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Just for everyone who doesn’t know. Merz is negatively qualified (career-wise) and somewhat of an idiot.
Just for everyone who doesn’t know. Merz is negatively qualified (career-wise) and
somewhat ofan idiot.Fixed that for you
Fair. I am not german and want to keep my statements about other countries politics as fool-proof as possible though.
Just shut the fuck up!
Politicians: “we need to make this problem worse”
Society’s ultimate purpose should be to make our lives better, not to enrich share holders. Merz, and conservatives at large, work against society’s best interests. Don’t let them get or keep power, they are a plight.
lets drop the “should be” and go with is instead. You are very much correct that those people work against everyones interests but their own and their owners.
So we all need to work 14 hours a day to find the rich?
Fuck that shit, fuck the rich, I want wealth caps. Nobody should be able to have a networth of over 1 million dollars, anything income beyond that should go to taxes. Everyone can now be the same
So you want your country deciding how to spend that money? 🤣
Why yes, I would very much prefer a democratically legitimized government to decide on how to use the wealth we generate instead of who’s doing it today: A neo-feudalist class of hereditary billionaires who rule like absolutist monarchs.
So you like for example the president of usa to decide those money? He is democratically elected and his goverment is legitimized
Highly debatable, but let’s assume he is for the sake of the argument.
The thing is, if people like Thiel, Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg didn’t have the fortunes (and media power) they have, people like Trump would not be elected. This excessive wealth is actively harming democracy, and Trump is actually the prime example of why these billionaires must be taxed into nonexistence.
But yes, if I had to choose between a rock and a hard place, I would pick the bad elected president to control federal funds until the next election over the bad billionaire to just own this fortune until he dies.
Rich parasite who hasn’t done any actual work in his whole life demands people work more for his and his leech friends’ wealth.
Fuck him.
Short reminder that Merz had a 2-day work week during his time as chairman of the board at BlackRock Germany and got paid about half a million a year (150k base salary + bonuses) not to know or to decide anything but to facilitate political connections.
His famed “economy expertise” consists of lobbying work and board positions he only got to use his political influence (read: de facto corruption)
I guess he is talking about how greece has a upper class that don’t pay taxes and forces everyone else to work hard for basic needs.
I thought that’s just capitalism 101?!
More like lords and surfs. Its bluntly written in to their laws.
And while you’re at it, have more children.
And stop going to the doctor when you’re sick. That’s not what the taxes are for.
Bad argument. German’s public health is not tax funded. Merz seems to be more like “Don’t take sick leave! When you feel sick, you’re just lazy.”
Beiträge zur gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung sind de facto Steuern. Ich muss sie zahlen und bemessen sich an meinen Einnahmen.
Healthcare fees are not taxes, as they are committed to a specific purpose. They’re also not paid to the government.
While social spending gets cut even more. I mean sure the social state did nothing to harm the struggling economy but… look, it‘s just getting cut, ok?!
Okay so this is how you bait communists takes notes
During a visit by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Berlin last year, Merz praised labor market deregulation in Athens that allowed a six-day workweek. He said Germans who consider a 40-hour week unreasonable should “take a look at Greece,” adding that Germany could learn from the country in this area. He acknowledged, however, that German labor productivity remains much higher.
Same shit different day, so here’s what I said the last time this brainrot hit the news:
Someone does not understand what productivity means and how it’s meaningfully improved.
If you (you being the proverbial CDU brain here) need people to marginally increase their working hours, in order to achieve higher economic output, you’re in deep trouble. The increased output is also marginal and a one time boost. If you want meaningfully higher economic output, with sustained growth, you have to use machines and automation to achieve more with the same work hours. In other words you gotta do productive capital investment. Unfortunately conservative brains can only think of the cheapest solution (for businesses) first, at the expense of workers quality and quantity of life.
I already do way over 40 hours, I’m just not getting paid for all of it, so this changes nothing except my motivation to do overtime.
Maybe he could start with himself? Stop whining about others and do something productive for the first time in his life?
Halt die Fresse Merz
I would like to say, how the tables have turned. But I would wish for any country to have the fate of Greece after the GFC. Whatever the headlines and the numbers may say, Greeks havent recovered financially since 2008.
Working conditions are completely shit, the lowest collective bargaining, worst housing crisis in EU, 6 days weeks, 13 hours of work per day, pension at 67, highest tax burden in the EU, 2and to last in PPP and many more.
I can’t understand why would anyone take Greece as an example to adapt fir their workers
Well all of this is pretty good for larger business owners. Merz is a rich pro-business guy. They take a part of every hour worked by workers in their firms, or firms they invest directly/indirectly in, more hours worked - more profit collected. So they’d directly benefit from Greece-like working conditions.
Easy: they’re looking at who those workers work for.
Those folks are having a grand old time.
The man owes his entire career to cronyism with the business world, especially his close ties to US corporations. Since he is much more of a US business lobbyist than a politician, his neo-capitalist drivel is self-explanatory.
Friedrich Merz (born November 11, 1955, in Brilon), the tenth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany since May 6, 2025, has been the federal chairman of the CDU since 2022. A former business lawyer and long-time top lobbyist, he has held leading positions in a number of companies and business-related interest groups and networks. [1] Until the end of 2021, Merz was vice president of the CDU’s business lobby group, the Economic Council, and a guest member of the presidium of the Small and Medium-Sized Business and Economic Union (MIT). In 2022, the MIT welcomed Merz’s election as CDU chairman and stated that he was the first chairman to be a member of the MIT.[4] Armin Peter, most recently deputy press spokesman for the Economic Council and press spokesman for the then Economic Council Vice President Merz, has been deputy spokesman for the CDU and personal press spokesman for Merz since February 2022.[5] [6] Merz continues to be a member of the following organizations: Founding member of the New York section of the CDU Economic Council,[7] lobby organization Society for the Study of Structural Policy Issues,[8] Ludwig Erhard Foundation network, which brings together lobbyists and top politicians. Merz worked as senior counsel for the law firm Mayer Brown LLP until the end of 2021; prior to that, he was a partner for nine years.[9] During his time at Mayer Brown, he advised clients on corporate law, M&A transactions, compliance, and banking and finance law. According to research by CORRECTIV, he represented BASF as a lawyer on several occasions in 2010 and 2011. [10] He was a member of the board of directors at BASF Antwerp for almost a decade, where he headed the “Paints & Pigments” division of the BASF Group. From 2009 to 2019, Merz was chairman of Atlantik-Brücke [11] and from 2016 to 2020, he was chairman of the supervisory board of the German branch of asset manager BlackRock, for which he mediated relationships with important clients, authorities, and government agencies in Germany. [12] He was active in the Market Economy Foundation as a member of the Political Advisory Board of the Tax Code Commission. [13] In connection with his candidacy for the CDU party chairmanship, Merz ended his role as chairman of the supervisory board of Blackrock at the end of the first quarter of 2020.[14][15] At the 2021 CDU party conference, he lost a digital runoff election to his rival Armin Laschet. At the party conference on January 22, 2022, he was elected chairman of the CDU with 94.62% of the delegates’ votes. [16] On September 23, 2024, Merz was officially nominated as the CDU and CSU’s candidate for chancellor in the next federal election. [17]
Translated from German | Source with references
