02-01-2016, 11:45 AM
Quote:It isn't like the middle class could not have swallowed the pride that got Germany into dire straits in the first place and gone to work industrial jobs like the poor.....
You, me, Rollo, Sick, Steel or Dave- we all live in countries where that is perfectly acceptable, Germany is different. Still today, apprenticeships are quite normal with your basic core education ending years earlier and you moving on to start working on a very specialized set of skills that you will use for your adult life. It isn't as rigid as say the caste system of India, but this was also flirting with a century ago. The German economy has never been good at being fluid(which all of the nations we inhabit on this board are actually quite good at). There is a very real chance that they wouldn't have been considered worth hiring for blue collar jobs. I employ a lot of blue collar workers, in all honesty if someone applies to work for me from a white collar background unless they served in the military I will rarely hire them. So many different factors at play, but pretty much white collar workers aren't as 'tough' as those who have always been blue collar(not just on a physical basis, dealing with the manner of language used, interactions with other people, working side by side with violent felons etc).
Sick- missed your post last time- Actually the Republicans in the US have always taxed the rich more then the poor, they tax corporations even more then that. You probably get a very slanted view by watching the media at large, there is actually *VERY* little difference between the two political parties on overall economic policy. They scream at each other 'extremist' over fractions of a percent one way or the other.