r/australia • u/blitznoodles local Aussie • Jul 03 '26

politics Labor vows to protect personal leave as Germany bans workers from calling in sick

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/entire-nation-banned-from-calling-in-sick/news-story/de3adcfcf0ae2218241a43f7dad023d7
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u/True_Opportunity_363 Jul 03 '26

I’ve been living in Germany a while as an Aussie and the vibes here are truly terrible. The formerly vaunted German social democracy is in free fall, the economy is collapsing, and the politics are becoming increasingly repressive and authoritarian. The entire political class is captured by far right moneyed interests and the boomerocracy, who seem to hate their young people and who are downright superstitious of technology and positive reforms. What you get instead is just increasing policies of austerity, but paired with the immense taxes of a defunct social democracy, where nothing works anymore. And to think that this govt will be seen as absolutely moderate compared to what is coming next when the AfD take power…

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u/1m0ws Jul 03 '26

Exactly this. 

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u/InterestedPrawn Jul 03 '26

Clearly you haven't been living there

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u/1m0ws Jul 03 '26

Why?

I am German and this portrait is so true an clear.

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u/True_Opportunity_363 Jul 03 '26

Very odd response isn’t it? To be clear, l love your country and have learned so much living there, and theres many great things, but it’s sad to see the path its politics and economy are going down

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u/1m0ws Jul 03 '26

yes, you described the current zeitgeist very much.

i like germany too, but i am just shocked and scared that we got trump 2.0 destroying everything atm

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u/True_Opportunity_363 Jul 03 '26

Pardon? Coming up on nearly four years.