Bespoke translation by yours truly. Original article [A] by Danisch
On the subtle economic difference between Germans and migrants.
I would like to pose a detail question to the room.
Unfortunately I don't perfectly recall where I've seen it, but this week and last week, I have seen several reports, TV programs, complaints about someone somewhere figuring out that [building homes] in Germany has become so expensive that even a middle class, German, normal double income earner family has no chance of buying their own house.
When I was traveling in Australia, back then, locals were complaining and I've been told personally as well, that living there, in relation to income, is so expensive that people regularly, immediately after school and job training, that is, in their early 20s, have to buy a house in order to have paid it off in full by the time they retire (although the retirement age is or was lower there than here [in Germany]). Which leads to there being relatively few renters, because everybody buys a house, because they only have one chance and don't want to miss it. [note: in case you didn't know, Germany is a nation of renters, it is only a minority of Germans who own their own house] Which is astounding because Australian houses are very similar to American ones: Some of them look quite fancy, but ultimately they are just simple dressed up wooden constructions, actually wooden huts, without a basement, without central heating, very simple homes. Towards the Outback, they like having them on a kind of stilts, 1 meter above the ground, with stairs, so that not as much vermin and snakes, spiders and so come in. There are also really solid ones out of stone or concrete, but normal citizens can't afford those. And barely any land, often just a few square meters of backyard and a driveway in front, and maybe a garage, but on the outside, just enough space so you can walk between the house and the outer wooden fence. When you're in the kitchen and cooking, with the stove typically being at the kitchen window, you can often look into your neighbor's pan because he has the same living situation and the kitchen windows are facing each other with a small distance in between. And - like in America - huge settlements with several, geometrically parallel roads full of identical houses like those because - just like American houses and cars - they are not made to order at the buyer's request, but they first build a large number of identical houses/cars and then sell them to those who want to buy one. But it was true (back then): If you work normally and full time, you can, if you start early, afford your own home. Now, it's supposedly more expensive.
In Germany, it is allegedly the case now that normal earners in their lifetime's work cannot afford their own real estate anymore.
And if I think about it, and I don't really doubt that statement much, a question is running through my brain:
If a German, grown up here and not in need of integration, willing to work, able to work, working, and also well-educated double earning family is supposedly no longer able to purchase a house to live in, with their entire lifetimes' work - how are migrants, who have nothing, who have not learned a trade, who can't speak the language, who are not seriously able to work for years, but whom we are giving an apartment or a house, ever going to be a positive for the economy, that is, more work and benefit for the economy (in addition to themselves) that is able to amortize just the cost of housing - let's not even talk about sustenance, healthcare, and education?
Nonsense, "more valuable than gold" and "are going to pay our pensions".
I can't recall that this question has ever been discussed anywhere in the media or public broadcasting and presented to politicians.
I got the impression that they were proceeding like business as usual in Marxism: Don't ask. Don't think. Just do. The thing that is inevitable according to ideology then comes up by itself. You just need to create the situation that conforms to ideology, then the paradise will necessarily appear from thin air somehow.
The migration benefit question
On the subtle economic difference between Germans and migrants.
I would like to pose a detail question to the room.
Unfortunately I don't perfectly recall where I've seen it, but this week and last week, I have seen several reports, TV programs, complaints about someone somewhere figuring out that [building homes] in Germany has become so expensive that even a middle class, German, normal double income earner family has no chance of buying their own house.
When I was traveling in Australia, back then, locals were complaining and I've been told personally as well, that living there, in relation to income, is so expensive that people regularly, immediately after school and job training, that is, in their early 20s, have to buy a house in order to have paid it off in full by the time they retire (although the retirement age is or was lower there than here [in Germany]). Which leads to there being relatively few renters, because everybody buys a house, because they only have one chance and don't want to miss it. [note: in case you didn't know, Germany is a nation of renters, it is only a minority of Germans who own their own house] Which is astounding because Australian houses are very similar to American ones: Some of them look quite fancy, but ultimately they are just simple dressed up wooden constructions, actually wooden huts, without a basement, without central heating, very simple homes. Towards the Outback, they like having them on a kind of stilts, 1 meter above the ground, with stairs, so that not as much vermin and snakes, spiders and so come in. There are also really solid ones out of stone or concrete, but normal citizens can't afford those. And barely any land, often just a few square meters of backyard and a driveway in front, and maybe a garage, but on the outside, just enough space so you can walk between the house and the outer wooden fence. When you're in the kitchen and cooking, with the stove typically being at the kitchen window, you can often look into your neighbor's pan because he has the same living situation and the kitchen windows are facing each other with a small distance in between. And - like in America - huge settlements with several, geometrically parallel roads full of identical houses like those because - just like American houses and cars - they are not made to order at the buyer's request, but they first build a large number of identical houses/cars and then sell them to those who want to buy one. But it was true (back then): If you work normally and full time, you can, if you start early, afford your own home. Now, it's supposedly more expensive.
In Germany, it is allegedly the case now that normal earners in their lifetime's work cannot afford their own real estate anymore.
And if I think about it, and I don't really doubt that statement much, a question is running through my brain:
If a German, grown up here and not in need of integration, willing to work, able to work, working, and also well-educated double earning family is supposedly no longer able to purchase a house to live in, with their entire lifetimes' work - how are migrants, who have nothing, who have not learned a trade, who can't speak the language, who are not seriously able to work for years, but whom we are giving an apartment or a house, ever going to be a positive for the economy, that is, more work and benefit for the economy (in addition to themselves) that is able to amortize just the cost of housing - let's not even talk about sustenance, healthcare, and education?
Nonsense, "more valuable than gold" and "are going to pay our pensions".
I can't recall that this question has ever been discussed anywhere in the media or public broadcasting and presented to politicians.
I got the impression that they were proceeding like business as usual in Marxism: Don't ask. Don't think. Just do. The thing that is inevitable according to ideology then comes up by itself. You just need to create the situation that conforms to ideology, then the paradise will necessarily appear from thin air somehow.
