Robert Bosch once said: „Ich zahle nicht gute Löhne, weil ich viel Geld habe, sondern ich habe viel Geld, weil ich gute Löhne bezahle. it means: i don't pay high salaries because i have much money. i have much money because i pay high salaries.
It’s kind of sad, that this truth is not treated that well all nowadays at every company. I mean we have bad jobs with very little salaries and bad circumstances in general. Sadly enough that our nurses or care keeper of elderly people aren’t payed good for there work.
@@juwen7908 easy: at the moment they are easily controlled with being not educated very well and just believe what they are told. Just imagine what would happen if they were taught about politics or how it really is in other countries!
Little anecdote: Ludwig Erhard, the guy who invented the Social Market Economy, had Gotten the Order of establishing a Free Market Economy like in the US. Before Western Germany was formed, Erhard was already the Economic Minister of the American occupation Zone. Instead of just doing what he was said to do, he sat with a Team of renowned economists and created the idea of the Social Market Economy, which was basically this: "We should use the Benefits of a Capitalistic Economy and use its power to garantee social security to the entire population, while providing safety measures for vulnerable parts of our society." So he implemented this new system instead. His American boss was furious, to say the least... But it worked, and it still does work. And maybe, just maybe, American workers today are flabbergasted by our working conditions in Germany. You call it Benefits, we call it rights. Socialism itself doesnt always have to be evil. You just need to know how to use it.
Yeah and didn´t he implement the first laws on a 4th of July so the Americans weren´t at work to monitor the Implementation of the law? I read that somewhere, could also be complete rubbish.
That's not entirely true. The "social" aspect came later. The term "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" was a propaganda term by the CDU. "Entstehung Alfred Müller-Armack wählte diese Wortverbindung erstmals 1946 in seinem Werk Wirtschaftslenkung und Marktwirtschaft, das 1947 veröffentlicht wurde.[16] Er entwarf die Soziale Marktwirtschaft als „dritte Form“ neben rein liberaler Marktwirtschaft und staatlicher Wirtschaftslenkung. Für die Wirtschaftsordnung des vom Krieg zerstörten Deutschlands solle der Markt als „tragendes Gerüst“ in „eine bewusst gesteuerte, und zwar sozial gesteuerte Marktwirtschaft“ eingebettet sein.[17] Den Versuch, „das Prinzip der Freiheit auf dem Markte mit dem des sozialen Ausgleichs zu verbinden“, bezeichnete Müller-Armack als „irenische Formel“.[18] Etwa zur gleichen Zeit verwendete der sozialdemokratische Ordoliberale Leonhard Miksch, der seit Anfang 1948 als Leiter des Referats für „Preiswirtschaftliche Grundsatzfragen und Betriebswirtschaft“ enger Mitarbeiter Erhards war, den Begriff soziale Marktwirtschaft lange vor Erhard.[19] Eine öffentliche Verwendung des Begriffs ist laut Uwe Fuhrmann jedoch nicht vor Juni 1948 belegt.[20] Verbreitung durch die CDU Zunächst wurde der Ausdruck kaum verwendet.[21][22] Die CDU beschloss am 3. Februar 1947 das Ahlener Programm; in diesem wurde der Kapitalismus abgelehnt. Erst durch das CDU-Programm für die Bundestagswahl am 14. August 1949 - die Düsseldorfer Leitsätze - wurde der Begriff einer größeren Öffentlichkeit bekannt.[21] Das neue wirtschaftspolitische Schlagwort „Soziale Marktwirtschaft“, von der CDU als Gegenbegriff zu „unsoziale Planwirtschaft“ gesetzt, war anfangs umstritten.[23] Von sozialdemokratischer und gewerkschaftlicher Seite, zum Teil aber auch vom Arbeitnehmer-Flügel der CDU, wurde die Wortverbindung als Euphemismus und als rein propagandistisches Schlagwort kritisiert. Von unternehmerischer und wirtschaftsliberaler Seite wurde befürchtet, das Attribut „sozial“ würde Erwartungen wecken, die dem wirtschaftlichen Fortschritt oder der deutschen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit entgegenstünden.[22][23] Ludwig Erhard wurde nach der Bundestagswahl 1949 Wirtschaftsminister im Kabinett Adenauer I."
Solche Eingriffe und Regulierungen wie bei uns durch das soziale Netz wirst du in den Staaten niemals erleben. Daher auch das Entsetzen des Vorgesetzten Erhards.
It also didn't come from nowhere. There was a long tradition of fighting for workers rights beforehand, and somehow the workers always had allies in high positions so to speak.
What Erhard did was just to transfer what already existed to an organisation. As before Erhard it was 'Capital is for the people not the people are for the capital'. During that time the success was set not by that Erhard. He was just another Trittbrettfahrer.
It is a tradition in Germany to treat workers well. People like Robert Bosch and others established that already at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th century. If the workers are well, the company goes well.
I am an employer in Germany and yes, in anticipation of the higher inflatio I rised the wages without being asked for and paid two energy price compensation bonusses. I think this is the duty for an responsible employer and it benefits the company already.
@@TheDoctorIWho I get that, but I think that in the States the shareholder´s pressure on the company is usually bigger. More companies are public, and it is pretty easy to get fresh money at the stock market in the US. But that also increases the shareholder´s influence with no counterweight (or at least mostly not) by a union or else. And shareholders usually don´t like high cost for wages. That is, for the last ~20 years or so, when wages usually were the highest cost for a company. In the next few years, I think wages won´t be that important, energy cost will be the deciding factor.
@@leoh3616 That's stupid. In a world where the developed countries do not produce things anymore but have only R&D and Services the employes are the capital of the companies.
Also have to understand, Unions in Germany and Unions in USA is also very different. I´m not saying one is good, and one is bad, what i´m saying is that there golds and method is widely different.
No Social Market System doesn't mean socialism. This means, companies are responsible for their workers and society for its citizens. Practically this means, we have a solidary system. We as society share the costs of everything, just in case somethings going wrong and you get sick, can't work any more or whatever could go wrong. And sidenote: Tesla broke a hell lot of laws in Germany, but didn't care about at all. The price they pay for that, their workers are leaving and going back to their former jobs, because they realize what a bad company Tesla really is. My bet would be, Tesla wouldn't make it in Germany as Walmart failed in the past. If you want do buisiness in Germany, you shouldn't be ignorant and self centered.
Agreed. Musk is such a self-centered narcissist that he believes himself to be able to effectively buy anything he wants, including circumventing national laws. Like Walmart he fell flat on his face.
@@ulliulli why are you so rude? He might be wrong; explain to him, where he is wrong ... in your eyes. It is so bad: You understood the video in a different way than he did. Isn't it his right?Or do you understand everything immediately?
I find it funny that people go out of their way to point out that socialist policies are not socialism. Even while using the word solidarity to explain the policy It's pretty amazing how cognitively dissonant that is to be honest
Also, in Germany (and many other European countries) all shops and businesses (except restaurants, petrol stations and the like) are closed on Sundays. The realization that after hard work you should also have a good rest is firmly anchored in almost all of Europe.
I would say this is mostly a German thing, or possible the closest countries. That is not really the case in most of Europe. The total everything is close on Sundays is really mostly Germany. While Denmark also have very limited opening time at Sundays. But go a bit more away like Sweden or UK, Sundays are generally similar to Saturdays with typically 2 hours less open. In Germany downtown looks like in a apocalypse movie on Sundays
nope that is absolutely not the reason shops are closed on sundays.... germany is officially a christian state and theres no seperation between church and state... the shops closed on sundays is because yada yada weird dude in bible rested there after he made the earth
@@LoFiAxolotl That's how the Sunday rest came about, that's right. However, it later became a day of rest, independent of the church. Article 140 of the Grundgesetz: "Sunday and state-recognized holidays remain legally protected as days of rest and spiritual uplift." That means Sunday is just as protected as (for example) the Day of German Unity as a public holiday.
@@LoFiAxolotl Thats wrong, Germany is not a christian state and there is a clear seperation between church and state. Germany is secular, meaning all Religions are allowed to be practiced and none are favored. This has been the case since the Weimarer Verfassung in 1919. THe Sunday to rest is based on christian religion for sure, but the rest is false.
I have lived in Germany for a long time now and the German language is not hard to learn and after awhile it gets easy to pronounce the words correctly. I have tried to explain the way things work here in Germany to some of my sissters and brothers and they just do not want to hear that a different country could be doing thins better then America. The worst is trying to get them to understand the health care system here. It seems as tho they put on blinders and turn off their hearing aids.
@@i_like_dinnos2847 i just meant that as a joke regarding the comment about not willing to think another country could do something better than america - wasnt referring to your comment specifially, sorry :)
I moved from the states to Germany went to college (free) and learned the cabinetmaker trade through a 3 year training, the formal name for this training is called Ausbildung. 2 days of school 3 days of work. Going to special workshops for weeks at a time and learning everything from the ground up. Not only do you get paid a little for your training but you also get your health insurance premiums paid, and your payments into the retirement system. If your married your spouse get the health insurance benefits too. Whereas going to school you don't pay into retirement nor do you get health insurance. You have to pay that yourself. So Ausbildung is an attractive offer for young people, who don't have the highest grades in school or for those looking for a secure workplace. The contracts are basically set in stone. If both parties follow the agreement then there's no possibility to get fired or lose your job.
Fun Fact: If your Employer wants to fire you and you have a Trade Union in the Company, he has to file the case to them to discuss wether the termination is appropriate /correct or not, depending on your personal Situation like Age, Childs, social Situation or known Disabilities. You will never be called on an evening with your boss saying: You´r fired^^
One thing about the educational system didn’t get mentioned. In order to have apprentices there has to be a “ Meister” in the business. This Master has to go through official tests and additional training in order to obtain this title. That’s the way to make sure that the quality level of training is more or less equal.
Honestly I just love this content. As a german many things we do here is just normal to me and getting an outside opinion on our ways is realy cool! Keep doing your thing.
My grandson got an apprentiship at 15 when he left high school. He is now 19 and in a well paid job at the firm he trained in. He,s more than happy about it.
10:30 When it comes to the PISA study you have to bear in mind that secondary education in Germany employs streaming: According to your aptitude you finish either aged 15, 16 or 18. The German PISA score of 500 is an average of all three. If you finish aged 18 with your Abitur (Baccalaureate) the PISA score is 600. In comparison China which is ranked No1 achieves 591 and the USA ranked 38th only 478 (I used the Maths scores). US universities know the value of the German Abitur and with it they will award you a Bachelor Degree in half the time ie 2 years instead of 4.
in addition, we where told we can go home after we finished the pisa test, which didnt influence our marks. so suprisingly everyone left after ten minutes...
@@iZeb0x exactly. We had to take the the Pisa test right in the middle of our regular tests in 9th grade, which were way more important to us. You didn't get a grade on the Pisa study, so there was literally no incentive to give your best at it. And I'm sure everyone can imagine how psyched we were about taking yet another test which wasn't even relevant for our Grades. If anything the Pisa study just shows which country has the most commited and competitive students, in my opinion.
The training system doesn't apply just to labor work companies. I am working in accounting and I did a 3 years training in an office when I was 17. There, I learned all about accounting, controlling, marketing etc. At the end we were so well trained that we could choose which department we wanna work in at the end. I decided to stay in accounting and already was ready to work without much further help. I earned about 700 - 900 Euros a month during my training, each year getting paid higher. This helped me to save money. With my work experience in this field, there is no difference between me with "just" a training and someone with a college degree. Though, I have more work experience.
Most bank clerks, insurance clerks, retail sales clerks, etc. learn their profession through the training system and not through an economics degree. However, companies often help if you want to study related to your job after your apprenticeship. Some companies also offer in-house courses. Commercial professions in particular now often offer dual (university) studies: vocational training + studies instead of vocational school = training certificate + bachelor’s degree.
"is this why it took so long to build their factory" .... dude they already skipped a lot of steps thanks to the politicians basically giving the OK for everything.
The problem with Americans is that they are taught to Win, to be the Best... creating a culture where people prefer to fight for their point of views and opinions rather then talk it out, avoid conflict and compromise where possible like in most of the rest of the world.
It's a dog eat dog society. I can't think of a better lesson to learn if I was growing up in the US. It's important to win. Or else you are f*cked. On a generational level.
@@matthiasewert3587 Yes, we are the best at killing when we chose to employ our lethality. The US is the only civilization in world history that has the power to take over the world, yet chooses not to.
I once bought a machine, not me personally, from a German company. When I was at the point of leaving their office, the director, owner came to us and asked his technician. That machine we sold, is that all right, well build? You know it has my name on it and don't make me ashamed. So he did not ask: did we make money on it. But did we deliver quality, what we promised to do. I bought loads of German machines and that is their point of view: quality comes first. That's why we did not buy any American. And that is a fact.
Nope, ordo-liberalism or social market economy is definitely not socialism. I always throw out that sexy and sexist are not the same either even though they look so similar. There are quite a few more factors that play into Germany's strong position. Trade and craft skills are not considered low skill or low paying jobs. Many people with these skills have similar or even higher wages than other employees. Only higher management jobs will pay more.
social market economy is per definition part of the spectrum of socialist theories. socialism is not automaticly Marxism-Leninism like in the USSR or GDR. the german healthcare and education systems are also socialism, but not communist Socialism is not automaticly communism. just like sexy does not mean sexist
@@zhufortheimpaler4041 But in germany they differentiate between social market economy and socialism. socialism means that the workers own the factories and that is not the fact in germany
Keep your Big PaperHouse, you Straight On Cars with Big Machines, you cant even Use. Keep all the stuff, nobody needs. America stays for: With the money, we do not have, we bought things, nobody even need, to impress people, nobody like. Thats the american way of „life“. A useless life, nobody on the planet needs. No where on the planet, not in russia, not in the ucraine, not in any country in africa, so much people ask me about money, than in the states. 10 times a stayed there for work. L.a., Frisco, atlanta, vegas, chicago and some smaller towns around. Ill people, with no health system, with no social mindset. Districts of empty houses and people live in tents in streets of town. No state money for education, but for the biggest military on the planet. You will find more things, write for weeks here. Between mexico and canada, is nothing, anyone of the world want to get. Just a lot of stupid and asocial people, they do not know, anything from the world.
To my mind the big advantadge of the german system is, as mentioned in your video, the combination of apprenticeship in the company as well as several hours in a proffessional school. In the company your learn practical things (but not only in theory, but in real work for the company) and in school you learn more general stuff and things your company isn't able to teach you. The effekt is that you can start immediatelly a job in a company because you know the circumstances. Furthermore you got a very good knowledge which makes it possible to join another company without bigger adjustment problems.
You could be working in a field where the trade unions do not apply. So there is a 'trade union light' system in place called Betriebsrat (workers council), which you also can have even though your workplace is covered by a union. Once your workplace has 5 fulltime employees of which 3 are working there for at least half a year, you can elect a workers council. The employer must not interfere with it and you even have protection by law from being fired for a certain time, even if your 4 other colleagues decide agains setting up a workers council.
the vocational training is especially important to handicrafts, builders, and trades. in many of those areas you are not allowed to work without an examination, for example you need to be an electrician to be allowed to install the cabling in a house. in a way this mays seem as a relict of the medieval (and in fact it comes from that time), but is ensures quality.
"Thank you for watching. That was super interesting" - Yes, I agree. I'm german and didn't know those details ;-) Thx for your vids. Most of them let me experience my country way more positive than I'm used to it. 😂
Though this video gives a comprehensive overview over the German economy, it's only a glance and far away from being all encompassing. The foundation of it is Basic Law (our constitution) Art 14. [Property - Inheritance - Expropriation] (1) Property and the right of inheritance shall be guaranteed. Their content and limits shall be defined by the laws. (2) Property entails obligations. Its use shall also serve the public good. (3) Expropriation shall only be permissible for the public good. It may only be ordered by or pursuant to a law that determines the nature and extent of compensation. Such compensation shall be determined by establishing an equitable balance between the public interest and the interests of those affected. In case of dispute concerning the amount of compensation, recourse may be had to the ordinary courts. The philosophy behind "Social Market Economy" is: As few state interventions into the markets as possible (i.e. capitalism) and as much intervention as necessary (i.e. socialism) to have balanced markets where no participant is in a stronger position than other participants. For e.g. the US labor market is skewed in favor of companies. Companies can hire and fire "at will", so employees will rather not use their rights to not lose their jobs and benefits (e.g. working unpaid overtime, aborting a vacation, etc.). In Germany, the labor laws guarantee certain rights and companies not adhering to them risk lawsuits and fines (CEOs and other executives risk personal fines and jail time). Trade unions are seen as an integral part of the labor market as they strengthen the workers' leverage. Trade unions and the companies of a certain industry (e.g. chemical) negotiate salaries and benefits for a certain period of time (e.g. two years) and for all companies of a certain industry and all workers in that industry (regardless if they're union members or not). Having trade union members as members of the board leads to understanding and cooperation (the company can only be well if the workers are well and vice versa) instead of confrontation. Another example is the housing market with more than 60% of the population living in rented accommodation. German landlords are seen as the (economically) stronger participant in the housing market. Therefore tenants have lots of rights that protect them from eviction (I know bc I'm renting out apartments). Even when tenants can't (or won't) pay their rent, you first have to sue them for eviction (which takes several months) before you can evict them. But if there's no housing available in the same city or county they might be evicted into the apartment with the council paying the rent (but not what they're already due). Vocational training or apprenticeship is the backbone of German craftsmanship. They guarantee a minimum of skills so every employer can trust that the person in front of them is able to do the job they're to be hired for. Companies invest in the education of their workforce, so they have a pool of skilled workers to pick from. SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises, that often are family-owned, highly specialized, and often world leaders in their field) are the backbone of the German industry. They have more employees than the big players. They rather retain employees than firing and rehiring them (bc rehiring is not guaranteed and training a new workforce is expensive). And then there are regulations which help. In case of order shortages (e.g. due to CoVid), companies can reduce hours at will and only pay workers for their actual hours - and the Labor Agency pays the employees the other hours (not fully, but a high percentage of their net earnings). This brings a benefit to all involved parties. Employers only pay the equivalent of actual working hours and keep their skilled and often times highly specialized staff, when orders are starting to come in they can immediately ramp up production. Employees keep their job with only minimal financial losses. The Labor Agency pays a lot less than it would have paid when the workers were fired. Win-win-win situation.
The PISA studies, for reasons others have already mentioned here, have to indeed be taken with a grain of salt. But the cultural differences in the reactions to them are interesting. Several years ago, when one of those studies was published, I happened to watch both German and French public television news as well as American tv news (as I live in the US). France that year ended up in approximately, I don't remember the exact numbers, 11th place, Germany in 13th and the US in 28th. The reaction on French tv was 'Well, we could do a bit better, but we're in a solid middle spot, that's not so bad'. In Germany, the reaction was 'Oh my, only 13th? We have to completely reorganize our educational system.' In the US? No reaction at all, in fact, no mention of the study anywhere on the tv news....
The training in companies combiened with school is common in all professions, nurses, cashier, waitress electrician and so on. After 2 to 3 and a half years payd trainining an school you make your exam then you enter the workforce or go back to school for a higher education
I studied Microelectronics Engineering in Germany and in one Lecture we learned how the accelerometer from Bosch works and is produced. It is cool to see this technology, which i had to discribe in my exam, is named in an youtube video about my country 🤓😇 I like german cars, engineering and of course american consumer electronics ❤ Greetings from the Krauts 😊
4:49 Ludwig Erhard was the expert in economic matters. He became famous as a minister, but failed as chancellor. Three Bonn years. (Bonn = W.-Germanys Capital, 1949-1991)
@@rainerzufall42 Well,I won't for sure.I lived in Bosnia(as a little child),Spain,France,and now I live in Germany.It wouldn't be a problem for me to move on.The West has lost it's compass,they've done some incredibly idiotic things.I like it here in Baden-Württemberg,but if I decide to move on,Buenos Aires is waiting for me. 🙂 Of course,I hope that all of my Germans will be ok.
Little fun fact: Siemens is a gigantic powerhouse in electric products and also movement (Siemens Mobility). They have built the ES64U2 and ES64U4, better known as Taurus, which is used all throughout Austria and the ÖBB, powering the "Railjet" and short distance trains alike. They also built the Siemens Velaro, a train that is used for the ICE 3, the new Eurostar E320 / BR Class 374, the spanish RENFE Model 103 and even the turkish high speed train TCDD HT80000. This subdevision alone makes 9 billion €s a year. Pay attention that Simon only said "Students". Not every education in Germany is done that way. I left Realschule at 16 years, then had 1 year of "Berufsvorbereitung" which was wasted time cause they didn't take it that seriously (the place doesn't exist anymore, it was "bombed" to hell by the Agentur für Arbeit xD). After that I chose to make a traineeship as a salesman in e-commerce at the BBW Abensberg. I have Autism, and I went there full time, going to my traineeship during the day and sleeping at the campus over night. I finished last month, passed my final and verbal exam. Sadly since then nothing positive has happened. I had over 30 appliances at local companies and they all rejected me. I now have no work, and am back home now. It sucks. Thanks to Covid, our graduation party was also cancelled (yaaaaaaaaaaaaay) If the Agentur für Arbeit isn't fast enough with providing Arbeitslosengeld 1, I will be financially broke at the end of the month. Great things to look out for.
A far as vocational training is concerned: the chamber of commerce and the chamber of crafts are working in tandem with the ministries of education, establishing a curriculum for each profession, which fits the requirements of businesses. The trade schools are the responsibility of the federal states, and attendance is mostly compulsory. The training employers are obliged to follow the established curriculum. In the end graduates have a broad knowledge of their profession and are thus more independent and flexible, as well as have gained a word wide recognized certificate. Mercedes and BMW have established a comparable system with local colleges in America. As a craftsman or -woman, one also has the opportunity to seek a master craftsman's certificate, which would qualifiy for management positions, taking responsibility for the vocational trainings, as well as giving one the approbiate skills (e. g. business economics and accounting) to establish your own company. Some craftsmanships even demand a master craftsman's certificate in order to establish a company. Furthermore, the vocational and academic education is interlocked. As a graduate of a vocational training, you might enroll in university of applied science (German Fachhochschule), though it depents on the federal state and/or subject of study.
5:10 "Is that pretty much just socialism?" Every American: Socialism is when the government does stuff. And if the government does even more stuff its communism. ;D
Often I do not understand the (sorry) dumb american view of socialismn (If I have to pay for something that I do not need now). On the other side their are proud of their "Hero" Firefighters (Do firefighters only work for people that paid them beforehand? - If your house burns do they come and say "Your credit card please - fighting the fire will cost you $10.000 here is the contract" or do you pay them from your taxes (even if your house is not burning at the moment)? - So for the US understanding of social = socialismn = communismn firfighters are satanic devilish communists. Same with Police and the US-Airforce, Army and Navy and with so much communistic stuff the US must be communistic (Army protects every American and not only the americans who have a Army contract for protection how dare communistic is this).
A funny thing is, when they were looking for a name for the new European currency, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl pushed through the name Euro because the other name suggestions sounded too much like soft currencies to him.
I can highly recommend the visualpolitik channel. Well researched reports from all parts of the world. Why am I watching your videos? It allows me to see my country through someone else's eyes, through a person who is humble but seems to be very open to the world
If you’re interested in chipmakers and such you might look at the only company that builds the machines that chipmakers use: ASML. 🤔 (not German but Dutch still thought might be of use)
FKK is short for 'Freikörperkultur', which means 'free body culture', if you translate literally. If you translate analogously, 'free' means 'naked' in FKK. I Like the videos! You found out a lot of things I didn't even know. And I've lived in Germany my whole life... :D
in germany, PISA studies is kinda treated like a joke. where other countries specifically prepare for it and have their students do their best, in germany you just take the test and don't really care about the results. PISA studies is not something i would treat seriously.
I think it`s good that Germanyhas such a good training system for every job you do 3-5 years of training for every job where you have to do, practical work and go to school twice a week in a class that is specifically related to you training such inthe office,as an electrian,hairdresser etc. halfway through the training you have to do an intermediate test for which you get written grade and practilly at the end of the training you have to take another written and practical test for which you also get a grade again,you have your passed you get a training certificated certificate that you have passed the exam so you can then apply to different employers because you are now qualified.🙂
@@juwen7908 Yes i also can`t understand why only Germany has such a good training system i think if there were something like that in other european countries then youth unemployment wouldn`t be as high as in italy or france for example which is really a shame.
When I was studying German we went over their educational system. There are 3 kinds of "high school" Gymnasium which is like college prep school, Gesamtschule which is similar to American high school - little bit of everything and Beruftschule which is like a trade school/work study thing. Students are encouraged to pick a educational track around 5th grade.
You got that mixed up a little bit. There are three forms of consecutive school education after elementary school, which are Gymnasium, which offers preparation for university studies, and Realschule and Mittelschule which qualify students for apprenticeships but give different degrees to students (Realschule is ranked higher than Mittelschule). A Gesamtschule combines these three forms in one school. Berufsschule is what you attend to when doing an apprenticeship. While you learn to practical skills at work at your company, Berufsschule offers the additional "theoretical" training, like e.g. calculations, laws, etc.
In the tiny little village i was born in we have a tiny little company. It literally consisted of the boss, a secretary, two metal working masters and a handful of apprentices on a single manufacturing floor only slightly bigger than your average living room. They produce only a single product which is high precision lifting benches. But we are talking nano meter precision here. This kind of precision might seem overkill at first but it's absolutly crucial for, among other things, high end chip manufacturing. And this tiny little company is the world leader in their field. You can pretty much assume that every single chip manifacturer as well as many labs world wide at some point has done business with them.
Its how the building trades work in America as well (plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc.) . You start off as an apprentice, get paid to work and go to class. Then after working for so long you take a journeymen test. Once you pass that you get the full wages and benefits. If you want to start a company and be a contractor you take a Master test to be a master of your trade.
And yeah, Musk running face-first into german trade union laws and having a spat with teh uniosn adn the govenrment was a huge factor in why Tesla has had such a rcoky start in Germany. It's also part of the reason why Walmart just completely flopped their attempt to operate in Germany.
@@patverum9051 no man. First of all, the victors write history. They never gonna blame themselves. Second of all, once you're prosperous you have absolutely no interest in destroying it by initiating a war. Meanwhile England had a huge navy and a bad economy. France hated Germany for a long time, see Napoleonic wars. Germany was involved in the least of the wars in the past millenia, let alone starting them. If you would be familiar with the german mentality, you'd know that they are peace loving people (generally). But if you Bully someone long enough, why would you wonder if they slap you back? Also never underestimate acts coming out of jealousy.
Famous quote of Robert Bosch, that explains a lot: I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
3:04 You can not invest in Bosch. Robert Bosch GmbH (the corporation which owns Bosch Sensortech) is wholly owned by a non-profit charitable foundation. Btw Bosch is the world's largest automotive supplier, the second largest is ZF (if your car has a gearbox it is more likely a ZF box than not). ZF too is wholly owned by a non-profit charitable foundation. Instead of going to shareholders profits from both go to good causes.
There are two more things to say. There is the model for a corporate as a "cooperation". There are some companies that work like that. Famous is mondragon in spain. One of the bigger corps. The workers usually own part of the corp. The workers elect their managers also the CEO. Who has max 8 times the salary of the lowest payed worker. Works well for them. Second. Besides the unions germany has a "Betriebsverfassungsgesetz", a law that encourages workers in companies from more than 5 full time jobs to elect a representative who talks to the company owner or board about problems or personnel things. That guy cannot be fired for the 4 years it takes and 2 years after. In bigger companies the elected guy(s) are doing this full time. They are often in a union but do not need to be in one. Sometimes it give problems but more often the management gets good info about possible improvements from the company floor.
13:44 That is the annual meeting of Siemens shareholders before Covid, in a big concert hall in Munich. Now it is all online, which is a shame, it always was really interesting to be there. I worked for Siemens a long time, and Siemens gave their employees shares for half the price, so we are interested in a profit-making company. Now that I am retired I still have money from the company, a monthly pension and an annual part of the profits. So I am connected to the company my whole life. The exact opposite of the hire-and-fire-shame of the US.
12:40 I my case I did go to a job after highschool and I was fully trained in the time my peers where just starting university/college. But I wanted to go on so I went 1 year to prep school and was able to go to any university like my peers a year earlyer but I was limited to a technical university because I had a technical job. As I was through university of applied sciences (Fachhochschule) I was 1 year behind but I had 3 years job experience.
When you said that Tesla's Gigafactory took a long time to build, I almost laughed. We are so used to all kinds of bureaucratic and company process prolonging these kinds of projects that for me the moment of completion of the Gigafactory arrived very quickly XD
"this is why it took so long for tesla...". The Tesla factory build is well known for being crazy fast here in germany. But that is because of another regulation called "duty of care". Tesla needed to prove a diversity of stuff before they could even start to build. no harm for the environment etc.
In my opinion, the coolest aspect of the german economy are 'tiny leaders': Small companies and factories that are so specialized and good in their fields that they become world-leaders in their branch. E.g. my birthtown both had a company that supplies the external lighting solutions for a ton of famous sightseeing spots (like the Brandenburg Gate or even the Burj Al Arab) and got a relatively well known toy/model car factory, that exported across europe as well! Also, the vocational training system goes to some crazy lengths in germany, as even the german equivalent of the FBI offers vocational training!
This is a German system, work/education that ensures the company of a next generation well trained/educated workforce. The reall "money"..wealth of the company is in the quality and the health of the workers/ employers. There has to be an agreement between different parties ; the employer(Volkswagen, Bosch, etc.) the government and the workers. The work/life ballance, affordable healthcare, education, workers-rights for good wages, hollidays, sick leave etc everything is well organised, and regulated by law. This system is not build on GREED for one, but build on prosperity for ALL. I bet that if there would be ONE state in the US, that would be able to model it's economic system to the German model, completely free and independend from the "greedy, all for me"..mentality that is now in place in Washington-politics, this state will do well within no time, the people living there would live well and prosper. Please restrain yourself in cynical and hatefull comments. This is in no way a US bashing-writing from my part, but merely an insite of how things are able to change. This comment is also not there to say that everything in Germany or Europe is better than in the US. The only reason , is concern from my part, about the downward spiral the US is in right now.!!
Hey, German writing here. I like your videos but I've got one question: Is it just you and some other people's or a general American thing that you think about socialism as soon as someone speaks about anything 'social' in a political context? Please get into the topic socialism and history before judging a system which ist based on a capitalistic economy with some social nets as socialistic. Thx and good luck with ur channel
The reason why Germany always does so poorly in university rankings is that Anglo-American universities make the rules for these rankings and only use their own academic system as basis, although the system of other European countries differs. E.g,: The traditional German universities are all state universities. Studying there is free. BUT , this is not a criterion at all for the rankings. WHY? Because anglo-american elite universities charge exorbitant fees.
Because German universities are state-run, they don't have to generate any money themselves or hoard assets. However, university assets are a criterion for the ranking. WHICH are the richest universities in the world? The Ivy League and Oxbridge.
Most scientific publishers in Germany are private and did publish mostly in German until the Millenium, and therefore German scientists writing in German got rarely quoted in English-language publications. However, all citations and publications since 1950 are included in the ranking and not just since the millennium when the French and Germans also began to publish in English. The French, Germans, Japanese, etc. are at a disadvantage in the rankings only because they had used their own language for science for 50 years. They can't play fair and count only from the year 2000 on, when all the universities in the world published in English, because then the Chinese universities would mercilessly overtake Anglo-American universities. American and British universities publish in their own journals, which are read worldwide and, of course, quoted worldwide. That's one of the criterias for a good ranking.. In the UK and the US, top level research takes place mostly at universities (e.g. the development of the corona vaccine), but in Germany it is done outside the universities in public research institutes funded by the state, of which we have many, more then US and GB. Where, of course, German students get also trained and educated, beacuse they work together with universities. But these institutes don't count for the ranking just because they are not property of the university. I studied in Germany and I myself always believed the tale that the best universities are in America and GB and I have to throw myself in the dust in front of every Harvard and Oxford alumni. Until I met some alumnis in my own discipline. As we say in German: even they cook with water only. If the education at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Oxford or Cambridge is so much better, shouldn't all professors there be alumni from these universities. 35% aren't. In the meantime, however, it seems that this is also being noticed in America. There are several vlogs in which elite alumni question the system of Ivy League education, particularly when it comes to value for money, concluding that it is more appearance than reality. The PISA ranking is the same bs. The ranking ignores that in Germany we have a different course structure in school and place much more value on a broad general education and applicable knowledge than on multiple choice tests and learning by heart. Another ranking that compares apples with beans is the OECD education ranking, which always devalues Germany because allegedly too few young people graduate from college here compared to other countries. Even African countries rank higher. According to the OECD criteria, the professions we teach at schools, but the rest of the world at colleges (e.g. midwife, nurse, medical assistant, physiotherapist, etc.) don't count, because these training courses are not taught at universities but at specialized schools andd don't end with a Bachelor's degree but an exam. In Germany, almost 90% of young people complete a professional qualification, either at universities or via apprenticeships and Berufsschule. Every hairdresser, every cashier, every plumber or builder in Germany has trained for 3 years in practice and in theory at work and in school. In no other country in the world, except of Austria and Switzerland, is this the case. Our Duales Bildungssystem is famous.
das war ja mal eine ansage! woher die begründungsangst? wir alle kochen nur mit wasser mit max. 100 C. vollkommen wurscht von welcher uni das heisse wasser kommt. tum war klasse.
@@aegirmeingott Da ist keine Begründungsangst dahinter, was immer das sein soll. Aber mich nervt die Idiotie dieser internationalen Rankings, die auch in unseren Medien so verbreitet werden, als seien sie unabhängige, objektive, empirische Untersuchungen. Sind sie aber nicht. Der typische Bildzeitungsleser oder Netflix-Gucker, glaubt tatsächlich, dass Amerikanische Hochschulen allen anderen in der Welt haushoch überlegen sind, weil er genau das liest und sieht. Würde man aber auch noch andere Kriterien anlegen, wäre es nicht mehr so. Die werden aber von den untersuchenden Instituten nie angelegt werden, denn in den Schlüsselpositionen, sitzen dort überall Absolventen der angeblichen Top Unis. Die sich mit ihrem durch die Rankings aufpolierten Ruf letztlich ihr Geschäft sichern können und ihre Absolventen ihren überzogenen Marktwert. Es geht nur ums Geld und Macht. Klar, der Kanal ist vielleicht die falsche Adresse für meinen Rant, aber soll ich auf die Frage, warum Deutsche Unis so schlecht in den Rankings abschneiden, sagen, "weil sie halt so schlecht sind". Stimmt doch gar nicht! Und ja, wir kochen alle mit Wasser. Das vergessen aber manche im Glanze ihrer Absolventenurkunde der Edel-Uni.
@@Frohds14 da geb ich vollkommen recht. mir gehen diese rankings seit über 30 jahren auf die nerven. und wenn es um das geld geht, sind die us-unis beim akquierieren bedeutend besser. das hat wohl mit dem dortigen system zu tun. geld macht kleider und kleider machen leute. unsere unis sind sicherlich nicht schlechter, sonst würden auch viele studenten von ausserhalb nicht zu kommen. ich bin froh, das deutsche bildungssystem genossen zu haben und ich bin stolz darauf, dass es meine tochter auch konnte. so hoffe ich, dass durch die vielfalt der nationalitäten die weltsicht für viele besser wird. begründungsangst: manche verlieren sich darin, ausreden zu erfinden, anstatt den kern der sache zu benennen.
English is a Germanic language. Anglo-Saxon, term used historically to describe any member of the Germanic peoples who, from the 5th century ce to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), inhabited and ruled territories that are today part of England and Wales.
@@christineperez7562 What’s the point? Do you think, I as a German wouldn't have noticed the similarities, when I was learning English. Or did you just want to share your Wikipedia knowledge?
Another interesting thing about the "Ausbildung" (vocational training) system... In recent years, hybrid models have become more common that combine this sort of practical training and work experience with a university degree. For example, instead of attending a vocational school, you attend university lectures three days per week and work on the other two. You also get paid like during a regular Ausbildung (I think about 1000€ per month?) and after three years, you have two degrees, one awarded by the chamber of commerce and one by the university. others handle it differently but they all combine both systems in some way but in general... It's a bit more effort than a regular degree but it's really great for those who want the academical background and opportunities of a university degree but also gain some actual work experience and apply their knowledge.
About Deutsche Mark: I was not very happy to exchange my beloved strong Deutsche Mark into Euro because I was afraid that the Euro would turn out a lot of weaker than the Mark. At that times there was a discussion about how the the new European Central Bank should be organized. Germany won this discussion so that the European Central Bank became very independent from the politics which is on of the reason that the Euro was and is ot that weak. Weaker than the Deutsche Mark, but not as weak as I have been worried.
After World War II, Germany was completely in ruins and providing yourself or your family with food was a full-time job. There was nothing to buy in the shops because the Reichsmark was a completely insufficient means of payment. It was an endless monkey dance e.g. to get a few eggs from the farmers in the surrounding area or on the black market, what usually meant there exchanging them for something different and it only counted what you had "IN YOUR HAND". Then came the first currency reform with the introduction of the Deutsche Mark. Suddenly the shelves were full again and the so-called German economic miracle began. For the rest, this was only possible because America had waived the Germans all the war reparations. Of course not out of love for people, but because a flourishing trade in Europe also benefited American companies.
Yeah it is exactly that. We build the stuff that is used to build most other stuff. :) So China and all those other Asian powerhouses would not be able to produce anything without our tech. That is something i am kind of proud of.
The very trick on the success is, that Germans treat their workers well. We are working 38-40 h per week, two days off, 28-30 free days, paid sick leave. What does this mean? Healthy workers. Healthy workers are working better. So the productivity per working vour is higher, a german employer usually even gains from these rules. Ok, they are always complaining of course, that's part of the game. When they introduced the minimum wage (10 Euro) they all warned, many would go bankrupt, the prices would rise, many woumd loose tveir jobs etc etc. In fact, the minimum wage made a huge increase to economy. Why? because these minimum worker with 10 Euros instead of 5 or so, the spent the money for buying stuff they needed. So the money was directly reinvested in economy, more people were employed to produce these products, which meant even more people had money to buy more things... When they just introduced 12 Euro as minimum wage the voice of the companies was not too loud, at least there wasn't such an outcry as in 2015.
0:57 FKK stands for "Freikörperkultur" (Free Body Culture) and is a form of naturism, not just nudism. Nudism is just taking of your clothes, while naturism is a lifestyle.
Norway doesn't have a national minimum wage even today. Some sectors have negotiated minimum wages, but there's nothing mandated in law for the whole population.
10:35 those Pisa test are not taken seriously here since it won’t affect ur grate and when I had the pisa test a few years ago we where told that we can go home after it so everyone just finished it as fast as possible since it won’t have any effect on ur grate…
Die VisualPolitik Videos gibts auch in Deutsch von Mark Reicher. Auf dem Kanal gehts aber nicht zwangsläufig nur um Deutschland. Ich bin völlig zufällig auf den Kanal gekommen und bin immer wieder positiv überrascht wenn ich deren Videos sehe und jedesmal hab ich an irgend ner Stelle nen Aha-Effekt und lerne was neues dazu.
You never heard of "Deutsche Mark"? Listen to "Private Dancer" by Tina Turner! In the bridge part there she sung of some currencies including "Deutsch Mark". 😉
Another thing skipped on the education part is that many trades are so called "geschützte berufsbezeichnung (lit. Protected workdiscription)" wich means if you want to start a trade you have to have a degree in it. You can't just start a plumber bussines without the certuficarions this is so the coustomer can be sure the person doing a job knows what they are doing and preventing even more costly problems. Another example very good example for this is techer in a kindergarten/nursery if you want to work there you first have to become a so called social assistant that have trained 2 years in basic child care techniques (spotting development issues,planing ahe appropiate activitys and also basic stuff like changing diapers) when you reach that grade you can sork with children up to the age of 6 but you are not allowed to care for them without an "Erzieher(lit. Educator)" overseeing the group. To become an Educator you have to either be a Social Assistant or can prove working with children in another capacity for 5+ years or have children beyond the age of 12(i think not sure anymore) depending on your home state this training takes another 2 years and an additional 1 year internship with state regulated qualification tests at the end. Only then are you allowed to lead a kindergarden/nursery group or work with children and young adults up to the age of 21. Also also you will need to do a police background check when you want to work anywhere in the field and failing those basicaly wastes 4-6years of your live. On the other hand parents giving their children i to the care of a facility can be sure thateven the young early 20s person greeting them a)knows how to handle a child probably/almost certainly better thenthw parents if its their first and b) said person does have a white vest without any major criminal history even if they look kinda suspect
If you like Videos like this you might watch & react to the Geography Now (Channel name) Germany Video. It has more than 7.750.000 views! It is quite cool and summrizes facts about the country. Some of the Topics are Geography, stereotypes, Spoken Languages, Culture, Nature, Foods, Car producers & much more. Also there are more Videos about other countries too.
If you want to invest in the chip industrie, look for Bosch, Infineon, Siemens (or ASML (the one compony without all of this wouldn't be possible (from the Netherlands))). If you buy just one of the shares you have the authorization to patricipate on the annual general meeting, either where it takes place (with breakfast and lunch), or online. These events are required by stock corporation law. The VisualPolitik Guy is absolutly great (despite his shirts).
Wow even me as a German learnd something. And FKK (frei körper Kultur = Free body culture word by word translation) what he talks about the training after school is called apprenticeship, in german sometimes called Lehre from lernen (learning). its mostly about 3 years. You have school dys where you learn therory stuff about your proffesion and days where you work in the company, most commen is one week school 2-3 weeks company. And in this schools Berufsschule, they also catch up and teach you the sutff you maybe missed in normal school or you sucked at, mostly math. So after 3 years you get testet and if you suced it, you are qulified to work in that job. And thats the system for most Job here. Without a proper apprenticeship education, there are not many jobs left to do... may mc donalds...or cleaning
Robert Bosch once said: „Ich zahle nicht gute Löhne, weil ich viel Geld habe, sondern ich habe viel Geld, weil ich gute Löhne bezahle.
it means: i don't pay high salaries because i have much money. i have much money because i pay high salaries.
It’s kind of sad, that this truth is not treated that well all nowadays at every company. I mean we have bad jobs with very little salaries and bad circumstances in general. Sadly enough that our nurses or care keeper of elderly people aren’t payed good for there work.
I swear most you Americans have no idea what socialism really is.
They don't.
... but they all are against it! Why they don't learn about the basics of political systems in school?
they think socialism is communism
@@juwen7908 easy: at the moment they are easily controlled with being not educated very well and just believe what they are told. Just imagine what would happen if they were taught about politics or how it really is in other countries!
99.99%
Little anecdote: Ludwig Erhard, the guy who invented the Social Market Economy, had Gotten the Order of establishing a Free Market Economy like in the US. Before Western Germany was formed, Erhard was already the Economic Minister of the American occupation Zone. Instead of just doing what he was said to do, he sat with a Team of renowned economists and created the idea of the Social Market Economy, which was basically this:
"We should use the Benefits of a Capitalistic Economy and use its power to garantee social security to the entire population, while providing safety measures for vulnerable parts of our society."
So he implemented this new system instead.
His American boss was furious, to say the least...
But it worked, and it still does work. And maybe, just maybe, American workers today are flabbergasted by our working conditions in Germany. You call it Benefits, we call it rights. Socialism itself doesnt always have to be evil. You just need to know how to use it.
Yeah and didn´t he implement the first laws on a 4th of July so the Americans weren´t at work to monitor the Implementation of the law? I read that somewhere, could also be complete rubbish.
That's not entirely true. The "social" aspect came later. The term "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" was a propaganda term by the CDU.
"Entstehung
Alfred Müller-Armack wählte diese Wortverbindung erstmals 1946 in seinem Werk Wirtschaftslenkung und Marktwirtschaft, das 1947 veröffentlicht wurde.[16] Er entwarf die Soziale Marktwirtschaft als „dritte Form“ neben rein liberaler Marktwirtschaft und staatlicher Wirtschaftslenkung. Für die Wirtschaftsordnung des vom Krieg zerstörten Deutschlands solle der Markt als „tragendes Gerüst“ in „eine bewusst gesteuerte, und zwar sozial gesteuerte Marktwirtschaft“ eingebettet sein.[17] Den Versuch, „das Prinzip der Freiheit auf dem Markte mit dem des sozialen Ausgleichs zu verbinden“, bezeichnete Müller-Armack als „irenische Formel“.[18] Etwa zur gleichen Zeit verwendete der sozialdemokratische Ordoliberale Leonhard Miksch, der seit Anfang 1948 als Leiter des Referats für „Preiswirtschaftliche Grundsatzfragen und Betriebswirtschaft“ enger Mitarbeiter Erhards war, den Begriff soziale Marktwirtschaft lange vor Erhard.[19] Eine öffentliche Verwendung des Begriffs ist laut Uwe Fuhrmann jedoch nicht vor Juni 1948 belegt.[20]
Verbreitung durch die CDU
Zunächst wurde der Ausdruck kaum verwendet.[21][22] Die CDU beschloss am 3. Februar 1947 das Ahlener Programm; in diesem wurde der Kapitalismus abgelehnt.
Erst durch das CDU-Programm für die Bundestagswahl am 14. August 1949 - die Düsseldorfer Leitsätze - wurde der Begriff einer größeren Öffentlichkeit bekannt.[21] Das neue wirtschaftspolitische Schlagwort „Soziale Marktwirtschaft“, von der CDU als Gegenbegriff zu „unsoziale Planwirtschaft“ gesetzt, war anfangs umstritten.[23] Von sozialdemokratischer und gewerkschaftlicher Seite, zum Teil aber auch vom Arbeitnehmer-Flügel der CDU, wurde die Wortverbindung als Euphemismus und als rein propagandistisches Schlagwort kritisiert. Von unternehmerischer und wirtschaftsliberaler Seite wurde befürchtet, das Attribut „sozial“ würde Erwartungen wecken, die dem wirtschaftlichen Fortschritt oder der deutschen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit entgegenstünden.[22][23] Ludwig Erhard wurde nach der Bundestagswahl 1949 Wirtschaftsminister im Kabinett Adenauer I."
Solche Eingriffe und Regulierungen wie bei uns durch das soziale Netz wirst du in den Staaten niemals erleben. Daher auch das Entsetzen des Vorgesetzten Erhards.
It also didn't come from nowhere. There was a long tradition of fighting for workers rights beforehand, and somehow the workers always had allies in high positions so to speak.
What Erhard did was just to transfer what already existed to an organisation. As before Erhard it was 'Capital is for the people not the people are for the capital'. During that time the success was set not by that Erhard. He was just another Trittbrettfahrer.
It is a tradition in Germany to treat workers well. People like Robert Bosch and others established that already at the end of 19th and beginning of the 20th century. If the workers are well, the company goes well.
I am an employer in Germany and yes, in anticipation of the higher inflatio I rised the wages without being asked for and paid two energy price compensation bonusses. I think this is the duty for an responsible employer and it benefits the company already.
@@TheDoctorIWho I get that, but I think that in the States the shareholder´s pressure on the company is usually bigger. More companies are public, and it is pretty easy to get fresh money at the stock market in the US. But that also increases the shareholder´s influence with no counterweight (or at least mostly not) by a union or else. And shareholders usually don´t like high cost for wages. That is, for the last ~20 years or so, when wages usually were the highest cost for a company. In the next few years, I think wages won´t be that important, energy cost will be the deciding factor.
yes a lot of companys give u small winning shares for working with them!
@@leoh3616 That's stupid. In a world where the developed countries do not produce things anymore but have only R&D and Services the employes are the capital of the companies.
@@TheDoctorIWho u sir deserve all the success u can get
I am from germany and i would really like to go through a walmart training just to leave the room laughing when that video plays. 😆😆
Also have to understand, Unions in Germany and Unions in USA is also very different. I´m not saying one is good, and one is bad, what i´m saying is that there golds and method is widely different.
No Social Market System doesn't mean socialism. This means, companies are responsible for their workers and society for its citizens. Practically this means, we have a solidary system. We as society share the costs of everything, just in case somethings going wrong and you get sick, can't work any more or whatever could go wrong.
And sidenote: Tesla broke a hell lot of laws in Germany, but didn't care about at all. The price they pay for that, their workers are leaving and going back to their former jobs, because they realize what a bad company Tesla really is. My bet would be, Tesla wouldn't make it in Germany as Walmart failed in the past. If you want do buisiness in Germany, you shouldn't be ignorant and self centered.
Agreed. Musk is such a self-centered narcissist that he believes himself to be able to effectively buy anything he wants, including circumventing national laws. Like Walmart he fell flat on his face.
he is american... what do you expect? Instead of LISTENING and trying to UNDERSTAND the video, he just jumps to conclusions.
It's very American to cut people's wages and conditions.
@@ulliulli why are you so rude? He might be wrong; explain to him, where he is wrong ... in your eyes. It is so bad: You understood the video in a different way than he did. Isn't it his right?Or do you understand everything immediately?
I find it funny that people go out of their way to point out that socialist policies are not socialism. Even while using the word solidarity to explain the policy
It's pretty amazing how cognitively dissonant that is to be honest
Also, in Germany (and many other European countries) all shops and businesses (except restaurants, petrol stations and the like) are closed on Sundays. The realization that after hard work you should also have a good rest is firmly anchored in almost all of Europe.
I would say this is mostly a German thing, or possible the closest countries. That is not really the case in most of Europe.
The total everything is close on Sundays is really mostly Germany. While Denmark also have very limited opening time at Sundays. But go a bit more away like Sweden or UK, Sundays are generally similar to Saturdays with typically 2 hours less open. In Germany downtown looks like in a apocalypse movie on Sundays
nope that is absolutely not the reason shops are closed on sundays.... germany is officially a christian state and theres no seperation between church and state... the shops closed on sundays is because yada yada weird dude in bible rested there after he made the earth
@@LoFiAxolotl That's how the Sunday rest came about, that's right. However, it later became a day of rest, independent of the church. Article 140 of the Grundgesetz: "Sunday and state-recognized holidays remain legally protected as days of rest and spiritual uplift." That means Sunday is just as protected as (for example) the Day of German Unity as a public holiday.
Even in bible it says „ at the 7th day you should rest“
@@LoFiAxolotl Thats wrong, Germany is not a christian state and there is a clear seperation between church and state. Germany is secular, meaning all Religions are allowed to be practiced and none are favored. This has been the case since the Weimarer Verfassung in 1919.
THe Sunday to rest is based on christian religion for sure, but the rest is false.
I have lived in Germany for a long time now and the German language is not hard to learn and after awhile it gets easy to pronounce the words correctly. I have tried to explain the way things work here in Germany to some of my sissters and brothers and they just do not want to hear that a different country could be doing thins better then America. The worst is trying to get them to understand the health care system here. It seems as tho they put on blinders and turn off their hearing aids.
If they could afford hearing aids without a Goodland healthcare system
@@i_like_dinnos2847 the hearing aids would probably be made in Germany
@@rickylein1581 doesnt matter where they are Made, germany only pays for german citizens they couldnt buy it in germany for cheaper
@@i_like_dinnos2847 i just meant that as a joke regarding the comment about not willing to think another country could do something better than america - wasnt referring to your comment specifially, sorry :)
I moved from the states to Germany went to college (free) and learned the cabinetmaker trade through a 3 year training, the formal name for this training is called Ausbildung. 2 days of school 3 days of work. Going to special workshops for weeks at a time and learning everything from the ground up. Not only do you get paid a little for your training but you also get your health insurance premiums paid, and your payments into the retirement system. If your married your spouse get the health insurance benefits too. Whereas going to school you don't pay into retirement nor do you get health insurance. You have to pay that yourself. So Ausbildung is an attractive offer for young people, who don't have the highest grades in school or for those looking for a secure workplace. The contracts are basically set in stone. If both parties follow the agreement then there's no possibility to get fired or lose your job.
You say if they go to school they woudn't have a healthinsurance. That's not correct. In that case they are insured by theire parents.
@@connycatlady7429 but only until the maximum age of 25.
@@davdaninja That's right. In that time they should be done. And the insurance is free.
We (Workers and taxpayers) pay for your college. It might be free for you, but it's not for us.
@@Fuerwahrhalunke its still basically free we could also just use the tax money for other stuff like the US and dont pay college.
Fun Fact: If your Employer wants to fire you and you have a Trade Union in the Company, he has to file the case to them to discuss wether the termination is appropriate /correct or not, depending on your personal Situation like Age, Childs, social Situation or known Disabilities.
You will never be called on an evening with your boss saying: You´r fired^^
No but they might just "find a reason" why they have to fire you.
One thing about the educational system didn’t get mentioned. In order to have apprentices there has to be a “ Meister” in the business. This Master has to go through official tests and additional training in order to obtain this title. That’s the way to make sure that the quality level of training is more or less equal.
Honestly I just love this content.
As a german many things we do here is just normal to me and getting an outside opinion on our ways is realy cool!
Keep doing your thing.
My grandson got an apprentiship at 15 when he left high school. He is now 19 and in a well paid job at the firm he trained in. He,s more than happy about it.
10:30 When it comes to the PISA study you have to bear in mind that secondary education in Germany employs streaming: According to your aptitude you finish either aged 15, 16 or 18. The German PISA score of 500 is an average of all three. If you finish aged 18 with your Abitur (Baccalaureate) the PISA score is 600.
In comparison China which is ranked No1 achieves 591 and the USA ranked 38th only 478 (I used the Maths scores).
US universities know the value of the German Abitur and with it they will award you a Bachelor Degree in half the time ie 2 years instead of 4.
in addition, we where told we can go home after we finished the pisa test, which didnt influence our marks. so suprisingly everyone left after ten minutes...
@pegamini interessant! Ich hab immer gedacht, dass da was nicht stimmen kann
@@iZeb0xthanks for informing. That was totally stupid when comparency is the gial.
@@iZeb0x exactly. We had to take the the Pisa test right in the middle of our regular tests in 9th grade, which were way more important to us. You didn't get a grade on the Pisa study, so there was literally no incentive to give your best at it. And I'm sure everyone can imagine how psyched we were about taking yet another test which wasn't even relevant for our Grades. If anything the Pisa study just shows which country has the most commited and competitive students, in my opinion.
The training system doesn't apply just to labor work companies. I am working in accounting and I did a 3 years training in an office when I was 17. There, I learned all about accounting, controlling, marketing etc. At the end we were so well trained that we could choose which department we wanna work in at the end. I decided to stay in accounting and already was ready to work without much further help. I earned about 700 - 900 Euros a month during my training, each year getting paid higher. This helped me to save money. With my work experience in this field, there is no difference between me with "just" a training and someone with a college degree. Though, I have more work experience.
Most bank clerks, insurance clerks, retail sales clerks, etc. learn their profession through the training system and not through an economics degree. However, companies often help if you want to study related to your job after your apprenticeship. Some companies also offer in-house courses.
Commercial professions in particular now often offer dual (university) studies: vocational training + studies instead of vocational school = training certificate + bachelor’s degree.
"is this why it took so long to build their factory" .... dude they already skipped a lot of steps thanks to the politicians basically giving the OK for everything.
The problem with Americans is that they are taught to Win, to be the Best... creating a culture where people prefer to fight for their point of views and opinions rather then talk it out, avoid conflict and compromise where possible like in most of the rest of the world.
It's a dog eat dog society. I can't think of a better lesson to learn if I was growing up in the US.
It's important to win. Or else you are f*cked. On a generational level.
We are the best.
@@bigbake132
@@bigbake132 The best in killing all around the world? YES !!
@@matthiasewert3587 Yes, we are the best at killing when we chose to employ our lethality. The US is the only civilization in world history that has the power to take over the world, yet chooses not to.
I once bought a machine, not me personally, from a German company.
When I was at the point of leaving their office, the director, owner came to us and asked his technician.
That machine we sold, is that all right, well build? You know it has my name on it and don't make me ashamed.
So he did not ask: did we make money on it. But did we deliver quality, what we promised to do.
I bought loads of German machines and that is their point of view: quality comes first.
That's why we did not buy any American. And that is a fact.
"what a novel idea" - dude, it was done like that since at least the middle ages. (apprenticeships, that is)
Even Tesla has to treat their workers well,if they want to operate in Germany.
Walmart had to retreat out of Germany because they realised their buisness-model and their way of treating staff was not profitable in Germany
@@joern122 Works the other way round for ALDI though. :D
Nope, ordo-liberalism or social market economy is definitely not socialism. I always throw out that sexy and sexist are not the same either even though they look so similar.
There are quite a few more factors that play into Germany's strong position. Trade and craft skills are not considered low skill or low paying jobs. Many people with these skills have similar or even higher wages than other employees. Only higher management jobs will pay more.
social market economy is per definition part of the spectrum of socialist theories.
socialism is not automaticly Marxism-Leninism like in the USSR or GDR.
the german healthcare and education systems are also socialism, but not communist
Socialism is not automaticly communism.
just like sexy does not mean sexist
"....sexy and sexist..." yes well said👍🤣
@@zhufortheimpaler4041 But in germany they differentiate between social market economy and socialism. socialism means that the workers own the factories and that is not the fact in germany
@@SD_Alias and thts something only people with a shallow understanding would do
@@zhufortheimpaler4041 You won't believe how many of those live on our planet and also vote...
No, a social market economy is not "pretty much just socialism".
Its socialism lite and a welfare state. So, close enough.
@@bigbake132 yes, nice isn't it? We like it, better than dying because you can't afford medical insurance,or starving because you can't work anymore.
@@patverum9051 That doesn't happen lol.
@@patverum9051 Keep your socialism and high taxes anyway. I'll keep my large house and property, car, truck, boat, nice things, low taxes. Enjoy!
Keep your Big PaperHouse, you Straight On Cars with Big Machines, you cant even Use. Keep all the stuff, nobody needs.
America stays for:
With the money, we do not have, we bought things, nobody even need, to impress people, nobody like.
Thats the american way of „life“. A useless life, nobody on the planet needs.
No where on the planet, not in russia, not in the ucraine, not in any country in africa, so much people ask me about money, than in the states. 10 times a stayed there for work. L.a., Frisco, atlanta, vegas, chicago and some smaller towns around. Ill people, with no health system, with no social mindset. Districts of empty houses and people live in tents in streets of town. No state money for education, but for the biggest military on the planet.
You will find more things, write for weeks here. Between mexico and canada, is nothing, anyone of the world want to get.
Just a lot of stupid and asocial people, they do not know, anything from the world.
To my mind the big advantadge of the german system is, as mentioned in your video, the combination of apprenticeship in the company as well as several hours in a proffessional school. In the company your learn practical things (but not only in theory, but in real work for the company) and in school you learn more general stuff and things your company isn't able to teach you. The effekt is that you can
start immediatelly a job in a company because you know the circumstances. Furthermore you got a very good knowledge which makes it possible to join another company without bigger adjustment problems.
Sorry for being late. This video starts already with the most genuine 15 seconds I have ever seen on RUclips. Hats off to you, sir.
You could be working in a field where the trade unions do not apply. So there is a 'trade union light' system in place called Betriebsrat (workers council), which you also can have even though your workplace is covered by a union. Once your workplace has 5 fulltime employees of which 3 are working there for at least half a year, you can elect a workers council. The employer must not interfere with it and you even have protection by law from being fired for a certain time, even if your 4 other colleagues decide agains setting up a workers council.
the vocational training is especially important to handicrafts, builders, and trades. in many of those areas you are not allowed to work without an examination, for example you need to be an electrician to be allowed to install the cabling in a house. in a way this mays seem as a relict of the medieval (and in fact it comes from that time), but is ensures quality.
"Thank you for watching. That was super interesting" - Yes, I agree. I'm german and didn't know those details ;-)
Thx for your vids. Most of them let me experience my country way more positive than I'm used to it.
😂
Though this video gives a comprehensive overview over the German economy, it's only a glance and far away from being all encompassing.
The foundation of it is Basic Law (our constitution) Art 14. [Property - Inheritance - Expropriation]
(1) Property and the right of inheritance shall be guaranteed. Their content and limits shall be defined by the laws.
(2) Property entails obligations. Its use shall also serve the public good.
(3) Expropriation shall only be permissible for the public good. It may only be ordered by or pursuant to a law that determines the nature and extent of compensation. Such compensation shall be determined by establishing an equitable balance between the public interest and the interests of those affected. In case of dispute concerning the amount of compensation, recourse may be had to the ordinary courts.
The philosophy behind "Social Market Economy" is: As few state interventions into the markets as possible (i.e. capitalism) and as much intervention as necessary (i.e. socialism) to have balanced markets where no participant is in a stronger position than other participants. For e.g. the US labor market is skewed in favor of companies. Companies can hire and fire "at will", so employees will rather not use their rights to not lose their jobs and benefits (e.g. working unpaid overtime, aborting a vacation, etc.). In Germany, the labor laws guarantee certain rights and companies not adhering to them risk lawsuits and fines (CEOs and other executives risk personal fines and jail time). Trade unions are seen as an integral part of the labor market as they strengthen the workers' leverage. Trade unions and the companies of a certain industry (e.g. chemical) negotiate salaries and benefits for a certain period of time (e.g. two years) and for all companies of a certain industry and all workers in that industry (regardless if they're union members or not). Having trade union members as members of the board leads to understanding and cooperation (the company can only be well if the workers are well and vice versa) instead of confrontation.
Another example is the housing market with more than 60% of the population living in rented accommodation. German landlords are seen as the (economically) stronger participant in the housing market. Therefore tenants have lots of rights that protect them from eviction (I know bc I'm renting out apartments). Even when tenants can't (or won't) pay their rent, you first have to sue them for eviction (which takes several months) before you can evict them. But if there's no housing available in the same city or county they might be evicted into the apartment with the council paying the rent (but not what they're already due).
Vocational training or apprenticeship is the backbone of German craftsmanship. They guarantee a minimum of skills so every employer can trust that the person in front of them is able to do the job they're to be hired for. Companies invest in the education of their workforce, so they have a pool of skilled workers to pick from.
SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises, that often are family-owned, highly specialized, and often world leaders in their field) are the backbone of the German industry. They have more employees than the big players. They rather retain employees than firing and rehiring them (bc rehiring is not guaranteed and training a new workforce is expensive). And then there are regulations which help. In case of order shortages (e.g. due to CoVid), companies can reduce hours at will and only pay workers for their actual hours - and the Labor Agency pays the employees the other hours (not fully, but a high percentage of their net earnings). This brings a benefit to all involved parties. Employers only pay the equivalent of actual working hours and keep their skilled and often times highly specialized staff, when orders are starting to come in they can immediately ramp up production. Employees keep their job with only minimal financial losses. The Labor Agency pays a lot less than it would have paid when the workers were fired. Win-win-win situation.
Loved this video. Subscribed. Greetings from Germany ❤
The PISA studies, for reasons others have already mentioned here, have to indeed be taken with a grain of salt. But the cultural differences in the reactions to them are interesting. Several years ago, when one of those studies was published, I happened to watch both German and French public television news as well as American tv news (as I live in the US). France that year ended up in approximately, I don't remember the exact numbers, 11th place, Germany in 13th and the US in 28th. The reaction on French tv was 'Well, we could do a bit better, but we're in a solid middle spot, that's not so bad'. In Germany, the reaction was 'Oh my, only 13th? We have to completely reorganize our educational system.' In the US? No reaction at all, in fact, no mention of the study anywhere on the tv news....
The training in companies combiened with school is common in all professions, nurses, cashier, waitress electrician and so on. After 2 to 3 and a half years payd trainining an school you make your exam then you enter the workforce or go back to school for a higher education
A keyfactor is, that happier people who can make a living from what they earn are more motivated and there for more productive. Greets from Germany
Sorry aber von welchem Fantasieland labert ihr hier
@@achnix3167 🤣🤣🤣 Joar, wenn man schon an der ersten Lektion Englisch gescheitert ist, versteht man es vielleicht nicht. 😏
@@ingobordewick6480 Dass du bullshit laberst liegt nicht an der Sprache in der es geschrieben ist...
@@achnix3167 so, du hast also 3 Jobs um deine Miete bezahlen zu können?
Regarding the Currency: The "Deutsche Mark" (DM) dod so well that to this day some german would rather have it instead of the Euro (€)
great video, had a lota fun
Dude, I am so hooked with your videos :)
I studied Microelectronics Engineering in Germany and in one Lecture we learned how the accelerometer from Bosch works and is produced.
It is cool to see this technology, which i had to discribe in my exam, is named in an youtube video about my country 🤓😇
I like german cars, engineering and of course american consumer electronics ❤
Greetings from the Krauts 😊
4:49
Ludwig Erhard was the expert in economic matters.
He became famous as a minister, but failed as chancellor.
Three Bonn years.
(Bonn = W.-Germanys Capital, 1949-1991)
And now your at over 50000!congrats!let's double it!
it is always interesting how others see your country
Very interesting. I've been to Germany and they do things very well.
Tank you.
Except many of us are wondering if we are going to be freezing in a few months. 😂😂
@@amradzinovic4086 And you know inside, "we won't"...
@@rainerzufall42 Well,I won't for sure.I lived in Bosnia(as a little child),Spain,France,and now I live in Germany.It wouldn't be a problem for me to move on.The West has lost it's compass,they've done some incredibly idiotic things.I like it here in Baden-Württemberg,but if I decide to move on,Buenos Aires is waiting for me. 🙂 Of course,I hope that all of my Germans will be ok.
@@amradzinovic4086 well, toodeloo then.
Little fun fact: Siemens is a gigantic powerhouse in electric products and also movement (Siemens Mobility).
They have built the ES64U2 and ES64U4, better known as Taurus, which is used all throughout Austria and the ÖBB, powering the "Railjet" and short distance trains alike.
They also built the Siemens Velaro, a train that is used for the ICE 3, the new Eurostar E320 / BR Class 374, the spanish RENFE Model 103 and even the turkish high speed train TCDD HT80000.
This subdevision alone makes 9 billion €s a year.
Pay attention that Simon only said "Students". Not every education in Germany is done that way.
I left Realschule at 16 years, then had 1 year of "Berufsvorbereitung" which was wasted time cause they didn't take it that seriously (the place doesn't exist anymore, it was "bombed" to hell by the Agentur für Arbeit xD).
After that I chose to make a traineeship as a salesman in e-commerce at the BBW Abensberg. I have Autism, and I went there full time, going to my traineeship during the day and sleeping at the campus over night.
I finished last month, passed my final and verbal exam. Sadly since then nothing positive has happened.
I had over 30 appliances at local companies and they all rejected me. I now have no work, and am back home now. It sucks.
Thanks to Covid, our graduation party was also cancelled (yaaaaaaaaaaaaay)
If the Agentur für Arbeit isn't fast enough with providing Arbeitslosengeld 1, I will be financially broke at the end of the month.
Great things to look out for.
I have Autism too and work as a nurse here in Germany.
I hope your situation has been improving 😕
A far as vocational training is concerned: the chamber of commerce and the chamber of crafts are working in tandem with the ministries of education, establishing a curriculum for each profession, which fits the requirements of businesses. The trade schools are the responsibility of the federal states, and attendance is mostly compulsory. The training employers are obliged to follow the established curriculum. In the end graduates have a broad knowledge of their profession and are thus more independent and flexible, as well as have gained a word wide recognized certificate.
Mercedes and BMW have established a comparable system with local colleges in America.
As a craftsman or -woman, one also has the opportunity to seek a master craftsman's certificate, which would qualifiy for management positions, taking responsibility for the vocational trainings, as well as giving one the approbiate skills (e. g. business economics and accounting) to establish your own company. Some craftsmanships even demand a master craftsman's certificate in order to establish a company.
Furthermore, the vocational and academic education is interlocked. As a graduate of a vocational training, you might enroll in university of applied science (German Fachhochschule), though it depents on the federal state and/or subject of study.
Ahh, we have another person who found the 5 million Simon Whistler channels :D
I had to laugh when you mentioned that workers will only be needed until they are replaced by robots. That is so american.
How about a country of 18 million being the 2nd largest agricultural exporter in the World ( The Netherlands)
You mean the public parking lot of Germany? Meh...
@@dan_kayStop bullshitting Dan.
5:10 "Is that pretty much just socialism?" Every American: Socialism is when the government does stuff. And if the government does even more stuff its communism. ;D
Often I do not understand the (sorry) dumb american view of socialismn (If I have to pay for something that I do not need now). On the other side their are proud of their "Hero" Firefighters (Do firefighters only work for people that paid them beforehand? - If your house burns do they come and say "Your credit card please - fighting the fire will cost you $10.000 here is the contract" or do you pay them from your taxes (even if your house is not burning at the moment)? - So for the US understanding of social = socialismn = communismn firfighters are satanic devilish communists. Same with Police and the US-Airforce, Army and Navy and with so much communistic stuff the US must be communistic (Army protects every American and not only the americans who have a Army contract for protection how dare communistic is this).
A funny thing is, when they were looking for a name for the new European currency, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl pushed through the name Euro because the other name suggestions sounded too much like soft currencies to him.
I can highly recommend the visualpolitik channel. Well researched reports from all parts of the world. Why am I watching your videos? It allows me to see my country through someone else's eyes, through a person who is humble but seems to be very open to the world
If you’re interested in chipmakers and such you might look at the only company that builds the machines that chipmakers use: ASML. 🤔 (not German but Dutch still thought might be of use)
FKK is short for 'Freikörperkultur', which means 'free body culture', if you translate literally. If you translate analogously, 'free' means 'naked' in FKK. I Like the videos! You found out a lot of things I didn't even know. And I've lived in Germany my whole life... :D
in germany, PISA studies is kinda treated like a joke. where other countries specifically prepare for it and have their students do their best, in germany you just take the test and don't really care about the results. PISA studies is not something i would treat seriously.
I think it`s good that Germanyhas such a good training system for every job you do 3-5 years of training for every job where you have to do, practical work and go to school twice a week in a class that is specifically related to you training such inthe office,as an electrian,hairdresser etc. halfway through the training you have to do an intermediate test for which you get written grade and practilly at the end of the training you have to take another written and practical test for which you also get a grade again,you have your passed you get a training certificated certificate that you have passed the exam so you can then apply to different employers because you are now qualified.🙂
As a german I can't imagine, how the rest of the world works without that. Is Ausbildung really just a german thing? Unbelievable!!!
@@juwen7908 Yes i also can`t understand why only Germany has such a good training system i think if there were something like that in other european countries then youth unemployment wouldn`t be as high as in italy or france for example which is really a shame.
When I was studying German we went over their educational system. There are 3 kinds of "high school" Gymnasium which is like college prep school, Gesamtschule which is similar to American high school - little bit of everything and Beruftschule which is like a trade school/work study thing. Students are encouraged to pick a educational track around 5th grade.
Don't forget Hauptschule and Realschule, the two branches parallel to Gymnasium
You got that mixed up a little bit.
There are three forms of consecutive school education after elementary school, which are Gymnasium, which offers preparation for university studies, and Realschule and Mittelschule which qualify students for apprenticeships but give different degrees to students (Realschule is ranked higher than Mittelschule). A Gesamtschule combines these three forms in one school.
Berufsschule is what you attend to when doing an apprenticeship. While you learn to practical skills at work at your company, Berufsschule offers the additional "theoretical" training, like e.g. calculations, laws, etc.
Visualpolitik is a great channel! 👍
I work in a job, we're I had blocklessons to learn. Some 1 - 4 Weeks "school" and than some weeks on the hospital in the stations to get a nurse.
Just as an example after I stumbled across your video here. Most beverages in the US are filled and packaged with German machines.
A really interesting video 🙈
In the tiny little village i was born in we have a tiny little company. It literally consisted of the boss, a secretary, two metal working masters and a handful of apprentices on a single manufacturing floor only slightly bigger than your average living room. They produce only a single product which is high precision lifting benches. But we are talking nano meter precision here. This kind of precision might seem overkill at first but it's absolutly crucial for, among other things, high end chip manufacturing. And this tiny little company is the world leader in their field. You can pretty much assume that every single chip manifacturer as well as many labs world wide at some point has done business with them.
Just in case you are still wondering: FKK stands for „Freie Körperkultur“, which translates to „free body culture“.
Sounds like you've never heard of a labour union before, because this is exactly how the building trades function.
Its how the building trades work in America as well (plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc.) . You start off as an apprentice, get paid to work and go to class. Then after working for so long you take a journeymen test. Once you pass that you get the full wages and benefits. If you want to start a company and be a contractor you take a Master test to be a master of your trade.
And yeah, Musk running face-first into german trade union laws and having a spat with teh uniosn adn the govenrment was a huge factor in why Tesla has had such a rcoky start in Germany. It's also part of the reason why Walmart just completely flopped their attempt to operate in Germany.
Proir to the world wars, germany had been the biggest economy and exporter in the world. The British hated that. Now do your math.
That's why they attacked France? And wanted GB on their side....
@@patverum9051 no man. First of all, the victors write history. They never gonna blame themselves. Second of all, once you're prosperous you have absolutely no interest in destroying it by initiating a war. Meanwhile England had a huge navy and a bad economy. France hated Germany for a long time, see Napoleonic wars. Germany was involved in the least of the wars in the past millenia, let alone starting them. If you would be familiar with the german mentality, you'd know that they are peace loving people (generally).
But if you Bully someone long enough, why would you wonder if they slap you back? Also never underestimate acts coming out of jealousy.
Famous quote of Robert Bosch, that explains a lot: I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
I have seen your videos for as long as you started. This one is amazing. This is why Walmart crashed when they wanted to their company in Germany.
Didn't know those things.
Thanks Ryan.
(I'm not good at oeconomics.)
3:04 You can not invest in Bosch. Robert Bosch GmbH (the corporation which owns Bosch Sensortech) is wholly owned by a non-profit charitable foundation.
Btw Bosch is the world's largest automotive supplier, the second largest is ZF (if your car has a gearbox it is more likely a ZF box than not).
ZF too is wholly owned by a non-profit charitable foundation. Instead of going to shareholders profits from both go to good causes.
There are two more things to say.
There is the model for a corporate as a "cooperation". There are some companies that work like that. Famous is mondragon in spain. One of the bigger corps. The workers usually own part of the corp. The workers elect their managers also the CEO. Who has max 8 times the salary of the lowest payed worker. Works well for them.
Second. Besides the unions germany has a "Betriebsverfassungsgesetz", a law that encourages workers in companies from more than 5 full time jobs to elect a representative who talks to the company owner or board about problems or personnel things. That guy cannot be fired for the 4 years it takes and 2 years after. In bigger companies the elected guy(s) are doing this full time. They are often in a union but do not need to be in one. Sometimes it give problems but more often the management gets good info about possible improvements from the company floor.
13:44 That is the annual meeting of Siemens shareholders before Covid, in a big concert hall in Munich. Now it is all online, which is a shame, it always was really interesting to be there.
I worked for Siemens a long time, and Siemens gave their employees shares for half the price, so we are interested in a profit-making company. Now that I am retired I still have money from the company, a monthly pension and an annual part of the profits. So I am connected to the company my whole life. The exact opposite of the hire-and-fire-shame of the US.
What many countries forget is that happy employees are working faster and better.
12:40 I my case I did go to a job after highschool and I was fully trained in the time my peers where just starting university/college. But I wanted to go on so I went 1 year to prep school and was able to go to any university like my peers a year earlyer but I was limited to a technical university because I had a technical job. As I was through university of applied sciences (Fachhochschule) I was 1 year behind but I had 3 years job experience.
When you said that Tesla's Gigafactory took a long time to build, I almost laughed. We are so used to all kinds of bureaucratic and company process prolonging these kinds of projects that for me the moment of completion of the Gigafactory arrived very quickly XD
"this is why it took so long for tesla...". The Tesla factory build is well known for being crazy fast here in germany. But that is because of another regulation called "duty of care". Tesla needed to prove a diversity of stuff before they could even start to build. no harm for the environment etc.
In my opinion, the coolest aspect of the german economy are 'tiny leaders':
Small companies and factories that are so specialized and good in their fields that they become world-leaders in their branch.
E.g. my birthtown both had a company that supplies the external lighting solutions for a ton of famous sightseeing spots (like the Brandenburg Gate or even the Burj Al Arab) and got a relatively well known toy/model car factory, that exported across europe as well!
Also, the vocational training system goes to some crazy lengths in germany, as even the german equivalent of the FBI offers vocational training!
By the way: Kanzler Konrad Adenauer was a inventor too. For example he invented a vegetarian sausage.
This is a German system, work/education that ensures the company of a next generation well trained/educated workforce. The reall "money"..wealth of the company is in the quality and the health of the workers/ employers. There has to be an agreement between different parties ; the employer(Volkswagen, Bosch, etc.) the government and the workers.
The work/life ballance, affordable healthcare, education, workers-rights for good wages, hollidays, sick leave etc everything is well organised, and regulated by law.
This system is not build on GREED for one, but build on prosperity for ALL. I bet that if there would be ONE state in the US, that would be able to model it's economic system to the German model, completely free and independend from the "greedy, all for me"..mentality that is now in place in Washington-politics, this state will do well within no time, the people living there would live well and prosper.
Please restrain yourself in cynical and hatefull comments. This is in no way a US bashing-writing from my part, but merely an insite of how things are able to change. This comment is also not there to say that everything in Germany or Europe is better than in the US.
The only reason , is concern from my part, about the downward spiral the US is in right now.!!
Aloha! A hungarian from Germany!😃🍻
Ryan, you need to come and visit!
💙⭐
(I hope you won't be disappointed then.. 🙈🙈)
Hey,
German writing here. I like your videos but I've got one question: Is it just you and some other people's or a general American thing that you think about socialism as soon as someone speaks about anything 'social' in a political context? Please get into the topic socialism and history before judging a system which ist based on a capitalistic economy with some social nets as socialistic.
Thx and good luck with ur channel
The reason why Germany always does so poorly in university rankings is that Anglo-American universities make the rules for these rankings and only use their own academic system as basis, although the system of other European countries differs.
E.g,:
The traditional German universities are all state universities.
Studying there is free.
BUT , this is not a criterion at all for the rankings. WHY? Because anglo-american elite universities charge exorbitant fees.
Because German universities are state-run, they don't have to generate any money themselves or hoard assets. However, university assets are a criterion for the ranking. WHICH are the richest universities in the world? The Ivy League and Oxbridge.
Most scientific publishers in Germany are private and did publish mostly in German until the Millenium, and therefore German scientists writing in German got rarely quoted in English-language publications.
However, all citations and publications since 1950 are included in the ranking and not just since the millennium when the French and Germans also began to publish in English.
The French, Germans, Japanese, etc. are at a disadvantage in the rankings only because they had used their own language for science for 50 years. They can't play fair and count only from the year 2000 on, when all the universities in the world published in English, because then the Chinese universities would mercilessly overtake Anglo-American universities.
American and British universities publish in their own journals, which are read worldwide and, of course, quoted worldwide. That's one of the criterias for a good ranking..
In the UK and the US, top level research takes place mostly at universities (e.g. the development of the corona vaccine), but in Germany it is done outside the universities in public research institutes funded by the state, of which we have many, more then US and GB. Where, of course, German students get also trained and educated, beacuse they work together with universities. But these institutes don't count for the ranking just because they are not property of the university.
I studied in Germany and I myself always believed the tale that the best universities are in America and GB and I have to throw myself in the dust in front of every Harvard and Oxford alumni. Until I met some alumnis in my own discipline. As we say in German: even they cook with water only.
If the education at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Oxford or Cambridge is so much better, shouldn't all professors there be alumni from these universities. 35% aren't.
In the meantime, however, it seems that this is also being noticed in America. There are several vlogs in which elite alumni question the system of Ivy League education, particularly when it comes to value for money, concluding that it is more appearance than reality.
The PISA ranking is the same bs.
The ranking ignores that in Germany we have a different course structure in school and place much more value on a broad general education and applicable knowledge than on multiple choice tests and learning by heart.
Another ranking that compares apples with beans is the OECD education ranking, which always devalues Germany because allegedly too few young people graduate from college here compared to other countries. Even African countries rank higher.
According to the OECD criteria, the professions we teach at schools, but the rest of the world at colleges (e.g. midwife, nurse, medical assistant, physiotherapist, etc.) don't count, because these training courses are not taught at universities but at specialized schools andd don't end with a Bachelor's degree but an exam.
In Germany, almost 90% of young people complete a professional qualification, either at universities or via apprenticeships and Berufsschule. Every hairdresser, every cashier, every plumber or builder in Germany has trained for 3 years in practice and in theory at work and in school. In no other country in the world, except of Austria and Switzerland, is this the case. Our Duales Bildungssystem is famous.
das war ja mal eine ansage! woher die begründungsangst? wir alle kochen nur mit wasser mit max. 100 C. vollkommen wurscht von welcher uni das heisse wasser kommt. tum war klasse.
@@aegirmeingott Da ist keine Begründungsangst dahinter, was immer das sein soll.
Aber mich nervt die Idiotie dieser internationalen Rankings, die auch in unseren Medien so verbreitet werden, als seien sie unabhängige, objektive, empirische Untersuchungen. Sind sie aber nicht.
Der typische Bildzeitungsleser oder Netflix-Gucker, glaubt tatsächlich, dass Amerikanische Hochschulen allen anderen in der Welt haushoch überlegen sind, weil er genau das liest und sieht. Würde man aber auch noch andere Kriterien anlegen, wäre es nicht mehr so. Die werden aber von den untersuchenden Instituten nie angelegt werden, denn in den Schlüsselpositionen, sitzen dort überall Absolventen der angeblichen Top Unis. Die sich mit ihrem durch die Rankings aufpolierten Ruf letztlich ihr Geschäft sichern können und ihre Absolventen ihren überzogenen Marktwert. Es geht nur ums Geld und Macht.
Klar, der Kanal ist vielleicht die falsche Adresse für meinen Rant, aber soll ich auf die Frage, warum Deutsche Unis so schlecht in den Rankings abschneiden, sagen, "weil sie halt so schlecht sind". Stimmt doch gar nicht!
Und ja, wir kochen alle mit Wasser. Das vergessen aber manche im Glanze ihrer Absolventenurkunde der Edel-Uni.
@@Frohds14 da geb ich vollkommen recht. mir gehen diese rankings seit über 30 jahren auf die nerven. und wenn es um das geld geht, sind die us-unis beim akquierieren bedeutend besser. das hat wohl mit dem dortigen system zu tun. geld macht kleider und kleider machen leute. unsere unis sind sicherlich nicht schlechter, sonst würden auch viele studenten von ausserhalb nicht zu kommen. ich bin froh, das deutsche bildungssystem genossen zu haben und ich bin stolz darauf, dass es meine tochter auch konnte. so hoffe ich, dass durch die vielfalt der nationalitäten die weltsicht für viele besser wird.
begründungsangst: manche verlieren sich darin, ausreden zu erfinden, anstatt den kern der sache zu benennen.
English is a Germanic language.
Anglo-Saxon, term used historically to describe any member of the Germanic peoples who, from the 5th century ce to the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), inhabited and ruled territories that are today part of England and Wales.
@@christineperez7562 What’s the point? Do you think, I as a German wouldn't have noticed the similarities, when I was learning English. Or did you just want to share your Wikipedia knowledge?
2:25 It is pronounced more like Folk's wagon. Literally it means "people's car".
Another interesting thing about the "Ausbildung" (vocational training) system... In recent years, hybrid models have become more common that combine this sort of practical training and work experience with a university degree.
For example, instead of attending a vocational school, you attend university lectures three days per week and work on the other two. You also get paid like during a regular Ausbildung (I think about 1000€ per month?) and after three years, you have two degrees, one awarded by the chamber of commerce and one by the university.
others handle it differently but they all combine both systems in some way but in general... It's a bit more effort than a regular degree but it's really great for those who want the academical background and opportunities of a university degree but also gain some actual work experience and apply their knowledge.
About Deutsche Mark: I was not very happy to exchange my beloved strong Deutsche Mark into Euro because I was afraid that the Euro would turn out a lot of weaker than the Mark. At that times there was a discussion about how the the new European Central Bank should be organized. Germany won this discussion so that the European Central Bank became very independent from the politics which is on of the reason that the Euro was and is ot that weak. Weaker than the Deutsche Mark, but not as weak as I have been worried.
I've watched every single video on this channel now, this is the last one ;)
After World War II, Germany was completely in ruins and providing yourself or your family with food was a full-time job. There was nothing to buy in the shops because the Reichsmark was a completely insufficient means of payment. It was an endless monkey dance e.g. to get a few eggs from the farmers in the surrounding area or on the black market, what usually meant there exchanging them for something different and it only counted what you had "IN YOUR HAND". Then came the first currency reform with the introduction of the Deutsche Mark. Suddenly the shelves were full again and the so-called German economic miracle began. For the rest, this was only possible because America had waived the Germans all the war reparations. Of course not out of love for people, but because a flourishing trade in Europe also benefited American companies.
Yeah it is exactly that. We build the stuff that is used to build most other stuff. :) So China and all those other Asian powerhouses would not be able to produce anything without our tech. That is something i am kind of proud of.
Greetings from Germany
The very trick on the success is, that Germans treat their workers well. We are working 38-40 h per week, two days off, 28-30 free days, paid sick leave. What does this mean? Healthy workers. Healthy workers are working better. So the productivity per working vour is higher, a german employer usually even gains from these rules. Ok, they are always complaining of course, that's part of the game. When they introduced the minimum wage (10 Euro) they all warned, many would go bankrupt, the prices would rise, many woumd loose tveir jobs etc etc. In fact, the minimum wage made a huge increase to economy. Why? because these minimum worker with 10 Euros instead of 5 or so, the spent the money for buying stuff they needed. So the money was directly reinvested in economy, more people were employed to produce these products, which meant even more people had money to buy more things... When they just introduced 12 Euro as minimum wage the voice of the companies was not too loud, at least there wasn't such an outcry as in 2015.
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FKK means Frei Körper Kultur (Free Body Kultur) in English.
0:57 FKK stands for "Freikörperkultur" (Free Body Culture) and is a form of naturism, not just nudism. Nudism is just taking of your clothes, while naturism is a lifestyle.
The minimum wage as a apprentice is 585 Eur in the moment for the 1. year
Norway doesn't have a national minimum wage even today. Some sectors have negotiated minimum wages, but there's nothing mandated in law for the whole population.
I believe a similar system is used in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
10:35 those Pisa test are not taken seriously here since it won’t affect ur grate and when I had the pisa test a few years ago we where told that we can go home after it so everyone just finished it as fast as possible since it won’t have any effect on ur grate…
As a German I too am surprised we export so much. Living in my region you wouldn’t think we are doing so many exports
Die VisualPolitik Videos gibts auch in Deutsch von Mark Reicher. Auf dem Kanal gehts aber nicht zwangsläufig nur um Deutschland. Ich bin völlig zufällig auf den Kanal gekommen und bin immer wieder positiv überrascht wenn ich deren Videos sehe und jedesmal hab ich an irgend ner Stelle nen Aha-Effekt und lerne was neues dazu.
Wir haben halt viele spezialisierte Firmen, die Weltmarktführer sind und wenn es um spezielle Maschinen geht. Das ist unser Rückgrat
@@grafzahl4698 Das stimmt, die kleinen Maschinen die in die großen Maschinen gehen
Nice.. you found one of the best german channel.. If you want to know, what a lot of german think, view it..
You never heard of "Deutsche Mark"? Listen to "Private Dancer" by Tina Turner! In the bridge part there she sung of some currencies including "Deutsch Mark". 😉
Another thing skipped on the education part is that many trades are so called "geschützte berufsbezeichnung (lit. Protected workdiscription)" wich means if you want to start a trade you have to have a degree in it. You can't just start a plumber bussines without the certuficarions this is so the coustomer can be sure the person doing a job knows what they are doing and preventing even more costly problems.
Another example very good example for this is techer in a kindergarten/nursery if you want to work there you first have to become a so called social assistant that have trained 2 years in basic child care techniques (spotting development issues,planing ahe appropiate activitys and also basic stuff like changing diapers) when you reach that grade you can sork with children up to the age of 6 but you are not allowed to care for them without an "Erzieher(lit. Educator)" overseeing the group.
To become an Educator you have to either be a Social Assistant or can prove working with children in another capacity for 5+ years or have children beyond the age of 12(i think not sure anymore) depending on your home state this training takes another 2 years and an additional 1 year internship with state regulated qualification tests at the end.
Only then are you allowed to lead a kindergarden/nursery group or work with children and young adults up to the age of 21. Also also you will need to do a police background check when you want to work anywhere in the field and failing those basicaly wastes 4-6years of your live.
On the other hand parents giving their children i to the care of a facility can be sure thateven the young early 20s person greeting them a)knows how to handle a child probably/almost certainly better thenthw parents if its their first and b) said person does have a white vest without any major criminal history even if they look kinda suspect
If you like Videos like this you might watch & react to the Geography Now (Channel name) Germany Video. It has more than 7.750.000 views!
It is quite cool and summrizes facts about the country. Some of the Topics are Geography, stereotypes, Spoken Languages, Culture, Nature, Foods, Car producers & much more.
Also there are more Videos about other countries too.
i am working for a small electric contractor firm, August 1st this year, its 36years!
If you want to invest in the chip industrie, look for Bosch, Infineon, Siemens (or ASML (the one compony without all of this wouldn't be possible (from the Netherlands))).
If you buy just one of the shares you have the authorization to patricipate on the annual general meeting, either where it takes place (with breakfast and lunch), or online.
These events are required by stock corporation law.
The VisualPolitik Guy is absolutly great (despite his shirts).
That must be a VisualPolitik thing. Mark Reicher from VisualPolitik Germany has similar shirts. :-)
Wow even me as a German learnd something.
And FKK (frei körper Kultur = Free body culture word by word translation)
what he talks about the training after school is called apprenticeship, in german sometimes called Lehre from lernen (learning). its mostly about 3 years. You have school dys where you learn therory stuff about your proffesion and days where you work in the company, most commen is one week school 2-3 weeks company. And in this schools Berufsschule, they also catch up and teach you the sutff you maybe missed in normal school or you sucked at, mostly math. So after 3 years you get testet and if you suced it, you are qulified to work in that job.
And thats the system for most Job here. Without a proper apprenticeship education, there are not many jobs left to do... may mc donalds...or cleaning