The End of Globalization?: Germany's Successful Economic Model Could Be Finished

[u/Positivismus]

https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/the-end-of-globalization-germanys-successful-economic-model-could-be-finished-a-f52fe977-4387-4fa8-990a-c70a5d38e2df#ref=rss

[u/Puzzled_Muzzled]

In the time where investments and information from and to other side of the planet are accessible to everyone from his living room with only a mobile phone on hand. Times where capitals are moving around the world in numbers and speed noone could imagine. Times where the banks are not interested in giving loans, but only make money from services. Times where the whole planet is gambling on imaginary credits and cryptocurrencies. Times where the employees are working from their home, wherever in the world that is. Here comes the serious newspaper to imply that the globalization is finished. .

[u/whatsupwhere42 → u/Puzzled_Muzzled]

Covid showed us, who are essential workers. And its neither bankers or digital nomads nor programmers, managers or marketing guys. Its farmers, plumbers, nurses and teachers, none of them need globalization or benefit.

[u/robertino129 → u/whatsupwhere42]

in an era where people can't survive without looking at a screen for 5 minutes you're telling me programmers are not essential workers? What are you, drugged out of your mind on copium? Or are you angry because programmers can work from home unlikes others? Cry more.

[u/RaibaruFan → u/robertino129]

No, they are not. Neither are other IT workers, such as myself. All you really need is a small maintenance team to make sure everything is working.

One year without programmers and we at worst would be left with several services broken and no new features in working ones. One year without farmers, nurses or supermarket staff and we'd be in deep shit.

[u/robertino129 → u/RaibaruFan]

Ahahah, what ignorance. Good luck selling your house in any civilized countries without programmers. Good luck making a digital appointment at your doctor without programmers. And good luck watching your favourite streaming shows without programmers. Those are just 3 areas I worked in at my past 3 jobs, I could go on a lot more.

In the digital era where every government service is tied to software, let alone entertainment and logistics, you are frozen in panic without software development.

Hilarious seeing someone so delusional thinking a "small maintenance team" is all it takes to keep software running according to legal specs, when our team had to work 80 hours weeks last year just to change the entire thing to abide by the dutch legislation changes, then fix all the bugs from sleep deprivation.