These fucks
I don’t disagree with the point of this post, but the image of the chainsaw in the article was completely incorrectly captioned.
It is actually a photo of an electric powered (not electric start) 2 man chainsaw (not one man) that weights 48 kg (106 lb).
So is the author not careful, or did a slop machine make it?
Also I’ve never seen of an electric start chainsaw in person and there were only a couple models in the 70s that made it to consumers and had weird removable batteries.
All of that CEO bonus money could provide free healthcare for the whole world!
all corporations are bad
all billionaires are bad
Closeout sale all billionaires must go!
Due to tragic, predictable and entirely preventable circumstances we are currently OVERSTOCKED on billionaires and they’re passing the misery on to YOOOOUUUUU!
Are you broke? Depressed? Working your ass off and still struggling to make ends meet? Then you my friend just need to take out the billionaire class! It’s free and good for you! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE???
I call for us all to quit, and go back to the trees.
Bonobos have it all figured out. Eat, sex, sleep and repeat. We should all aspire to be more like them
Now we need to muster all our strength for further reforms that will then generate tangible investment and growth impulses.
A+ at saying a lot of words that only have meaning to a select class and no one else.
Replace ceo’s with ai.
Mmmm, no. Obliterate all ceo’s AND ai.
They STIHL think that more hours lead to more productivity. All I know is no pay leads to finding alternative pay.
No, they don’t. They are just openly lying at this point because they get high on fucking over people.
Pensions, social security and health care are all linked to wages. Proposing less pay for the work you do to save the welfare state is like proposing to smash your head with a hammer to increase cogntive abilities.
That actually sounds pretty accurate.
The cruelty is the point, not the increased productivity. Far-right work moralists think I should slice open my hand, not in an attempt at self harm, but while working with a faulty machine, to prove I am a man and better than the non-workers.
If the productivity is dictated primarily by machine hours it does, same with security guards that are mostly there for emergencies.
Not exactly; fatigue affects pretty much everything. If I don’t get enough sleep, I just watch cartoons at work. I’ll take my time to fix a machine that can flatline me if I make a mistake. Being unpaid only fuels my motivation to not do anything and in certain cases watch it all crumble.
Also the security guard example is an interesting choice to reference. You know what they do? Look pretty and call the PD. Unless it’s special detail, it’s generally for appearance. Even in emergencies, the liability cost isn’t worth it as well as jail time and court costs. I hate to break it to you but the security guard isn’t going to stick their neck out for you unless they want to kill or are extremely altruistic.
I mostly meant emergency as in does nothing 99% of the time and the other one percent does something that requires almost no skill other than remaining calm.
“an overregulated economy, high energy costs, high labour costs, high taxes and a declining level of education and qualifications.”
Yeah. Because self-regulation and no taxes certainly worked for, for example, America’s skills and education level.
I find it amusing the CEO of a company whose employees - at a bare minimum - are awash in chainsaws has any opinion on their pay that is not in line with the employee idea of fair wages
I find it amusing they aren’t afraid of us anymore. Give it more time, we’ll get them afraid again. When their greed reaches the tipping point a flood of luigis will come for them.
Well he’s expecting chainsaws. He’ll be ready for that.
I was utterly unready for this.
Then again, I’m not a CEO.
…In the past eight years we have lost around 15 percent of our industrial output. Month after month Germany is losing around 15,000 industrial jobs
I mean, keep deporting your workforce totally works. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
It works for them, look at how fat those pockets are
Makin ya slave labor that’s all
Shit stain human
I’ll add it to the list of reasons I’m a Husqvarna man.
I’m sure the timing is very coincidental and has nothing to do with the recent AFD win
People like this will happily burn the world so that they can rule over the ashes
He said the same thing a month ago: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmer-nicolas-stihl-35-stunden-woche-nicht-mehr-zeitgemaess-a-a69431e3-905a-4c8a-ba45-abdaa6dfceff
But I don’t get it. Wealth doesn’t really increase by working more. For skilled jobs, working longer means you are producing the same output in more time and feel worse. If you want to increase production, you need to invest in research and technology.
Hundreds of years ago, one farmer could feed a hand full of people, today it’s probably thousands, thanks to modern technology. If the farmers back then would work twice as much, they could still only feed a hand full of people, but they would probably die a lot sooner.
Shush! You are not supposed to think about massively increasing productivity.
If you realize that one worker’s real economic output is now 10 times as high as a few decades ago, you won’t be properly scared about their screaming of demographics and how it’s totally unsustainable that now one worker has to “pay” for more than 3 times the amount of non-working people.
Wait? So real economic output per capita is up by ~ +250% and still we somehow don’t have any money to keep up with health care or social costs and can’t even afford to keep our infrastructure from crmbling away? I wonder were all that money is going…
I imagine the same thing which finished off heavy industry in the U.K. is hurting DE a lot also, high energy prices.
Less of a direct effect on assembly businesses, but for heavy production where your process is largely to convert energy to product its devestating. Then you lose those job while also having to pay another county for the product. It fucked us over here for sure
Yeah, that’s the fairy tale they try to tell us because it sounds logical if you don’t look closer.
In reality those high energy prices are just a narrative (at least for Germany). Heavy industry pays average amounts in European comparison. It’s the private end consumer who’s getting poor from all the taxes and fees to subsidize cheap energy for the industry. Those are the same people whose real wages increased by ~25% in the last few decades while their real economic output in the same time frame increased by ~250%. And all that money is funneled off to a few ultra rich while pensions, social benefits and health care are linked to the stagnating wages.
The actual problem of Germany’s economy is that they systematically fucked over Germans for decades to optimise their trade output. So now when global demand is shifting there is no domestic demand to compensate because they are all fucking poor (compare: average wealth with median wealth) and squeezed by constantly increasing costs that in many cases just increase the profit margins of the very same companies they already subsidize with their taxes.
Added some charts for comparison (data from 2024-2025):
What fairy tale? I was making an assumption based on watching the industry die in the UK for the reasons backed up by your graph.
Looks like Germany is different from what I assumed
The fairy tale German politicians and the media tell 24/7 of how high energy costs for the industry and much too high wages are the problem. And this is after all about a German CEO calling for lower wages “to safeguard Germany’s prosperity and welfare state”.
When in reality Germany, so the other 99,999999% but him, are struggling because of low wages that in no way represent their economic output, high and rising energy costs –exactly so the industry gets lower costs– and with the pension, social and health system not looking sustainable, but again not because of the delusions this guy and his other rich friends are spreading, but because they are linked to stagnating wages. Suggesting more less and lower pay so his profit margins go up and the country is more fucked is simply insane… or just shameless. Yeah, probably the latter.
Wasn’t meant personally in any way. As I said, it sounds logical without a closer look. So I told how it looks from the inside.
Both can be true at the same time, we have all those same issues too, the gov enabled the rich (and the elected officials themselves) to loot the country. But also uncontrolled rising costs destroyed a lot of businesses which the country needed to function
MBAs too, while we are at it. They like to play cookie clicker with the global wealth distribution and it is insane.
The family entrepreneur from Waiblingen in southern Germany does not mince his words…
Family businessman Stihl takes a long-term view…
STIHL: €5.48bn in revenue and more than 20,000 employees
Just a small FAMILY businessman… The stilted way these pieces always try to humanize the people calling for more worker exploitation always creeps me out. Do they think the workers don’t have families or something?
Unfortunately he’s not an annoying leftist streamer, so we must pretend he got there through hard manual labor, and nothing else.
Waiblingen, BW
It’s always the fucking Swabians… They have a talent of growing really awful people around Stuttgart :(
https://www.karriere-familienunternehmen.de/warum-familienunternehmen
This shit is always so funny to me - the name implies its about some humble family-run business.
You look inside and well - Volkswagen, Schwarz (the group behind Lidl, Kaufland, STACKIT, …), Audi… you know - small, harmless businesses.
I especially laugh at the arguments they make for working at those “family-run businesses”. If you were looking for a definition of gaslighting, you would have it right there.
Translated to english:
Family togetherness: Work in an environment full of trust and appreciation.
Secure job: Benefit from long-term stability and high crisis resistance.
Meaningful tasks: Take responsibility in projects with real purpose. Rapid advancement: Use flat hierarchies for your personal career.I think they’re trying to justify his lack of compassion for workers because his company’s profitability is so personal for him and central to his identity (d’awww).
