Why don't construction prices go down?

Who invented the heat pump? Well, at least an Austrian is German-speaking. Who invented both the gasoline and diesel engines? By the way, the question also applies to the electric motor on a larger scale? Who invented mp3? Who invented the printing press? Who invented the light bulb? No, Edison came along 25 years later. Who invented the telephone? No, it wasn’t Bell. And lastly, two very important things: Who invented our modern beer and also Aspirin for the next morning? Just a few examples of how even individual people from the small nation of 85 million can massively change the world...

But all that was a long time ago, and the concern now is that in the long term nothing will come from Germany for the time being. For various reasons.

That was quite a long time ago … and the concern right now is that in the long run nothing more will come from Germany for the time being …. For various reasons

It was actually just about the comment "we as a small people can't do anything big for the world anyway," that this simply isn't true. Inventions could have come from other countries as well.
But even currently there is good news from Germany. Most recently the first mRNA vaccine worldwide – Corona...
Or also in patent applications, Germany is still way ahead. We are still, for example, in 2nd place worldwide in university patents (in absolute numbers) – only the USA is ahead of us. Just to name one statistic. We are still capable and good. Not everything is just black and dark gray in Germany and our economy.

We can still do something and we are good. It’s not all just black and dark gray in Germany and our economy

But currently we feel like we are resting.. the big innovations don’t seem to exist anymore, it’s just somehow being barely kept alive. When I experience daily what goes on in school and at work, oh dear. Maybe some individual areas are still top but the big picture will soon crash.

But currently we are kind of resting.. it feels like there are no big innovations anymore, everything is just somehow being kept alive in a makeshift way. When I experience daily what’s going on in school and at work, oh dear. Maybe some areas are still top, but the big picture will blow up soon.

And I can no longer understand this doomsday mood. Everyone just complaining, everything is bad with us. Where does that actually come from? Sure, we’ve had better times, but also worse ones. A little optimism and a “let’s pull the cart out of the mud” mentality would suit us quite well too.

It gets really funny when the answer to our problems for almost 30% of the population is supposed to be “Mister back to the past” Merz.

It only gets really funny when the answer to our problems is supposed to be "Mister back to the past" Merz for nearly 30% of the population.

Here are some current forecasts. 37% is not nearly.

It only gets really funny when the answer to our problems for nearly 30% of the population is supposed to be "Mister back to the past" Merz.

Does it get better if Mister I blow money on everything but don't save (Scholz) or Mister I save the world but have no idea about the economy (Habeck) or even a right-populist "lesbian" who prefers to live in Switzerland (Weidel) are the solution?