He's referring to the difference in wealth between East and West Germany which is arguably the cause of many political and social issues in Germany. The influx of money into the region could reduce the disparity.
My guess is that you are referring to the difference in wealth between India and Germany. I'm not sure that the pearl clutching was helpful. It would have been better to clarify your assumptions or If indeed you were talking about Germany internal issues then clarify how labor trafficking is a factor here. We'll all be better for it.
> The influx of money into the region could reduce the disparity.
Money in the region would help but I don't see it happening since Poland is just a few km away and a more lucrative target for attracting investments from west Germany due to having less red tape, and lower taxes and regulations.
East Germany can't compete with that so it seems it be forever be this "desert" in between west Germany and Poland where nobody wants to live and invest.
I see this as a fault of the German gov for not making east Germany an attractive place for investors.
This post is literally about building a "large" factory for highly specialized workers in East Germany. The influx will be there, whether that's enough to solve the issue it's a different topic. Anyway, I was referring to the original commenter's intention, not my personal opinion.
>The influx will be there, whether that's enough to solve the issue it's a different topic.
It's not. I've seen this play out before in my poor home town that become a hotspot for tech investments in the span of 10 years.
All those new jobs in the semi industry will require some skills and education, and people who have that kind of skills and education, are (usually) not racists to attack people on the streets based on their color and go to racist protests, but the contrary, tend to be well spoken and liberal.
It will simply increase the inequality between the uneducated racist locals and the well educated foreigners who come for those well paying jobs and raise rent prices and cost of living, throwing more fuel on the racist fire, and pointing the target on the foreigners for being to blame for making life more expensive for the locals.
This issue is solved through education and career re-orientation opportunities, not by bringing some high end jobs that are out of reach for those locals anyway.
Bavaria is right next to the Czech Republic and should have the same problems, yet isn't exactly a 'desert' as you call it.
Large scale outsourcing (and investments) to Poland, the Czech Republic and the rest of Eastern Europe had already happened during the 90s, after that it was China. Everything that can be outsourced in Germany has already been outsourced during the last 30 years, yet the sky hasn't fallen so far.
I've been trying to find this article I read on HN a while ago on "The Germany technology effect". German researcher invents technology, Germans are suspicious of it and refuse to use it, another country picks it up and delivers a lot of value to the world with their name on the tech. Germany, like Scandinavians, has huge safety nets, free Healthcare, education and social housing. I'd say the more comfortable a country is the more reticence they have to adopt new technologies as it can disrupt the balance they stand on.
Fear of technology is not fear of capitalism. That's an immediate American perspective. Liberalism is their current enemy because it's corroding their society. What they fear is new tools for their oppressors to push the imbalance further. Socialist China and USSR had no qualms about using technology against their people and I imagine it scared the hell out of their citizens. This is the difference between many Cyberpunk's and Star Trek's vision of a post scarcity future. In the ones where we understand technology as a social sickness, the balance is tipped inequvocally towards one side and oppressing the masses.
> Socialist China and USSR had no qualms about using technology against their people and I imagine it scared the hell out of their citizens.
USSR was a rather techno-optimist place, and to this day Russia and other post soviet countries have more positive attitude towards technology than most of the Europe. Experience of socialism have produced distrust only to social and political systems, not sciense and technology.
As someone coming from a currently socialist country and married to a post soviet citizen, I somewhat disagree. It's true there was optimism towards infrastructural technology but there is sever distrust to communication technology. As the main form of oppression is misuse of surveillance, people are very uncomfortable with these new technologies.
My guess is that you are referring to the difference in wealth between India and Germany. I'm not sure that the pearl clutching was helpful. It would have been better to clarify your assumptions or If indeed you were talking about Germany internal issues then clarify how labor trafficking is a factor here. We'll all be better for it.