To make a bunch of plastic toy bricks a multi billion company you have to produce very special ones. LEGO is a marvel of human entrepreneurship, mechanical, designing and marketing. Diverse and totally different professions should cooperate together with a lot of innovation. To make one characteristic is doable, all of them is very difficult.
I can't imagine how I and hundreds of millions of others can heat their homes during cold nights without fossils or a 30cm thick XPS insulation, about which hardly anyone talks about. I have solar on the roof and batteries and they are totally dead for 2.5 months in a row in a sunny country.
How can millions of car batteries be managed efficiently without heavy environmental damage? EVs don't scale for all even with serious infra (recycling, on spot change, fast chargers).
The only viable solution is to continue burning and burning, if we don't want to severely degrade our quality of life: now fossils, a little woodchips like Sweden and in the end biofuels, synthetic fuels and hydrogen. And let anyone use nuclear at their own taste. Solar/batteries cannot extend beyond a small window and wind is not reliable.
All actors already know your age with 99% accuracy: tech giants (Google/Meta etc through your searches/choices) and government though your... birth. The same holds for your gender, job, spouse and more. And they share all of it to many other endpoints. They just want age verification to cover the rest 1% and to transfer the responsibility to the user.
The problem with any online age verification system is not only that many other info is leaked (personal, IP address etc) but even the fact that YOU apply for such a service and might use it for nasty things.
Everything that is happening now in the world was completely known and predicted since the 90's (energy and demographic crisis, China's rise, even decline of the West). Large projects were designed and implemented to combat these (with names in Germany like Innovation, Leistung, Kompetenz). But the results weren't enough and only mediocre.
In a nutshell: Germany, like almost all of Europe, cannot innovate, not only in IT but in any intelligence-intesive sector. We will remain stuck in traditional industries and hope at least to reduce our dependency on the US. Hopefully, this last need will help Europe keep its domestic market and maintain its quality.
Companies structure is much more monarchic than almost all regimes in history. CEOs stand in the top position like Gods, having full power at will, and then all the others follow as his workers. He can easily earn multiple times more than the next highest in the company because his responsibility is elevated. So, the company can afford to pay huge sum to one person because he is the only one that is able to bring in multiples of this (eg fire people, increase the stock price, prepare for a sale off). Companies are not democracies, not even monarchies, they are machines with a single brain for strategy: the CEO's.
At that time I used to visit Germany and take part to many Carneval open parties. I intended to even participate in a Love Parade. How did the accident affected other gatherings since then? Open street concerts, Saturday night club districts, Carneval?
Is that happens maybe because recent reality has shown some forms of traditional Sci-Fi? AI, humanoid robots, post apocalyptic climate, trillionairs, the USA vs the world, diminishing populations. I don't need any more Sci-Fi.
I gotta agree. All we need is corporate-run militaries and we're living in Heinlein's Friday. All the other dystopian predictions seem to be happening at once.
It's insane that with enough money you can support any claim you like. You can prove rapists as innocents even in the most strict judicial system. That's not justice or democracy.
The law is a weapon to keep the peons in their place, justice does not exist unless you're rich. Look at plea bargain rates by demographics and you'll see it.
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