[barpet]

No short term benefits but a lot of long term benefits. Germany has one of the largest aging population in Europe. They have just added a lot of people to their population and can use them however they like. Do not worry about germans they always knew how to screw with people.

Just look at the number of factories that operate outside of Germany and how many people they require in order to keep the machinery running. I do not hate them. I do not detest them. I am just scared at how they run things. And other countries seem to follow because they also want to take advantage of it.

[mrtree]

I fail to see how having people translates into having jobs, skilled labor, etc. This crisis is about automation, there is no need for more people. It is also well-accepted that migrants contribute less to the economy, either due to lower wages or simply because they are unemployable.

[majewsky]

The largest chunk of jobs is already in the service industry, where the amount of jobs tends to scale linearly with the amount of customers.

[barpet]

Germany needs new germans. Or people that will speak german. You can't automate everything. Not yet. A lot of automation today is TOO expensive. Requires too much maintenance and some other stuff cannot be automated at all. Or are you telling me that wiping old people's asses is something that has been already solved by building robots ?

[candiodari]

Currently the government mostly seems concerned with wiping old people's assets. Not just in Germany.

(the main side-effect of the supportive economic policy we've had since is destroying pension savings by transferring wealth into large corporations)