| > I keep maintaining that Germany is much much better country overall simply because it's not centralised as UK is centralised in London. That's interesting. In Germany the decentralization is considered a main reason for the many problems on modernization in bureaucracy and other public areas. > Those are so so misleading into making people believe that Germany or mainland Europe is a wasteland that missed out on technology. I think the reason is more that Germany was an early adopter of many technologies, but was then trapped on old infrastructure and workflows, while some others simply failed for various reasons. So it's more an upgrade-problem, then "installation"-problem. > Europe's core problems all come down to cheap energy availability and that's solvable. It's much easier to solve than stuff like widespread social problems like decline due to drug use or political instability. In theory yes, in reality it goes hand in hand. Germany for example is cursed by people who poison the progress since a long time. And the harm is showing since a while now. Ironically, it usually only gets better when something catastrophically happened, like Fukushima, or the War with Russia. |
They probably have a point. Both structures have pros and cons, I believe.