Will construction material prices increase? Customs madness?

the mix of characters is no different than anywhere else.

Among teachers in general: yes
Among natural scientists and especially physicists: no

The specific training enables (or enforces) a type of thinking that is highly detached from one's own emotional state. Simply because we have the fundamental science of the measurable part of the world and yet can hardly use common sense in it. Therefore, one learns to distrust common sense, including one's own. Normally.
It makes thinking slow, but also less prone to certain cognitive errors.
Normally.

Your blood pressure. Get less upset, refute more. Just the fact that absolute numbers are used instead of relative ones when comparing Year X with today. Or that no one asks where the 140 billion pension fund subsidies go. In fact, a drop in demand and thus lower revenues in the economy arise immediately when things are simply saved. What is shocking is not the mindset of individuals, but how connectable perceived truths are and to whom. Among the likes is also an alleged teacher colleague with a full NW degree, meaning learned analytical thinking instead of opinion based on feelings.
Getting upset brings nothing. First be surprised, then argue. By now, I am no longer surprised by anything and go straight to step 2.

Why would a drop in demand occur if the pension fund subsidy were invested in infrastructure?

Among teachers in general: yes
Among natural scientists and especially physicists: no
The specific training enables (or enforces) a way of thinking that is highly detached from one’s own emotional state. Simply because we have the fundamental science of the measurable part of the world, and yet there is almost nothing in it that can be dealt with using common sense. That is why one learns to distrust it, including one’s own. Normally.

Of my teachers, the natural scientists — especially those who can explain the "calculation method" that feelings are "actually just chemistry" — were usually the most religious (and linguists regularly claimed that their science was more logical than mathematics).

Getting upset doesn't help. First wonder, then argue. I no longer wonder about anything and go straight to step 2.

Yes, if it weren’t for the little word "if" (and the fine line between counter-argument and feeding trolls).

I’m continually amazed at how well it "works" without losing its effect: someone pushes the boundary between "different opinion" and "talking nonsense" without the effort for argumentative persuasion declining > gradually at least the number of patient counter-preachers decreases > a clone or identical twin in spirit (or the same person with a new member name) appears, and suddenly the troll feeders pick up speed again like at the end of a highway construction zone. According to Murphy’s Law, usually when my scale’s display shows "popcorn canceled" again.

I am always amazed at how well it "works" without losing its effect: someone pushes the boundary between "having a different opinion" and "talking nonsense" without the effort to argue persuasively decreasing > gradually at least the number of patient counter-preachers diminishes > a clone or identical twin in spirit (or the same person with a new member name) appears, and suddenly the troll feeders pick up speed again like at the end of a highway construction site. According to Murphy's Law, usually when my scale's display shows "Popcorn canceled" again.

You have a point, yet I find the counterpoint important: if the nonsense written is relatable because some feel it “totally hardcore,” you have to oppose it. The world has developed with every increase in complexity into one that needs more reason and less emotional opinion-sharing, simply because many relevant connections are not accessible to practical common sense. It's annoying, but that's how it is.

Why does a drop in demand occur if the pension fund subsidy were invested in infrastructure?

Then not at all, then only something else is demanded. However, it is often talked about savings, not shifting of expenditures. Because many confuse the state budget with a private household and want to apply the healthy rules of the latter to the former.

Among teachers in general: yes
Among scientists in natural sciences and especially physicists: no
The specific training enables (or forces) a way of thinking highly detached from one’s own emotional state. Simply because we have the basic science of the measurable part of the world and yet can hardly do anything with common sense in it. That’s why one learns to distrust it, including one’s own. Normally.
Makes thinking slow, but also less prone to certain thinking errors. Normally.

I can accept that as well as the previous criticism or hints, thank you!
In fact, I always like reading profound explanations on all kinds of topics, be they technical, financial, or otherwise computational, even from you. That would not be possible for me in this way because I understand too little of it, of which I am also aware.
I have firm trust in science and am always amazed at who or how confidently some people here comment on such topics, even though it is easily recognizable that they only possess rather shallow hearsay knowledge.
My own topic is more the human component, which also occupied me professionally with many extremes, and in this context, I also use my mouth as the other at least understands it, even if it perhaps changes just as little. So I respond with my means in a clearly possible way, without it moving me much, because we had to learn that again in our profession.
Precisely for that reason I liked (and partly still like) the forum, exactly because everyone contributed their positive components, and I am of course sad about the partly neglectful deterioration of togetherness in here, when you speak of "sorting out people" or label retirees as a generation responsible for the "drowning of youth."
Certainly these are just stupid words, nevertheless I name them and do not let them stand there just like that, and gladly name their users concretely and repeatedly, in order to out this as the terrible thing it is.