[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)