Yeah, #ALDI is extremely German and that's how they are growing in the #USA:

• efficient
• affordable
• fast
• good
• no bullshit

And #USians finally learn the benefits of that, as #Greedflation kicks in and they need to make due with shrinking net income...

• Next thing the #USA is gonna embrace #Ordoliberalism and import things like #UniversalHealthcare and #PaidTimeOff, #PaidSickLeave and #PaidParentalLeave...
  

Am I the only one cringing out about the things that #CNBC lists as negatives?

• Yes you have to bring your own bag or buy one, but those #ShoppingBags at ALDI actually are useful for more than one trip and maybe bunding up trash.
• The quarter deposit rewards people to put their shopping carts back where they picked them up
• You ain't supposed to hang out in an ALDI: You go in, grab what you want, checkout, bag your stuff yourself and get home. This isn't an #IKEA!
• Less selection means less overhead and thus more streamlined operations.
• ALDI doesn't treat their staff like disposable items or trash.

Seriously, all that "#ServiceCulture" demanded is absurd #cringe because in the #US people ain't willing nor able to pay for that!

#sarcasm #USpol #consumers #Shrinkflation #CostOfLiving #Groceries #Food #retail #food

@Faithslayer202 You mean #Ordoliberalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism

@girlonthenet also evidence clearly shows that having proper #SocialSecurity and an #UBI will be offset dozenfold by having happier, healtier and more productive as well as more able to participate in society (and not just consume) than the cost of not doing anything and policing homeless folks.

• So even if we're "despicable excuses for human beings" (aka. #Banksters) that reduce people to their abilitiy to generate taxable income and consume, the math would still demand abolishment of *"#Neoliberalism is not #Capitalism for #Ordoliberalism or an egalitarian society.

She deepened Germany’s economic dependency on China and its energy dependency on Russia while abandoning nuclear power; she underinvested in German security and defense; she delayed long-overdue domestic reforms and investments in areas such as education and infrastructure; and her migration policy sowed the seeds for the success of the right-wing extremist party Alternative for Germany.
#memoirs #Germany #Europe #BookReview #Ordoliberalism #politics #history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/11/29/angela-merkel-freedom-memoir-review/

I am looking for experts / spokepersons on different fields who are inhabitants or citizens of the #EU and love it. Here the field is #economy (?) and includes the topic of @sjwrenlewis and the German debt obsession, #ordoliberalism (?) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory and whatever. I want to choose a person or persons and then follow them in direction of interest, selection of facts and opinions.

https://eupolicy.social/@Veza85UE/112064603303572780 https://toot.community/@pmroman/112064751270543668

@AliceStollmeyer @pmroman @michaelzemmour @Veza85UE

Who are the #EU experts / spokespersons on #EconEU #ordoliberalism #monetary ... ? Here is a blog-post from 🇬🇧 and I read and link it because of the "experiment" they have been going through.

"Almost 15 years of trying to reduce taxes, and complete failure."

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-14-years-have-shown-impossibility.html

https://econtwitter.net/@sjwrenlewis/112059293081882703

@AliceStollmeyer @michaelzemmour @sjwrenlewis @Veza85UE

@jmaris , have been thinking about this "buy versus produce" #ammo #shells ...

Do "buy" and "produce" exclude each other? Is there some rational reasoning why we can't do both?

Touches on #ordoliberalism of @Veza85UE ...

#Ukraine #GeoEU

en: https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/interview/eu-ready-to-take-risks-to-boost-defence-production-breton-says/

de: https://www.euractiv.de/section/eu-aussenpolitik/interview/thierry-breton-eu-bei-ruestungsproduktion-bereit-risiken-einzugehen/

#MyEU #GeoEU #OrdoLiberalism

Kolev, S. (2023). WHEN LIBERTY PRESUPPOSES ORDER: F. A. HAYEK’S CONTEXTUAL ORDOLIBERALISM. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1-24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837223000214 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Economics #Histodon #Histodons #Hayek #Ordoliberalism @histodon @histodons @historyofeconomics

@housepanther @DamienMarieAtHope

And despite this basic open-ended-ness that allows the state to basically take any property and just reimburse owners for doing so, investors ain't spooked, economy hasn't crashed and we ain't some communist dystopia as pictured in cold war propaganda.

In fact Germany is still rated best for lenders with a AAA+ rating.

#Ordoliberalism does work and I think we need more of regulation than less...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism

What's the most shocking #Deutschland news?

#Germany #WorldCup #WWC #Berlin #KaiWegner #CDU #ordoliberalism #eupol #europolitics

@Alon @JessTheUnstill Also it's kinda part of #Ordoliberalism, where in general things are laissez-faire but the basic frameworks like healthcare, social security, minimum wage, etc. are set and where employers compete for employees...

@TruthSandwich @CStamp @floatybirb @futurebird also most people would already be satisfied with #Ordoliberalism and subsequent social safety and -programs that aim at affordable housing, cheap transport that doesn't make one depend on a car and actually working infrastructure...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eIxUuuJX7Y

@salad_bar_breath *nodds in agreeement*

It's flabberghasting that they think the shitty #socdem|s that destroy #Ordoliberalism is seen by them as a "dystophia" when they are literally creating one made out of social darwinism.

Ordoliberalism seems to me to be underrepresented in the economic literature. Perhaps because as theorists the members of this school have not left much behind. But this school of thought had a great political influence in Europe in the 1950s. It is difficult to find an article telling the history of ordoliberal ideas and analyzing their influence.

#europe
#histodon
#econ
#economics
#germany
#ordoliberalism