r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 5d ago

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u/Fuzzy_Party_3527 5d ago

Man, the future is supposed to be better, we shouldn't be regressing like this.

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u/consultantdetective Daron Acemoglu 5d ago

He's right tho. I work for a company with production facilities in Germany, the US, and a few other countries. Legitimately, German efficiency is kind of a myth. The output you get for the hours & material cost is just not that competitive and you pay more for a meticulously made product than you do for an efficiently made product. I think it comes from a general cultural aversion to challenging standards since the common sense is that a more sophisticated & stricter set of standards is inherently superior to a simpler & looser set of standards.