Deixa-me adaptar a frase:
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are years where decades happen.”
Primeiro um disclaimer:
As Mittelstand são mais importantes para a Alemanha do que as VWs, BMWs et al. Já o escrevi aqui no blogue mais do que uma vez. A diferença é que as Mittelstand são muito mais pequenas, estão nas zonas menos densamente povoadas e menos sujeitas a flutuações de preços e procura
Hoje no FT no artigo "Abu Dhabi closes in on German group that helped invent chemistry":
"at the heart of Abu Dhabi oil group Adnoc's effort to seal Europe's biggest takeover deal this year.
The target, Covestro, is a jewel of German industry. Spun out of pharma-to-chemicals conglomerate Bayer in 2015, its Leverkusen headquarters sit in the industrial heartland of North RhineWestphalia"
No mesmo artigo encontro um apanhado recente:
"Foreign takeovers of German companies, such as the 2016 purchase of robotics group Kuka by China appliance maker Midea, and US-based Carrier's acquisition last year of family-owned Viessmann's heat pump business, have sparked concern in Berlin about the fate of the country's industrial edge."
Na capa do WSJ de hoje:
"Volkswagen is going through its deepest crisis in years. So is Germany. And that's no coincidence.
While the carmaker's travails are exposing missteps, they also show how Germany's economic model is struggling to keep up with a changing world. Fixing these problems will require changes both for the carmaker and one of the world's largest economies.
...
"VW is to Germany what Nokia was to Finland or Samsung is to South Korea... There's a scenario where that sector will shrink significantly and replacing those jobs with equally well-paid jobs will not be easy," said Dirk Schumacher, Europe economist at Natixis.
According to economists and analysts, Germany's economic malaise and VW's crisis have joint roots: heavy reliance on China, high costs, and an eroding technological leadership.
Recuo ao meu mágico ano de 2008 e a um texto de Beinhocker:
“Likewise, we cannot say any single strategy in the Prisioner’s Dilemma ecology was a winner. .
Lindgren’s model showed that once in a while, a particular strategy would rise up, dominate the game for a while, have its day in the sun, and then inevitably be brought down by some innovative competitor. Sometimes, several strategies shared the limelight, battling for “market share” control of the game board, and then an outsider would come in and bring them all down. During other periods, two strategies working as a symbiotic pair would rise up together – but then if one got into trouble, both collapsed.”
…
“We discovered that there is no one best strategy; rather, the evolutionary process creates an ecosystem of strategies – an ecosystem that changes over time in Schumpeterian gales of creative destruction.”
Suspeito que muitos problemas decorrem de não aceitarmos a destruição criativa e encarar o futuro com mais optimismo... algo difícil num continente cada vez mais transformado num hospício geriátrico, crente que os imigrantes vão pagar os direitos adquiridos sem uma revolta.
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