> rewarding innovation that has nothing to do with local laws and everything to do with politics. nordstream was blown up by the americans because the chinese and americans couldn't compete in most industries. the american occupation punished us for innovating for longer than i have been alive but sometimes their kvetch is reward enough. > red tape the whole nonsense about german bureaucracy is made up by americans who just hate the fact that its in german. there is no more bureaucracy than in any other european country. many laws are more lax and apart from driving licenses being a grand and up there isn't anything more prohibitive than anywhere else.
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