[dna_polymerase]

> German universities are indeed world-class. It's not like uneducated people can export this much.

We export modern versions of the same motors we did for decades. Took one south african immigrant to overthrow our car companies plans for years.

> The university rankings do not take into account that research in Germany happens at Fraunhofer or Max Planck, which are door to door to their respective university and have shared staff. If all their papers would be taken into account, the rankings would change dramatically.

Quality over quantity. The bullshit those institutes publish regularly is laughable at best.

The country you is describe doesn't exist anymore. Germany failed to invest in education, now that there is a pandemic it gets crystal clear: we slept through 30 years of innovation and progress and looking at the current talking points in Berlin I am afraid we are still asleep at the wheel.

[allendoerfer]

I think you are massively overestimating the rest of the world. The perfectionism shown in your comment is exactly why the world (correctly or incorrectly) trusts German products.

[dna_polymerase]

I did not make any claim about the rest of the world. And the fact that you try to dodge the substance of the argument and instead try to talk trash about other nations shows everything wrong in the western world, but especially Germany.