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

Man, use your brain…

How many hours you want to work is a free decision. No one has the right to come around and dictate working hours just because the nation must be “competitive” with someone. Must? WANTS TO! And whoever wants can also gladly work more, where’s the problem?

That works because competitiveness is also expressed in the prosperity one voluntarily gives up if necessary. Otherwise, it is regulated by the factor “exchange rate.” If a population renounces increases in unit labor costs, the currency development reflects this through appropriate devaluation/non-appreciation. THAT determines internationally competitive prices. Because competitiveness at this level is a relative concept.

And if companies have the opportunity to gain absolute advantages because they combine, for example, Western technology in Bangladesh or Nigeria with the local wages there, the best labor market in the world with 60-hour weeks won’t help – under German conditions, this or that simply won’t be done.
Anyone who still wants that must also introduce Bangladesh’s standards – great idea.

On volunteering: volunteer care of all kinds prevented the total decline of young people from difficult backgrounds during the corona lockdown. For society, that’s 1000 times more valuable than spending an extra 4 hours stocking shelves at Aldi, so that you can still find strawberries on display at 8 p.m. in winter. Do you actually know how much paid dirty work there is, but unpaid valuable activity?
( but then talk about indoctrination in school, cool! )

So I really amuse myself greatly at you. Ever thought about what would happen if everyone worked like you? Then you stand at the hospital with your broken leg and the sign says: sorry Work-Life Balance.

Well, Schorsch. All that talk about work-life balance, 4-day weeks, and "pushing your limits" sounds all well and good.

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

It’s normal that in saturated affluent societies the "hunger" diminishes and people ask themselves why they should still (or more) work.
However, in the coming decades we will experience that we too will have to do more again for less prosperity.

Because others work 60 hours a week while we consider working over 30. Right in the middle of the skilled labor shortage.
That can’t work.

Well, I really amuse myself with you. Ever thought about what would happen if everyone worked like you? Then you'd stand at the hospital with your broken leg and it would say: sorry Work Life Balance.

Okay, I actually didn’t want to say anything more on this thread and it was already pointless to have reacted to this crap at all – but I have enough doctors and nurses in my family and circle of friends, and quite a few of them have migrated to related fields in recent years because they could no longer reconcile the working hours with a life. My best friend from school went to Norway as a doctor. Better shitty weather in Bergen than being on duty in a German hospital. And yes, that was long before Corona. But as long as we watch the money in the healthcare system going somewhere else… be my guest.
One almost gets the impression here that everyone is supposed to sacrifice themselves for the economy of the fatherland. As if there were only export world champions or the BPI of Haiti.

So, I really have a great time laughing at you. Ever thought about what would happen if everyone worked like you? Then you'd be standing in the hospital with a broken leg and the sign would say: sorry Work Life Balance.

That's exactly what happens when you don't create the conditions that enough people want to work as nurses/doctors want. Whether it's about salary, work-life balance, bureaucratic relief of the job, any combination of the three. Nobody does it because otherwise “the system“ wouldn't work. Because that’s just how a labor market works when labor is a scarce commodity.
And a labor market where labor is not scarce has, as a downside, a standing army of unemployed people in the background. Does anyone want that? Is that prosperity?

And what actually does “working like you” mean?
I work >40h/week. Because I currently want the money that comes with it. And because I find the work with kids/young people meaningful.

Could we afford it if I want to submit a part-time application? Yes.
Can anyone forbid us because care/education would otherwise threaten to collapse? No. Same principle as above.

Apart from that, I can still generate added value for society in unpaid fields, but only if I have free time for it. Listen up: real added value, even though unpaid. Such things exist, they just don’t show up in economics teaching. I did that voluntarily for years anyway. That's why your derogatory comment on volunteering , which naturally placed paid work above unpaid work, bothered me a lot.

To me, it has a bad taste having to analyze Luisa Neubauer. No one reviews an essay from an AfD member either, right?

If you allow critical analysis (and actually nothing else is possible), and as long as a certain methodology of analyzing must be followed, it actually doesn’t matter who analyzes what. But I don’t know the essay or its content – actually it’s about the what, not the who.

I also find it astonishing that anyone is surprised that loyalty towards employers is no longer limitless, which brings me back to my question about age. It all sounds very much like Grandpa telling war stories.

My generation and the younger ones are not stupid and have realized that employer loyalty is no longer what it was in the times of grandparents or parents. My father was laid off during one of the first mass layoffs in the banking sector. My mother was dismissed as a draftsman in her mid-50s because no one wanted to invest in further training for her. Thanks to the public sector, I have so far been spared layoffs, but I have enough friends whose life plans and careers have been disrupted by dismissals following takeovers or insolvencies of their companies.

For whom am I supposed to slave away until 67? For the people and VW, pardon, I mean the fatherland? We don’t have to repeat those mistakes. I’m not a drone.
The moral outrage over the rejection of a completely unhealthy lifestyle doesn’t fade away just with me. Maybe it’s time for some reflection instead of ranting about the youth.

And oh yes, just because KI was not invented here doesn’t mean it cannot be used economically. Office also did not come from Germany and is probably familiar to 90% of people under 70.

Oh please, young generation. Reemtsma Carla once appeared on Precht and was asked by him whether the young generation is also willing to give up something... for example, on the internet and especially streaming.

She hemmed and hawed, "Yes uh. Car!!! And heating!!! And airplane!!!"
But then she had to admit that young people probably won't give up anything.

The emissions from the internet, streaming (?!) and from traffic, air travel, and heating are not remotely comparable. What a straw man argument.
Air travel by such vacuous people is of course the dumbest thing one can do. They rightly got a media backlash for that. Raising fingers and it doesn't even fit in the long-haul plane.

In politics class, of course, speeches/texts from all spectrums are considered. From far left to far right. So that one learns how to handle and classify them. The question is where the scandal is if such a text appears in the final exams. It’s about stylistic devices, pro and con discussions, discussion culture, and not about which personal opinion or final conclusion the student puts at the end. One would know that if one were more involved instead of just listening to sensational headlines about politics class. And if some here had attended the latter longer, we wouldn’t have to read so much trickery here and could maybe calmly discuss gas vs heat pumps in terms of technology, economy, and climate.