So, you're chiding German carmakers for being carmakers and not data miners? It seems like you're asking German industry to become something it fundamentally is not and cannot be short of a total root-and-branch restructuring that would be completely unacceptable to workers and adopt a way of working that is completely alien to executives. Never going to happen, in other words.
It's not a question of attitude. It's that the entire Silicon Valley ethos is fundamentally antithetical to the industrial philosophy of Germany. A German manufacturer pivoting like a tech company is about as likely as a tech company with codetermination.
But that is one essential point we make in the article: German carmakers are unable and unwilling to change their business models despite all evidence against manually driven combustion engines.
You write: “total root-and-branch restructuring that would be completely unacceptable to workers”. In which way is the current mass-firing more acceptable? They happen because the manufacturers can’t compete with their current business models, in part because they fail to adapt, in part because the systemic structures in Germany (energy, export, cost of work) don’t support it anymore.
So, you're chiding German carmakers for being carmakers and not data miners? It seems like you're asking German industry to become something it fundamentally is not and cannot be short of a total root-and-branch restructuring that would be completely unacceptable to workers and adopt a way of working that is completely alien to executives. Never going to happen, in other words.
Well, not with THAT attitude it won't
It's not a question of attitude. It's that the entire Silicon Valley ethos is fundamentally antithetical to the industrial philosophy of Germany. A German manufacturer pivoting like a tech company is about as likely as a tech company with codetermination.
But that is one essential point we make in the article: German carmakers are unable and unwilling to change their business models despite all evidence against manually driven combustion engines.
You write: “total root-and-branch restructuring that would be completely unacceptable to workers”. In which way is the current mass-firing more acceptable? They happen because the manufacturers can’t compete with their current business models, in part because they fail to adapt, in part because the systemic structures in Germany (energy, export, cost of work) don’t support it anymore.