18 elementary school kids dead in school shooting 30 minutes from me

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no actually making the best products in the world is keeping germany competitive and using slave labor is keeping china competitive

Germany is able to make the best products in the world because their government invests heavily in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Manufacturing) education. China's government subsidizes its currency and uses it's interference to keep wages down in order to invest more in infastructure. The US was at its wealthiest when the governments of Truman and Eisenhower heavily invested in America and the US went to shit ever since Regan divested in America.

Germany is able to make the best products in the world because their government invests heavily in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Manufacturing) education. China's government subsidizes its currency and uses it's interference to keep wages down in order to invest more in infastructure. The US was at its wealthiest when the governments of Truman and Eisenhower heavily invested in America and the US went to shit ever since Regan divested in America.

the post WW2 boon was only because the rest of the civilized world had been bombed to fucking hell

Germany is able to make the best products in the world because their government invests heavily in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Manufacturing) education. China's government subsidizes its currency and uses it's interference to keep wages down in order to invest more in infastructure. The US was at its wealthiest when the governments of Truman and Eisenhower heavily invested in America and the US went to shit ever since Regan divested in America.

germans dont make the best anything
they might make some of the most sophisticated things from an engineering perspective but they're also very expensive and not generally reliable, which, if we're talking about cars, is the most important thing to most buyers and why Toyota is the number 1 auto manufacturer in the world.

and even as far as German engineering being great goes, it's more a question of business outlook than engineering skill. The American business model is all about planned obsolescence, it's a disposable economy and has been since the end of WW2. It's been about making things cheaply and pumping out more crap that's better later on. If German engineering was really so fantastic the European Space Agency would have put a rover on Mars by now, but they tried once and they failed. NASA has tried 4 times and succeeded 4 times. The engineering skills are there, the business culture of America just doesn't want to use them because it's too expensive.