Blume suggested a number of options to cut labour costs, including cutting holidays to increasing annual working hours, or increasing weekly working hours without any compensation in pay.

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[–] 3 points 25 minutes ago

Or he could drop dead

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  • [–] 3 points 43 minutes ago

    Years of mismanagement made him do this! With the good numbers he singlehandedly will create he will get a bonus so big half of what is created can get to the management!

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  • A tall order from some leech who hasn't done any productive work in all his life while making millions from other people's work.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    LMAO! Coming back to nazi roots? Does this dude want to find a group of people to force to work for free ?

    Tax this fucking guy's wealth. He's way too cozy in his damn ivory tower. #TaxWealthNotWork

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    sure my dude, go ahead, work longer hours

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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Volkswagen can crash and burn what all I care anymore. Bad for the actual people that do the work sure, but we can't support the lifestyle of those CEOs anymore!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    I'd like it better if the workers overthrew those managers and CEOs and took control of the production themselves. That would also lower the cost as those managers take hundreds of millions of Euros every year and give billions to investors who don't even produce anything at all.

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  • [–] 33 points 11 hours ago* (3 children)

    After decades of keeping wages low to the point where we have a low 2-digit percentage in real wage increases in the same time frame that saw +250% real economic output per capita...

    And at a time when the German economy suffers from low domestic demand in particular, caused by low disposable income...

    They know how to improve the economy: by lowering wages

    Fuck off to your alternative reality where "the economy" is synonymous with the insane wealth increases of the upper <1% at the expense of everyone else!

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  • [–] 1 point 11 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

    German neoliberals (which most CEOs of our larger corporations are) and empirical data don't really mesh well. It's why most of them still clutch the neoclassical "school" of economics, which has zero empirical data behind its basic assumptions.

    If only there was a mechanism for new companies to challenge and outcompete dinosaurs. Unfortunately, the regulatory capture emerging from capitalism and explicitly supported by our electorate means barriers of entry are drawn such that it's almost impossible to challenge entrenched wealth, unless being backed by rival entities of comparable wealth.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    Before you all grab your forks and pitchforks, keep in mind that in Germany a workday is 7 hours (now you can grab 'em).

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  • [–] 15 points 11 hours ago

    All I ever hear from Volkswagen is mass layoffs. Asking for longer work hours is bad already but with this background itβ€˜s pure evil. Theyβ€˜re evil and if they can only stay competitive being evil theyβ€˜re a net negative for society and should just disappear.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Let's hope they don't introduce China's 996 working culture as its Chinese rivals do ...

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  • [–] -4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Well...

    The company was literally created by the nazis...

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  • [–] 0 points 1 hour ago

    What was the motto on concentration camps?

    Do you not see how that phrase would be relevant to:

    We're making our workers work more, for the same money

    Like, I'd thank you for asking a question to learn what you didn't know, but it seems like you were asking rhetorically because you couldn't image there was a valid connection...

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