Good. We need a steady reduction of the economic volume.

There is a huge difference between not being allowed to do something, and deciding not to do something.

I don’t have a car (like most people in my town). So not allowing car ownership would be ok?

Maybe 2.1 billion was cheap enough to kill a competitor?

Germany and Italy are filled with monuments regarding their dark past (have never been to France and Spain and only very briefly to Belgium so I can’t judge). I really don’t know what you are talking about.

There are other destinations in Europe. Who needs the UK? I used to go there occasionally, in the past, but if they don’t want visitors anymore… so be it.

Proves their point! He is one of those criminal refugees himself, isn’t he? First hand knowledge.

Free people as in free from exploitation, free from polluted environments, free from unsafe work conditions? Then I’m with you.

Germany (city of Potsdam)

In my (over 1,000 year old) city, blocking several streets with bollards and massively reducing street parking worked just fine so far. As did curbing traffic coming in, with longer “red” phases at traffic lights for cars entering, when sensors detect too many cars in the city.

you can come to terms and settle with “good enough”

Exactly. My neighbour went shopping today. I will have to go tomorrow, but why should my goal be to bring home more groceries than her?

The economy is a tool to supply people with stuff. But it’s not a competition. If I have enough food I don’t need more. Enough is good enough for me, regardless if my neighbour bought more. Or less.

How far is the “forseeable” future? It has to be safe for longer than mankind has existed. Since we don’t even know very much about civilisations as recent as the stone age, I don’t trust today’s storage people.

It’s about 40 years since I left university, and I’m afraid I do have a slight idea. And I don’t like it. At all.

True. Commercial interests should not have any place, in any university, in any shape and form.

A student was distressed? Oh, poor little creature. Has to be handled with care, wrapped in cotton wool?

Grow up, student!

Yes

Sometime soon they’ll hide the “break” function in some sub-menu of the “speed” tree, to replace the break pedal.

Of course there’s a reason. It’s called fraud. If they sell not so “green” products, then greenwashing is fraud, plain and simple.

They are still allowed to sell those not so green products for cheap, but they are no longer allowed to outright lie about the colour.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Energy_statistics_-_latest_trends_from_monthly_data#Gas_consumption

Looking at monthly data from January 2022 to December 2022 (Figure 11), with the exception of March and April, consumption has been consistently below the 2017-2022 average of the respective months of those years. Between January and July 2022, natural gas consumption in the EU varied between 1 938 Petajoules (PJ) in January and 785 PJ in July, indicating a monthly decrease overall, even before the target of 15% gas reduction was set up

While the gas reserves are higher than ever (https://www.consilium.europa.eu/de/infographics/gas-storage-capacity/)

Absolutely no reason to worry about supply, cold homes, or lights going out.

Just like it not your responsibility what your neighbour has, what your parents had, or what your children will have.

So, all that out of the way: what exactly is missing in your life - without looking around you. You talk about “making it big”, in your other post. What’s too small in your life? And how would something bigger make it better? A million in the bank? How would that make your life better? Would you eat more? Heat up your house to 69 °C just because you can? Buy a Bugatti? That will take you from point A to point B just like any other car, or a train.

You refuse to compare our insanely high standard of living to the rest of the world. Why do you seem to compare it to the situation of others in Germany? Why do you care?

Do you really trust them? I don’t.