Quote (Skinned @ 20 Aug 2019 15:47)
You should post a timeline of German socialistic development, ending in your present day high quality of living.
West Germany has never been socialistic - we have always been teetering between free market capitalism and social democracy. Essentially, we, just like France, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands etc., are a capitalistic society, just with higher taxes and a more generous welfare state than the US or the UK.
The true socialism we had on German soil, in former East Germany, has caused huge economic devastation, and even 30 years after the German reunification, the East is still lagging behind a ton in terms of GDP, productivity, unemployment rates and various other metrics.
Researchers have estimated that the Reunification with formerly socialist East Germany has cost West Germany roughly
€2 billion from 1990-2014.
And that's for a country which had a population of just 16 million, had only been socialist for 45 years, and which was among the most competitive economies in the world with tremendous human capital when the socialists took charge.
So GTFO with your talk about "socialistic development ending in high quality of living".
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 20 2019 08:07am