Installation of a gas heating system in new construction 2023/2024

Irony? Such high school graduation exam tasks do not exist… in physics there is nothing based on any kind of essays.

But you are not properly informed. High school graduation exam Lower Saxony subject Politics Economy. You wrote that students would be taught the methodical way of thinking or independent questioning. And I said based on essays from climate extremists. Maybe your physics students learn to think for themselves, but if they are also enrolled in Politics Economy, that’s probably the end of it.

Exactly, with final exams based on essays by climate extremists…

The young generation wants to do something for
the environment, I do too.
But in return, I have also learned what to do for my money. 4-day week, work-life balance, money for sticking to things... All nice and good, but that doesn’t build houses… they just won’t notice it immediately, but only in 25 years or maybe even 50 when all prosperity is gone.

So far I have only been silently reading because I hoped to find something about gas heating and I see no added value in such off-topic discussions. The amount of nonsense and pseudoscience spread here surpasses some Facebook articles. I thought this was about construction topics?

I would be interested to know how old people are who write and judge like this. Just roughly. Mid-50s? Older?
I am in my early 40s, my wife as well. We have two children, one in elementary school, one starting school. So far I have seen no left-extremist school materials in Baden-Württemberg. And no thanks to a nationalist upbringing if that is the dream. I prefer to see my children raised with education that prepares them for the next decades and not for a life in the 1970s. Or the 1950s.

And yes, I find the concept of life-work balance very sensible, since we both work, currently 100% and 80%, and we are reaching our limits. I have the impression that only people who have no children or who live on a single income rail against life-work balance. And I am not talking about the money aspect now. A day only has 24 hours and despite family support, we can’t fit everything in that modern everyday life demands. My wife’s employer now wants full office presence again; after all, why else was the building built :rolleyes: My employer wants to allow home office only one day per week. We almost long for Corona times and we will have to scale back all volunteering and sports activities because otherwise it won’t work. My wife will probably have to reduce her hours and I can already hear the boss whining.

If this country ruins its economy, it will be because of the "we’ve never done it that way" and "where would we end up" mentality. The economically successful countries are not those that do business like it was 1980.

You are not properly informed. Abitur exam Lower Saxony subject Politics Economics. You wrote that students would be taught the methodical way of thinking or independent questioning. And I said based on essays by climate extremists. Maybe your physics students learn to think for themselves, but if they are also enrolled in Politics Economics, that’s probably over with it.

I can only fully speak about my own subjects. But it is completely normal in politics, history, social studies, etc. to read texts in which the author expresses a certain attitude. It MUST be that way. In school there is the operator of "evaluating" or "taking a position": the students are supposed to take a position towards the attitudes of others and thereby develop their own position. Rejection is just as allowed as agreement or indifference. Requirement: one must be able to justify this. But I find it normal and important that on the one hand one compares speeches by Nazi figures and on the other hand deals with essays by, for example, Rosa Luxemburg. In German classes one also reads belles-lettres literature that reflects attitudes which are no longer held today. Among these are books considered world literature. So, as long as you cannot tell me WHAT exactly should be done with which text in an Abitur exam, everything sounds quite normal. Dealing with indoctrinating material is an educational goal—and rightly so.

Well Schorsch. It's all good and well with work-life balance, a 4-day week, and "reaching one's limits."

The problem is that we don't live alone on this planet, and neither Americans, Chinese, Indians, nor Brazilians follow us in this regard. And whether we like it or not, we are in competition with them.

It is normal that in saturated affluent societies the "hunger" subsides and one wonders what to actually work (more) for. However, in the coming decades we will experience that we will have to do more again for less prosperity.

Because others work 60 hours a week while we are thinking about 30. In the middle of the skilled labor shortage. That cannot work.

Well, Schorsch. All that stuff about work-life balance, a 4-day week, and "reaching your limits" is all well and good. The problem is only that we don’t live alone on this planet, and neither Americans nor Chinese, Indians, or Brazilians follow us in that regard. And whether we like it or not, we are in competition with them. It is normal that in saturated wealthy societies, the "hunger" diminishes and one wonders why one should still work (more). However, in the coming decades, we will experience that we will have to do more again for less prosperity. Because others work 60 hours a week while we are still thinking about 30+. Right in the middle of the skilled labor shortage. That can’t work.

If you want to be competitive with countries like China, India, Brazil, and the USA, do you also want to adopt their human rights violations and environmental problems? Due to automation and AI, it will no longer be necessary in the future to work 40+ hours as in early industrial times. And stop whining about the skilled labor shortage. It may be real in craft trades, but in many industries employers are also driving away workers themselves. See my wife's boss, who at a pure office operation that worked wonderfully remote for the past two years, now insists that everyone must be back in the office full time.

Through automation and AI, it will no longer be necessary in the future to work 40+ hours like in early industrial times.

If(!) this happens in the foreseeable future, we will need a completely new social and tax system plus closed borders to the area that follows the same path.