went around the board with 1 dice and collected 300, so it means the poor cant climb up the ladder
Who do you not see there? Merkies immigrants because they are well paid just to stay home
The pro EU need to experience this in order to wake up.
Liberalizing a society is wonderful for the rich, but it is the death blow for a society and social cohesion. You see this in America and also in England. Mega rich and Mega poor.
And I'm un(der)employed for over 2 years after graduation. Thanks for nothing, Germany. The labour market is so horrible, especially towards minorities. I do not know where to begin. Why is it so complicated to get skilled work here?
Make Germany Great Again.
What people do not see is that this is the result of a combination of bad policies that culminated into this disaster. Very soon Germany will have to increase social security contributions or redirect taxes to save its social security fund, because a large number of well paid workers are beginning to retire with reasonable pensions and those workers are being replaced by cheap temporary workers that do not pay as much to social security, because they do not earn enough, at the same time you have refugees that receive some subsidies and housing, all of that money comes from taxes and from social security.
Germany need to privatize its pension system, so that the government cannot confiscate or redirect those pension contributions towards other purposes other than the pension of the worker. At the same time the government needs to limit the use of temporary workers, companies should not be allowed to use more than 20% of temp workers, that still allows for a 20% flexibility and ensures that most good workers will still get a permanent contract.
And inevitably the government will have to lower income taxes, so that even the low skilled workers will still be able to earn enough in the end of the month to pay for rent.
As a long term solution to the poor renters is to give tax deductions for the people that purchase their first home, receiving back from the government in the form of tax deductions the interest paid for the loan to buy the first house.
Obviously with all of this tax deductions and tax reductions the government will have to start cutting away in social benefits and governmental programs,
Question: if you are self employed (freelance) in Germany, are you required to pay into the state pension plan? You are in the USA. How much is she paying in each month? Or ... does she have unreported income (say lessons taught for cash) which doesn't get taxed for the pension?
When I lived in Germany from 1990 to 1994 it was well organised and people were cared for by the govt. People couldn't understand why I had so many jobs in Canada. In Europe you train via University to be a higher up or you have a trade and you stay that way for your whole career. While I had jobs like truck driver office worker and customer service. They thought I was flighty (nuts). Now they are in the same boat. The govt is taking the money the German people are encouraged to save. Its horrendous. I was thinking of moving back to Germany but not f-ing likely. Europe will implode and it won't be pretty. I worry about my relatives but we are all older now and hopefully they won't be around to experience the fighting.
And they still import cheap labour ...strange for a nation to give up on its own ...
Soy lent green begins.
"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."
- Paul Kael (1919-2001)
In my country, you buy a house/apartment and you don't pay rent. At the age of 40-50, you paid the bank and you live rent-free. I don't know why people in western Europe did not buy their apartments.
Because they cost 200000-300000e
@@egyptianhibiscus9203 200000-300000e is very cheap compared to Australia for that here you get nothing
We were told Germans had a better way of life because most rented whereas we struggled with mortgages. It now looks as if we were doing the right thing because most retirees have paid off their mortgages, whereas a lot of Grrmans still have rents to find.
And here i am thinking i wil earn lot of money after i complete M.Tech(Mechanical) in Germany. Haha Good video man
Uh, oh we’ve heard this before
Wait, Rolf Maurer is literally a Maurer?