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  • A new report from the German Parity Welfare Association is sounding the alarm about the country's high rates of poverty. More than 14 million people are living below the poverty line, including a record number of children. DW visited a food bank here in Berlin to meet people who are struggling.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 735

  • @porodicaVorgic
    @porodicaVorgic 2 місяці тому +247

    There is no such thing as "Child poverty". Only poverty. And it hits families.
    But I guess it sounds better when you say it like that.

    • @lenn939
      @lenn939 2 місяці тому +6

      How does “child poverty” sound better than just “poverty”? Imo it sounds worse.

    • @porodicaVorgic
      @porodicaVorgic 2 місяці тому +25

      @@lenn939 Better for attention. Better for clicks. They tend to use strong, trigger words to get to our primal instincts and reactions.

    • @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage
      @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage 2 місяці тому +5

      Child poverty will harm the state taxes on the long run. These deprived children are expected to pay pensions one day.

    • @user-ky9qn4pg3w
      @user-ky9qn4pg3w 2 місяці тому

      Children yearn for the mines

    • @zuzanazuscinova5209
      @zuzanazuscinova5209 2 місяці тому +4

      ​​@@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage guess there will be no pensions then. I'm 32 and expect nothing. Millennials and Gen Z are adjusting, it's only an issue to people trying to retire within next 10-15 years

  • @thenavigator4493
    @thenavigator4493 2 місяці тому +78

    There's no such thing as "child poverty", there's simply 'poverty'...and children are financially dependent on their parents.

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 2 місяці тому +4

      Exactly.

    • @mark9294
      @mark9294 2 місяці тому +1

      I don’t get all this handwringing over the term. “Child poverty” is poverty that affects children, it’s not that difficult to understand. That’s like saying there are no “red cars”, there are only “cars”…

    • @thenavigator4493
      @thenavigator4493 2 місяці тому

      @@mark9294 We should keep children out of politics. The solution to child poverty will be child labour.

    • @renzuki5830
      @renzuki5830 2 місяці тому +1

      @@mark9294 The term is misleading. There can't be any "child poverty" without poverty. The car example doesn't hold up. A red car specifially is disntinctly different from a car. Not every car is red. If there is child poverty there is just poverty though. "Child poverty" says "the parents are poor" the same way poverty says "the parents are poor". You are trying to make a distinction "children are affected" that also doesn't exist. Children are always affected by poverty. The only exceptions to the rule would be rich parents kicking out their children into poverty or celibate poor people that don't have children. Neither of these cases are meant by child poverty though.

  • @jamesdoe3553
    @jamesdoe3553 2 місяці тому +220

    Poor German Kids, Rich German Politicians.

    • @spookyargument7537
      @spookyargument7537 2 місяці тому +9

      And an even richer state which taxes people to hilt

    • @halberderdier8073
      @halberderdier8073 2 місяці тому +7

      ​@@spookyargument7537Actually financial support for the poor makes up the largest part of the budget.

    • @halberderdier8073
      @halberderdier8073 2 місяці тому

      German politicians earn much less than corporate managers.

    • @renatetebbel6954
      @renatetebbel6954 2 місяці тому +9

      @@halberderdier8073actually the poor on social welfare are not bad off, while pensioners and the working poor are really disproportionately disadvantaged

    • @spookyargument7537
      @spookyargument7537 2 місяці тому +7

      @@halberderdier8073 The largest scandal is one third of federal budget going towards pensioners. The pension system is a ticking time bomb - it's a Ponzie Sheme with a mere 2 contributors for every beneficiary

  • @MagusMik
    @MagusMik 2 місяці тому +156

    It’s really insane everywhere is facing the same problems

    • @stevenhenry5267
      @stevenhenry5267 2 місяці тому +19

      Blame corporations.

    • @anim3z4u
      @anim3z4u 2 місяці тому +2

      It was fortold in the Bible!

    • @duncansmith7562
      @duncansmith7562 2 місяці тому +7

      except Russia

    • @liliatursunova4950
      @liliatursunova4950 2 місяці тому +7

      ​@@duncansmith7562 better cry in Mercedes then in zaporoghets

    • @duncansmith7562
      @duncansmith7562 2 місяці тому +1

      @@liliatursunova4950 as if those are the only two options.

  • @ANIMALS_AND_MORE_moments
    @ANIMALS_AND_MORE_moments 2 місяці тому +29

    On a personal level, if one cannot take care of one's self, one is seen as unable to help others. That approach should go for governments too.

  • @nublex
    @nublex 2 місяці тому +113

    so much for being the third largest economy in the world

    • @lenn939
      @lenn939 2 місяці тому +13

      Not like the second and first don’t have poverty

    • @wztrtzr5016
      @wztrtzr5016 2 місяці тому +10

      Germany is 4th after GDP . But whatever wouldn't change the problem because it have nothing to do with GDP doesn't say anything about how poor or rich people are in a country.

    • @lenn939
      @lenn939 2 місяці тому +9

      @@wztrtzr5016 It’s third currently

    • @Kite-te9km
      @Kite-te9km 2 місяці тому

      ​@@wztrtzr5016
      I have been saying this for years.
      GDP figures are a lie!

    • @GazGuitarz
      @GazGuitarz 2 місяці тому

      The US and the UN/WEF/EU have trashed the place and the economy. Some Ukrainian style trashing is heading their way soon. Then the US can move in and rebuild a trashed Europe and make huge moola like after WW2. You can see it already happening in Ukraine with Blackrock and JP Morgan. The Euro was beginning to become a threat the US petro dollar and we all know what the US does when that happens. How could Germany allow the US to trash their cheap energy deals with Russia? Insanity and nothing of gain in it for Germany only misery.

  • @urimtefiki226
    @urimtefiki226 2 місяці тому +84

    The rich are laughing while the children suffer.
    I worked for my children not for the rich who are plunderers of my invention.

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb 2 місяці тому

      It's the same old story that's been going on for thousands of years get into politics or don't winge because that's the only way you're going to change it

  • @Pinback71
    @Pinback71 2 місяці тому +131

    Ah well, that's what happens when you import social problems from other countries without first resolving your own. It only makes it worse.

    • @Gtumrths
      @Gtumrths 2 місяці тому +1

      You are absolutely right! The German Government wants GERMANS to be poor!!!!

    • @sapphiremoonstone939
      @sapphiremoonstone939 2 місяці тому +4

      The TikTok comments all say it is not important that people in other countries are poor because it means they are lazy, and it is more important that people donate money to Palestine lol 😅

    • @michelleodeke8600
      @michelleodeke8600 2 місяці тому +2

      Painful yet it's the honest truth!

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb 2 місяці тому

      Same things happening in Australia bringing all the boat people in and the standard of living keeps dropping. I often tell people when I was a kid we had steak most nights now we chop up one piece and put it on pasta for a whole family lol

    • @yunshuiseng8
      @yunshuiseng8 23 дні тому

      The only social problem is that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the middle class gets fckd. And that is not because people flee from misery, but because of a system that serves only the rich and spreads like a cancer worldwide.

  • @swedemartyrsonswade
    @swedemartyrsonswade 2 місяці тому +21

    It really pains me to see a young child who is struggling and trying to keep up with hard times.

    • @ufosrus
      @ufosrus 2 місяці тому

      Poverty also hits seniors hard.

  • @carlosmurgelcddr.1418
    @carlosmurgelcddr.1418 2 місяці тому +27

    Sad to see such a rich country with poverity increasing.

    • @werewolfcountry
      @werewolfcountry 2 місяці тому +7

      @@kibun1It's not socialism....

    • @greenknitter
      @greenknitter 2 місяці тому +6

      @@kibun1 There are no socialists in the German government parties lmao...just say you don't know what socialism means and move on.

    • @juangee303
      @juangee303 2 місяці тому +3

      Buddy that not socialism, your ignorance is part of the problem.

    • @GazGuitarz
      @GazGuitarz 2 місяці тому

      Everything has gone so swimmingly well since 2019. It's just one big laugh after another.

    • @pennyc8252
      @pennyc8252 2 місяці тому

      When your country want to be like God
      It happens 😢😢😢😢😢
      Other countries issued is not your problems but your govt dig into it and forget their own peoples who actually need help😮

  • @GFY_66
    @GFY_66 2 місяці тому +224

    While the rich get richer...

    • @urimtefiki226
      @urimtefiki226 2 місяці тому +4

      you can get rich either with creativity (invention) or monopoles

    • @pakabe8774
      @pakabe8774 2 місяці тому +16

      Not while, it is because. The more people are rich or the richer they become the more people have to be poor or the poorer they have to become.

    • @flesz_
      @flesz_ 2 місяці тому +2

      The problem to get rich is taxes
      Richer you get،پ،more tax you pay

    • @pakabe8774
      @pakabe8774 2 місяці тому +13

      @@flesz_ Wrong. No matter if you live in Germany or the US of A, the richer you are the less tax you pay - because the super rich have excellent conditions to pay almost no tax. Sure, there are rich people who are fair - at least to some extend - but many are not and pay no tax. Or don't you understand why Elon Musk for example lives from loans or could completely buy Twitter by loans? The richer you are, the less money you need.

    • @flesz_
      @flesz_ 2 місяці тому

      that's true, but that is only if you get to a level of having a few or tens of millions , but how do you get there?
      If you want to jump from working class to middle class , that's when they tax you 45% and more. Pretty much you give away half of your money .
      Unless you are a family of super rich who inherited the fortune that is no problem, you can buy property in monaco, have wealth management companies find the best way to sort you out, create offshore accounts , pay pretty much no tax @@pakabe8774

  • @Melior_Traiano
    @Melior_Traiano 2 місяці тому +110

    I wonder about the impact that immigration has on the overall poverty statistic. Also, being poor in Germany doesn't mean that you go to bed hungry (which is why so many immigrants go there as well). 20% of the population pays 80% of the taxes.

    • @Raindrops77
      @Raindrops77 2 місяці тому +10

      You absolute right ......

    • @enlightened786.
      @enlightened786. 2 місяці тому

      Tf are u talking about, as if germany isn't becoming industrialy irrelevant day by day , blame immigration as if 80 % of the population are immigrants .
      Germany is suffering the consequences of being a puppet to the us .

    • @KnallKalle
      @KnallKalle 2 місяці тому +7

      You're wrong! There is hunger! People without electricity! homeless people. It's all there in Germany, you just have to want to see it! German politicians just haven't seen it for a long time. At least since the 70's

    • @b4hva984
      @b4hva984 2 місяці тому +4

      Yeah just stick the immigration sticker to every problem.

    • @sloeberdoet
      @sloeberdoet 2 місяці тому

      @@b4hva984 the mass immigration plays a role in it.

  • @user-sm9jy2jm1i
    @user-sm9jy2jm1i 2 місяці тому +198

    When is Europe going to realise.
    We can't house the world.

    • @GazGuitarz
      @GazGuitarz 2 місяці тому +19

      When Klaus Schwab tells them to...which he never will.

    • @MetalHead-ks9zq
      @MetalHead-ks9zq 2 місяці тому +16

      Hey we got the same problem over here in the United States

    • @anthonyfaucy2761
      @anthonyfaucy2761 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@MetalHead-ks9zqThe US is massive tho

    • @northernking2604
      @northernking2604 2 місяці тому +9

      Not everyone wants to go to europe😂 stop lying to yourself

    • @KirkMillerShow
      @KirkMillerShow 2 місяці тому +1

      lit u can with 20 bil$ in the usa and they just approved building trains on the moon

  • @geeksworkshop
    @geeksworkshop 2 місяці тому +27

    When food banks starter appearing that was a warning sign that we all ignored. Now they have become a standard. Meanwhile the rich are getting richer with each fold-over.

    • @shawnd.8498
      @shawnd.8498 2 місяці тому +1

      Food banks started in 1981 in Canada.

  • @dannyboy8850
    @dannyboy8850 2 місяці тому +11

    It is a well established fact the economy in Germany has been going downhill as far back as 18 months ago. 😭

  • @gregorywilson2124
    @gregorywilson2124 2 місяці тому +99

    It’s the same in every western developed country. Germany is particularly vulnerable because the salaries are so low while prices are very high and increasing. In the USA there is even more devastation because we don’t have a safety net and the poor end up homeless.

    • @geoms6263
      @geoms6263 2 місяці тому +17

      Yes? But you have the money to finance all the global special military missions

    • @BlingBlingBandido
      @BlingBlingBandido 2 місяці тому +32

      Food prices in Germany are one of the lowest in Europe and cheaper than
      US.

    • @kordaxmint533
      @kordaxmint533 2 місяці тому +22

      ​@@BlingBlingBandido Food prices only.
      You can't even buy a property, and most Germans rent (Most Europeans rent also); people take mortgages for 30+ years, which is crazy.
      500k for an ordinary house in Germany. I've bought a business-class apartment for 200k USD in Russia without taking on massive debt.
      Car prices in Germany for German cars are almost 20-30% higher than in the US lol. US citizens can buy a brand new BMW X5, and I know few people who did this in the US and are just hired employees... they own several brand-new BMWS... yet in Germany, people can only dream about buying a new BMW X5; instead, they mostly buy used cars.
      We live in such an economic system where people are homeless because most cannot own houses/apartments and have to rent for the rest of their lives.
      This is not normal, and this is not how our parents lived.
      Taxes in Germany are enormous.... 42% tax for an ordinary salary.
      Most services are overpriced. Utility prices are crazy. Internet prices? I pay about ~12 USD for 500 mbit/s in Kazakhstan.
      Many developed countries are really in trouble now.

    • @BlingBlingBandido
      @BlingBlingBandido 2 місяці тому +7

      @@kordaxmint533 Yes rents and real estate prices are out of control and absurd. Just not the main cause of poverty. Selling communal social housing from past governments was a big mistake though.

    • @markbantz9699
      @markbantz9699 2 місяці тому +7

      @@kordaxmint533enjoy Russia! Watch out!!😂😂😂

  • @gilh3947
    @gilh3947 2 місяці тому +47

    Mainly imported poverty. These images are highly selective.

    • @GazGuitarz
      @GazGuitarz 2 місяці тому +3

      Failing industrial base due to climate fear mongering and the loss of cheap Russian energy.

    • @gilh3947
      @gilh3947 2 місяці тому +4

      Gas prices in Europe are on the same level as before. And your addition of climate blah blah is typical St Petersburg troll speak@@GazGuitarz

    • @kamilksiazek8019
      @kamilksiazek8019 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@gilh3947 10/10

    • @metodiusm428
      @metodiusm428 2 місяці тому

      @@gilh3947 Sadly it's not only immigrants, there are quite a lot of Germans as well

    • @gilh3947
      @gilh3947 2 місяці тому

      One tends to forget that merely 30 years ago half of germany was an economic ruin, created by the communist dictatorship that was one of the many sad consequences of WWII. That good old soviet empire, where people queued for bread and the KGB or Stasi decided who lived and who perished. That good old soviet empire that is what putin dreams about today.@@metodiusm428

  • @belowfreezing89
    @belowfreezing89 Місяць тому +2

    It’s not just Germany, it’s Korea, Australia, Canada, USA, UK and more.

  • @riamu1985
    @riamu1985 2 місяці тому +9

    In Germany you cant afford Kids anymore....you have to work whole month to pay the rent.

  • @alihanaydogdu6158
    @alihanaydogdu6158 2 місяці тому +11

    The recession hit Germany hard. The combination of an aging population, a shrinking workforce, reduced production, and wrong government policies has brought this to a head. Even cheap Ukrainian and Syrian labor will not be able to fix Germany's economy.

    • @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage
      @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage 2 місяці тому +4

      Installing wealth taxes would be a first step.
      We talk here about imbalances, this country is rich.

    • @user-xt5yz8wm7z
      @user-xt5yz8wm7z 2 місяці тому

      @@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage not the rich 🤣🤣

    • @asvathg358
      @asvathg358 2 місяці тому

      As German language is an absolute must for German employers, it starts to take away the interests of skilled workers from across the globe. They feel that it is quite a challenge to learn German (takes a lot of valuable time, which they can invest in other useful things), where other countries are managing with English. Moreover, every small process by the Auslandbehörde (for foreigners) takes a lot of time and the finance and banking industries are quite slow and unresponsive to customers (talking from a common man point of view).

  • @liminalist451
    @liminalist451 2 місяці тому +70

    but germany just donated money for war am i right?

    • @valevisa8429
      @valevisa8429 2 місяці тому +16

      Donating money to fight evil is a good thing.Only the evil ones see it as a bad thing.

    • @dansmaljaj3796
      @dansmaljaj3796 2 місяці тому +11

      they also gave 45millions to unrwa 🤮

    • @tazulislam8247
      @tazulislam8247 2 місяці тому +6

      Yes you are. Only 50 Billions Packages for Ukraine 🙄🙃😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😁🙄🙄😁😁🤔

    • @dansmaljaj3796
      @dansmaljaj3796 2 місяці тому +7

      @@tazulislam8247 does allah agree with all your emojis? 😉✌

    • @rebecadiaz7005
      @rebecadiaz7005 2 місяці тому +7

      Yes that’s what I think
      Money for war taken away for the less fortunate.
      Insane !!!

  • @cumhurtopbas7014
    @cumhurtopbas7014 2 місяці тому +5

    The same story for most of the western world, high inflation, high unemployment, low savings and few good opportunities

  • @gtrdxz
    @gtrdxz 2 місяці тому +62

    But you keep paying for the uninvited "guests", seems like germany isnt for the germans.

    • @pennyc8252
      @pennyc8252 2 місяці тому +3

      So true

    • @Lobellien
      @Lobellien 2 місяці тому

      Because the guests are gold 🎉

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb 2 місяці тому

      People go on about all these conspiracy theories but seriously I think they're trying to flood the world with immigrants so our economies crash and only one particular country can succeed who runs all the narrative through their computer companies

    • @ThisIsLikeM
      @ThisIsLikeM 2 місяці тому +2

      Seems like people will forever fall for simple answers before making effort to think on their own or even get educated on real matters of social inequality. It’s a shame, I don’t know how education could fail so hard.

    • @James-kv6kb
      @James-kv6kb 2 місяці тому

      Comments removed so much for a free speech

  • @davinxi5926
    @davinxi5926 2 місяці тому +69

    Inflation hits everywhere

    • @nic969
      @nic969 2 місяці тому +13

      That Problem exists also without Inflation.

    • @antixdevelopment1416
      @antixdevelopment1416 2 місяці тому +4

      @@nic969 Exactly. Politicians have access to so much resource for the stuff that they deem valid like financing their countries wars and so forth but don't make their own citizens lives better.

    • @Memovox
      @Memovox 2 місяці тому +3

      De-industrialization doesn't hit everywhere.

    • @compactwoodhplcladding
      @compactwoodhplcladding 2 місяці тому

      Really? I thought only germany.

    • @user-bj3ns4fe1w
      @user-bj3ns4fe1w 2 місяці тому

      Not everywhere in Germany is high

  • @sofehd4696
    @sofehd4696 2 місяці тому +4

    Oh god.. what a shame society where there is a teenager in line for food donation, not at home.

  • @Clydeb_9994
    @Clydeb_9994 2 місяці тому +63

    Direct result of Angela's legacy and of the new liberal/green coalition!

  • @leszeknagooglach
    @leszeknagooglach 2 місяці тому +32

    But there is money to support the 'engineers and doctors' that Angela invited to Germany....

    • @sloeberdoet
      @sloeberdoet 2 місяці тому +6

      engineers and doctors that even can't write or read.

    • @jyotsnapantsachiv5346
      @jyotsnapantsachiv5346 2 місяці тому +1

      @@sloeberdoet Many Indians can write and understand English and hv learnt German,too!

    • @Sandra-ml1xn
      @Sandra-ml1xn 2 місяці тому +2

      Engineers and doctors coming frm india are highly educated. We don't have enuf jobs to support them, thats why they go abroad. Plus they pay taxes. Please dont come at Indians. They are mostly respectable individuals who intergrate well into the country and culture they go to.

    • @sloeberdoet
      @sloeberdoet Місяць тому +1

      @@jyotsnapantsachiv5346 We are not talking about those. We are talking about the masses that invade Europe. A big part of them are illiterate you always knocking on the same wood which has nothing to do with the topic we're discussing here. We are talking about the hundreds of thousands which come illegal or even legal but without any useful skills.

  • @MrUbercool007
    @MrUbercool007 2 місяці тому +2

    Where is this food bank located?

    • @Reymi722
      @Reymi722 2 місяці тому +1

      You mean specially this one? In every city you can find these, they are called "die Tafel".

  • @elenamonteagudo9855
    @elenamonteagudo9855 2 місяці тому +7

    But Germany is sending millions of euros to Ucraine? That is pornographic 🤷

    • @NobodySpecial509
      @NobodySpecial509 2 місяці тому +2

      Canada 🇨🇦 is in the same situation and our gvmt is doing the same.. shameful.

  • @cristinaximera9663
    @cristinaximera9663 2 місяці тому +15

    "Child poverty".... do rich parents have poor children? What is "child poverty"? The private food banks, btw., are an early manifestation of a failing state.

  • @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage
    @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage 2 місяці тому +33

    Germany has not had any wealth taxes since 1996. Even in socialist Switzerland you have to pay such taxes.

    • @duncansmith7562
      @duncansmith7562 2 місяці тому +1

      but there was no decline of Germany after 1996.
      the decline is post the lunatic Left agenda: sanctions on Russia, Green policies, high priced energy, mass immigration.

    • @duncansmith7562
      @duncansmith7562 2 місяці тому

      that may well explain why so much of Switzerland looks like a sh**hole compared to the past.

    • @Melior_Traiano
      @Melior_Traiano 2 місяці тому +8

      "Even in socialist Switzerland you have to pay wealth taxes?" Sorry, but that statement makes no sense. I'd expect there to be wealth taxes in a socialist country.

    • @duncansmith7562
      @duncansmith7562 2 місяці тому +2

      @@Melior_Traiano one would expect nothing but

    • @kamilksiazek8019
      @kamilksiazek8019 2 місяці тому

      But they have taxes on capital gains, as well as a pretty high dividend tax of 26.875%. Where does it go?

  • @michaelcullen6923
    @michaelcullen6923 2 місяці тому +8

    How's that "Wir schaffen das" going now?

    • @renatetebbel6954
      @renatetebbel6954 2 місяці тому +1

      Going the way of all „Hybris“… down the drain

  • @chenghonggoh4746
    @chenghonggoh4746 2 місяці тому +4

    Proverty alleviation starts with awareness of the problem. Thank you DW for highlighting this issue.

    • @Memovox
      @Memovox 2 місяці тому +1

      It's getting harder and harder for DW & Co. to ignore the obvious.

  • @spootnik00
    @spootnik00 2 місяці тому +14

    Increasing minimum wage will also increase inflation

    • @Real-comment-unreal-name
      @Real-comment-unreal-name 2 місяці тому +1

      Yes it’s a crazy cycle.

    • @skycloud4802
      @skycloud4802 2 місяці тому +1

      Inflation is actually increasing anyway. The minimum wage needs to keep up.

    • @tulip811
      @tulip811 2 місяці тому

      Weimar calling

  • @liar-liar
    @liar-liar 2 місяці тому +48

    What happened to the weapons supplied to Israel, selling or donating

    • @dansmaljaj3796
      @dansmaljaj3796 2 місяці тому +6

      what will happen with the 45millions donated to unrwa ?? more tunnels ??

    • @AleeBebop182
      @AleeBebop182 2 місяці тому +1

      It's all preordained 😊 by his eminence.

    • @sloeberdoet
      @sloeberdoet 2 місяці тому

      Stay at the topic here.

    • @89Honeey
      @89Honeey 2 місяці тому +1

      @@sloeberdoet this comment is related with the topic. Because it's with the taxes that we pay that they finance wars.

    • @sloeberdoet
      @sloeberdoet 2 місяці тому

      @@89Honeey That's right sadly.

  • @amazingblogs3213
    @amazingblogs3213 2 місяці тому +6

    Sanctioning cheap Russian gas has consequences

  • @stephenduffy5406
    @stephenduffy5406 2 місяці тому +47

    But the million Syrians are eating well ...

    • @JustMichael51083
      @JustMichael51083 2 місяці тому +8

      🎯👍

    • @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage
      @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage 2 місяці тому +18

      We don't have to pit the misery of some against the misery of others.
      We're talking about imbalances here, this country is rich.

    • @werewolfcountry
      @werewolfcountry 2 місяці тому

      Are they though?

    • @janlanik2660
      @janlanik2660 2 місяці тому

      I think they are probably counted in that 20%

    • @sapere7
      @sapere7 2 місяці тому +5

      You say the same thing about Ukrainians ?

  • @Average_Bruh
    @Average_Bruh 2 місяці тому +17

    Yeap. I'm working and I get 13.50 an hour. 130hr in total. That's less than 1800€ gross. Rent isn't cheap and neither is the energy costs. Not to mention all the other taxes one has to pay. In Germany, if you don't meet the right people with the right opportunity, it's almost impossible to advance from where you are. The tide pushing back is hard. It's like a uphill battle against a raging flood. A large part is due to the bureaucracy and the time it takes to get things done. Having to wait on mail and reply takes a lot of unnecessary time and quite frankly a waste of paper. I have suitcases filled with letters.

    • @brainbox5030
      @brainbox5030 2 місяці тому +2

      Do you live in Berlin with any academical qualification? Can you speak German to B1 level? if yes, i can link you to jobs of over 2,900 Net salary

    • @Average_Bruh
      @Average_Bruh 2 місяці тому +2

      @@brainbox5030 then i need to move to Berlin it seems

    • @brainbox5030
      @brainbox5030 2 місяці тому

      Getting an Apartment is a big problem. However, if u can get an apartment and have the afore-mentioned qualities, i can link u up.
      @@Average_Bruh

    • @tulip811
      @tulip811 2 місяці тому

      Hä Dreischicht klärt 😂

    • @bsl025
      @bsl025 2 місяці тому +1

      Maybe work 160h like most of people?

  • @BobBob-ix4cl
    @BobBob-ix4cl 2 місяці тому +8

    Earning 4K a month. Paying 1.5K to taxes insurance etc. and still making it hardly over the month

  • @hackedbyBLAGH
    @hackedbyBLAGH 2 місяці тому +5

    That's bad news. Poland is looking left and right lol

  • @compactwoodhplcladding
    @compactwoodhplcladding 2 місяці тому +18

    I am a Chinese businessman engaged in German business. In the past, we could provide Germany with very cheap goods, but now, we are forced to raise prices due to various German bureaucracies.
    VAT,WEEE,EPR We believe that these restrictions are just the beginning.

    • @SDM496
      @SDM496 2 місяці тому

      Thanks but we don't want low quality Chinese products. Just for example, I never buy Chinese Ginger in the grocery stores. It has no fibre and no taste. The Chinese quality cannot be trusted.

    • @swatichatterjee1513
      @swatichatterjee1513 2 місяці тому

      Sorry, but I am just curious, what exactly do you mean by bureaucracy?

    • @compactwoodhplcladding
      @compactwoodhplcladding 2 місяці тому

      WEEE, VAT, EPR certifications. These obstacles increase not only our costs but also the antagonism between countries.
      The lessons of World War II have taught us this. Many of us have given up the business in Germany, and I have actually left the business in Germany.
      @@swatichatterjee1513

    • @compactwoodhplcladding
      @compactwoodhplcladding 2 місяці тому

      VAT, WEEE, EPR
      Many of us have given up the business in Germany, and I have actually left the business in Germany last year.@@swatichatterjee1513

    • @compactwoodhplcladding
      @compactwoodhplcladding 2 місяці тому

      @@swatichatterjee1513 VAT blabla

  • @geoms6263
    @geoms6263 2 місяці тому +31

    It depends on how we define poverty. In other countries they would probably be considered rich.

    • @kordaxmint533
      @kordaxmint533 2 місяці тому +4

      Only in impoverished countries... I live in Kazakhstan (though I'm Russian originally), and many retired people own 2-3 flats here.
      Pensions are pretty low, so they just rent out their property and make a decent income, like 1-2k euro netto per month. (after taxes, etc)
      Interest rates are also high, so you can basically make additional 300-500 USD netto per month just by holding some amount in your account.

    • @jeremytine
      @jeremytine 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@kordaxmint533 median income in Germany is also 3x higher than in kazakhstan. Do you not understand how exchange rates work?

    • @kordaxmint533
      @kordaxmint533 2 місяці тому +4

      @@jeremytine I make more than 74k euro netto in Kazakhstan (Annual).
      Keep looking at statistics etc.
      Also, your median income is gross, and a 60k salary is like 40k really before the rent (or 37k for 1st category), and rent prices are huge in Germany.
      After rent it will be like 28k euros annually, which is only 2333 euros per month.
      Do you not understand how statistics and economies work?
      I worked in Mannheim previously (for Movilizer), so your bs won't work here.

    • @jeremytine
      @jeremytine 2 місяці тому +2

      @@kordaxmint533 yeah, I know how statistics work, that is why I used them unlike your anecdotal data... How much you, a single person, make is irrelevant unlike the median person. If you compare PPP(purchasing power parity) median income, it is still higher in Germany.

    • @jeremytine
      @jeremytine 2 місяці тому

      @@NobleTitans "it is not about exchange rate but rather purchasing power." exchange rate does play a part, and I also mentioned PPP which is still in Germany's favor. 😉 feel free to quote PPP stats of countries involved 🍿😁

  • @IbnBahtuta
    @IbnBahtuta 2 місяці тому +6

    Cheer up, at least your postage stamps don't cost fifty million Marks anymore.

  • @catalina5382
    @catalina5382 2 місяці тому +2

    for Matias (the man with the canes) YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ASHAMED! the politicians and the system that failed you have to be ashamed, not you.

  • @kongthai..
    @kongthai.. 2 місяці тому +3

    €2000 a month minimum wage.
    That's interesting.
    Providing grants to the vulnerable, the old, the young, the incapacitated.
    Everyone watches how Germany 🇩🇪 manages society.
    🥺

  • @aarhusnord
    @aarhusnord 2 місяці тому +3

    This is the recipe for polarization, extremism, unrest ... the system is broken, therefore at some time it may get broken down itself.

  • @Alexandrinka
    @Alexandrinka 2 місяці тому +13

    I think it's good that in Germany you can talk openly about serious problems such as poverty and report on them on television and in newspapers. In my home country Belarus it is forbidden to talk about such things publicly, even though people's purchasing power is much (!) worse than in Germany. The cityscape in Belarus is characterized by countless second-hand shops. Many pensioners work until they are 70 because they want to help their poor children and grandchildren. But in Belarus there are no food banks, no social markets and no soup kitchens - that would be considered a shame and would publicly show the true extent of poverty. The media tells people that things are not as bad for them as the people in Africa, for example, who often have no bread at all. Anyone who dares to talk about it publicly will receive a punishment or even a few months in prison - for “discrediting” the authorities and the government.

    • @Kite-te9km
      @Kite-te9km 2 місяці тому +2

      😮😮
      Who told you we have no bread in Africa???
      I probably live better than you here and yet I am at low middle class!!

    • @stayfetch9841
      @stayfetch9841 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Kite-te9km the Belorussian government / Same as Putin, they lie constantly to its own people, they even convinced whole nations that Ukraine is Fascist and people have to agree with it 💁‍♂

    • @tulip811
      @tulip811 2 місяці тому

      Northern Africa maybe ? 😅​@@Kite-te9km

    • @pennyc8252
      @pennyc8252 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@Kite-te9km
      Everyone knows Africa is poorest continents among others.
      U r just lucky one 😮

    • @Kite-te9km
      @Kite-te9km 2 місяці тому +1

      @@pennyc8252
      MSM educated you that way?

  • @recabitejehonadab2654
    @recabitejehonadab2654 2 місяці тому +2

    Doesn’t look like one kid is starving too badly .

    • @quartermaster1976
      @quartermaster1976 2 місяці тому +1

      All they can afford is carbs like the old Soviet Block babushkas were refrigerator shaped but the Union dissolved.

  • @armineser2591
    @armineser2591 2 місяці тому +4

    Statistic is missing which percentage of children from divorced versus non divorced families are poor.
    Is it the taxpayers duty to make up for the differential cost of a divorced couple?

  • @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc
    @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc 2 місяці тому +6

    And all the imports? Doing OK.

  • @localguy123
    @localguy123 2 місяці тому +12

    Best thing to do is not to have children / more children is such dire situations.

  • @impedimenta934
    @impedimenta934 2 місяці тому +2

    Germany needs a serious overhaul, both politically and socially. It now depends upon the enlightened and educated German citizens to understand how they will steer the country away from this. One thing I know about Germans are that they are very resilient and quick to respond when they think it is really needed. I hope they come through this time as well.

  • @richardpancham7556
    @richardpancham7556 2 місяці тому +3

    Waste of money sent to fight war .

  • @desinihilist5916
    @desinihilist5916 2 місяці тому +3

    I mean this does make sense, German industries already do not find people to work for them. German salaries are slowly becoming unattractive for most of the educated people. So keeping German children poor will mean they spend a lot more time worrying, little time studying. This will in turn mean instead of being able to get high paying jobs in the future, there will be a steady flow of people forced to work for the lowest German salaries keeping Germany in some form an attractive export option for the world.

    • @KEMough
      @KEMough 2 місяці тому

      So it’s a Republican system? The German people can do a walk out and shut the country down starting with healthcare.

  • @GaddarKerim1
    @GaddarKerim1 2 місяці тому +12

    Germany must digitalize the state services and must reduce bureaucracy to attract more investment for decreasing poverty.

    • @pakabe8774
      @pakabe8774 2 місяці тому +7

      Wrong. Bureaucracy is helping to decrease poverty. Lowering bureaucracy just hides poverty. I myself grew up in poverty in the 80's and 90's. My Mother grew up in poverty in the 60's and 70's. We just weren't statistically detected, but believe me, we existed.

    • @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage
      @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage 2 місяці тому +8

      Thank to bureaucracy we have numbers about child poverty.

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 2 місяці тому

      @@pakabe8774
      LOL.

    • @tulip811
      @tulip811 2 місяці тому

      Bureaucracy is good, look at all the countries which don't have it 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @pakabe8774
      @pakabe8774 2 місяці тому

      @@tulip811 You got it, because that's what the people who discredit bureaucracy want.

  • @MukadisAymen-ui8fy
    @MukadisAymen-ui8fy 2 місяці тому +18

    This is the problem with today's politicians like Germany they hav money for NATO Ukraine but not for their own people....

    • @letsgooo162
      @letsgooo162 2 місяці тому +2

      Isso!

    • @JoeFrancis4876
      @JoeFrancis4876 2 місяці тому +2

      That's common in all the countries ,even in India

    • @MukadisAymen-ui8fy
      @MukadisAymen-ui8fy 2 місяці тому

      @@JoeFrancis4876and this is wrong any government should take care of his own people first before using the people resource to take care of others ....!!!

  • @spicyroads
    @spicyroads 2 місяці тому

    Guy went from embarrassed to international media

  • @tsean1158
    @tsean1158 2 місяці тому +3

    Germany don’t support the war, but your people!

  • @paulsmith2442
    @paulsmith2442 2 місяці тому +3

    This is happening in nearly every country every government is taking the piss

  • @duncansmith7562
    @duncansmith7562 2 місяці тому +7

    looks like Andreas could do with losing a kilo or two.
    keep him out of the food bank.

  • @NikolausFedermann-im5nf
    @NikolausFedermann-im5nf 2 місяці тому +2

    " If I import Kalkutta, I become Kalkutta" (Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist).

  • @friedrichjunzt
    @friedrichjunzt 2 місяці тому +2

    How is this possible?! We have lowered the taxes for the rich so much over decades and still nothing is tickling down?! 😮😮😮😮🤡

  • @tobiwie
    @tobiwie 2 місяці тому +9

    Germany has one of the highest minimum wages around the world already. So my guess would be that raising minimum wages further will not solve the problem. In my eyes the goverment should try to lower the energy prices for private households.

    • @nvmtt1403
      @nvmtt1403 2 місяці тому +1

      throwing money at an ailing economy only drives up inflation. they need to increase production so things become cheaper. Not just raise wages.

    • @Memovox
      @Memovox 2 місяці тому +1

      German LNG imports from the US is expensive. And the households of ordinary German people are paying the price.

    • @user-yr5ck8bx9v
      @user-yr5ck8bx9v 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Memovox
      Yeah expensive here to.
      And the price is going up.
      Socialist Marxist take over of our energy caused it.
      Now their after businesses.
      Wonderful little comrades.
      My sarcasm

    • @pavlom4745
      @pavlom4745 2 місяці тому

      Could you answer, how much you pay for energy in coldest winter month and what is usual temperature?

    • @KEMough
      @KEMough 2 місяці тому +1

      It’s back to stoking fires and wearing two coats of

  • @angelachanelhuang1651
    @angelachanelhuang1651 2 місяці тому

    this isn't fair

  • @lateblossom
    @lateblossom 2 місяці тому

    I'm really disappointed in germany. I did not expect this to happen in germany.

  • @vfclists
    @vfclists 2 місяці тому

    If some people have the money to buy food to be distributed at the food banks then why isn't the same money paid out to the needy so they can purchase the food directly themselves?
    Where do food banks actually get their funding from?

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 2 місяці тому

      Private donations and out of their own pockets.

  • @o_o825
    @o_o825 2 місяці тому +15

    The last time this happened… 😳

  • @geraldallocca6858
    @geraldallocca6858 2 місяці тому +1

    Something must be done about the worldwide inequality! This just didn’t happen overnight! Been going on for decades!!!

  • @kellykreqeli8924
    @kellykreqeli8924 2 місяці тому +2

    If people come illegally they are housed and are given help yet the people who from the countries get very little help especially the working with families

  • @jerrymathura5807
    @jerrymathura5807 2 місяці тому +2

    The EURO BROUGHT HUGE INFLATION IN EUROPE, WITH THE DEUTSCHE MARK YOU DIDN'T HAD THIS, HOLE EUROPE SUFFERS, WATCHING FROM SURINAME

  • @Come_to_light119
    @Come_to_light119 2 місяці тому +7

    It's dangerous. If countries like Germany are having economic problems like poverty then how can people of countries of Africa and poor countries of Asia expect good life for themselves?

    • @Kite-te9km
      @Kite-te9km 2 місяці тому +2

      Here in Africa we have no food banks.
      You starve only by your own choice.
      It's quite different here.

  • @goru426
    @goru426 2 місяці тому +3

    Final stage of unregulated capitalism, all the money goes to the top 1%.

    • @shauncameron8390
      @shauncameron8390 2 місяці тому

      Germany is a social democracy. The real problem is too much bureaucracy.

  • @geoffoakland
    @geoffoakland 2 місяці тому +27

    The billions of euros spent on accommodating asylum seekers should have been spent helping lower income Germans.

    • @geoms6263
      @geoms6263 2 місяці тому +6

      You are not to smart i see. Those immigrants will be the ones who will pay your pension

    • @geoffoakland
      @geoffoakland 2 місяці тому +11

      @@geoms6263 you mean the inadequate 400 euro pension that man receives.? That is precisely the problem

    • @soundscape26
      @soundscape26 2 місяці тому

      Yeah right, all asylum seekers live in plush resorts and all. So many billions...

    • @etm8539
      @etm8539 2 місяці тому +6

      Totally agree, but those immigrants will end up doing the low salary jobs that hold the economy, so they are not that bad in the actual situation. It's the same here in Spain, you go to the plantations and almost all the workers are immigrants. What the states should do is stop giving those people money, they should be productive to the society, not detrimental.

    • @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage
      @Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage 2 місяці тому +4

      @@etm8539 We have the first syrian city major in germany, but that's not what you want to hear.

  • @valeriebolton2607
    @valeriebolton2607 2 місяці тому

    This is happening all around the world. I'm in the USA and it's happening here as well.

  • @AshishSawant-mt5bv
    @AshishSawant-mt5bv 2 місяці тому +9

    In war ,both sides lose - Buddha

  • @ronberman8947
    @ronberman8947 2 місяці тому +3

    $100's of billion euros for Ukraine. Crumbs for the working poor.Where is your reporting DW?

  • @sabarnapalit9446
    @sabarnapalit9446 2 місяці тому

    In our India we suffer from high level of poverty. Our life standards are much below and it is incomparable. Most of the country can't imagine what our poor peoples have to go through

  • @bindeshkumarsingh
    @bindeshkumarsingh 2 місяці тому +1

    Poor countries poverty: rare to get food, proper cloths etc.
    West poverty: unable to get food with big house, AC, costly clothing etc

  • @yunshuiseng8
    @yunshuiseng8 23 дні тому

    The first time I saw old people looking through a garbage can for food - some decades ago - I was crying. I never had thought that my country will fall so low. Meanwhile it seems that the whole society is falling apart. Those who have little care for those who have even less while the rich are looking for more and more perverted pleasure to spend the money that they suck out of the working people by a self-sustaining system protected by laws that serve the rich and punish the poor.

  • @flesz_
    @flesz_ 2 місяці тому

    I think we should all do global crowdfunding to help children in Germany

  • @GazGuitarz
    @GazGuitarz 2 місяці тому +1

    Deutsch WEF land is such a success they are trying to replicate it all over the western world.

  • @RussianPies
    @RussianPies 2 місяці тому +5

    When other people's interests are more important than their children.

  • @jessicahayes9788
    @jessicahayes9788 2 місяці тому +1

    Seems like Germany has similar issues as we do here in the U.S. as if they all talk and synchronize their agenda.

  • @michaelmansini2307
    @michaelmansini2307 2 місяці тому +7

    They are poor but culturally enriched

    • @sloeberdoet
      @sloeberdoet 2 місяці тому +1

      Like in Great Brittain where you walk in cities where you can ask yourself if you're in a West -European country, Belgium the same, Netherlands, Germany and France. All countries where they can have easy acces to easy social benefits, free housing, free healthcare all at the expense of the hard working tax payer.

  • @matw-jo6uh
    @matw-jo6uh 2 місяці тому +2

    That's what happens when your country spends egregious amounts of money on war war WAR

  • @muhammadyuda4643
    @muhammadyuda4643 2 місяці тому +3

    but they spend billion dollar on ukraina, why why why lol

  • @Existence-zy4gb
    @Existence-zy4gb 2 місяці тому +2

    Get that social system out of Germany!

  • @PAPOOSELAKESURFER
    @PAPOOSELAKESURFER 2 місяці тому +14

    Loss of the gas pipeline destroyed German economy, shut down industry dependent upon cheap energy.

    • @TR-dt8mt
      @TR-dt8mt 2 місяці тому +2

      When was Energy ever cheap in Germany?

    • @Memovox
      @Memovox 2 місяці тому +9

      @@TR-dt8mt Before Germany had to import expensive LNG from the US.

    • @TR-dt8mt
      @TR-dt8mt 2 місяці тому

      ⁠@@Memovoxgo on. Energy was never ever affordable in Germany and the pipeline would’ve not made a difference.

    • @Memovox
      @Memovox 2 місяці тому +4

      @@TR-dt8mt Yes it was, it kept the German industry alive. Not so anymore. Are you selling US LNG by any chance..?

    • @TR-dt8mt
      @TR-dt8mt 2 місяці тому

      @@kibun1I think in the 70’s we had in Germany an energy crisis.

  • @jacqueslee2592
    @jacqueslee2592 2 місяці тому +1

    That 14 year old kid looks younger than his real age. Before, 14 year old Germans looked like 18 year olds. Now they look like they are 10. This is what poverty does too. It stunts the population.

    • @tulip811
      @tulip811 2 місяці тому

      People used to SMOKE A LOT MORE 30 years ago 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ that's the only reason y'all used to look older !!!!

    • @bsl025
      @bsl025 2 місяці тому

      Come to Berlin - people look on average 10 years older due to all the drugs they consume 😂

  • @bpdbhp1632
    @bpdbhp1632 2 місяці тому +1

    Because all the money goes to the loving immigrants that want to pay the people back in every possible way and are always thankfull

  • @TheAmphicyon
    @TheAmphicyon 2 місяці тому +1

    Wait wait wait. Does this count immigrants and children of immigrants. We have the same problem in the usa. Poor people come here with their poor children. So what is the population of real citizen's who are poor. That is the question.

  • @absfinal
    @absfinal 2 місяці тому +1

    what's even child poverty when every kid has a parent?

    • @Maximum_maxi1
      @Maximum_maxi1 2 місяці тому +1

      Did you find an answer?
      I'm interested to know how

  • @margritpiepes8242
    @margritpiepes8242 2 місяці тому +1

    It’s a crying shame German goverment needs to do better . Do right by the children because they are Germany’s future.

  • @bluesea1769
    @bluesea1769 20 днів тому

    In my country, we don't have such thing call poverty. Everything is fine.

  • @Verifyourage
    @Verifyourage 2 місяці тому +2

    What do you expect when they take away rights to settle on land and farm instead they are forced into apartment prisons

  • @gardenjoy5223
    @gardenjoy5223 2 місяці тому +1

    Don't forget, that a lot of people under the poverty line are only so on paper. For they can't find any work. Because the only work they want to do is without paying taxes. So they get Bürgergeld (Citizen's money) And make a nice buck on the side.
    Those are mainly imported people. They do not integrate very well. Or they don't integrate at all. It's just a minority that integrates quite well.

  • @NatashaLawes-xg3uk
    @NatashaLawes-xg3uk 2 місяці тому +2

    Failing leeders of the World!!

  • @urimtefiki226
    @urimtefiki226 2 місяці тому +21

    I am doctor and I am fighting for providing for my children in this crises.

    • @smimtiaz4556
      @smimtiaz4556 2 місяці тому

      😮

    • @JG-xk5nd
      @JG-xk5nd 2 місяці тому

      Was ein lächerliches Statement. 6 Kinder und Assistenzarzt in München oder was ?
      Klar ist die Situation leicht angespannt aber was sollen dann die Durchschnittsverdiener sagen?

    • @janlanik2660
      @janlanik2660 2 місяці тому +11

      In Germany? Come on, doctors make like 80K+. Maybe if you just finished school and are single parent or something. I have 2 small children in Bavaria and the entire necessary costs of our family are definitely bellow 3000 euros per month (including rent, not including vacations and champagne). Don't say you don't make 3000 netto as a doctor. Plus you get 250 per kid Kindergeld. I mean seriously I'd like to understand how what you are saying is possible.

    • @pavlom4745
      @pavlom4745 2 місяці тому +2

      Can I ask how many hours you work per week and what is your income? Are your renting your living place or have own house?

    • @rake483
      @rake483 2 місяці тому +12

      A struggling doctor? Hard to believe. Do you live in a 4 bedroom apartment in downtown?
      The doctors i know drive 100,000€ SUVs and live in small mansions.

  • @kingflixmovies837
    @kingflixmovies837 2 місяці тому

    If this was Britain you'd all have blamed Brexit.

  • @hrvojeleko5847
    @hrvojeleko5847 2 місяці тому +12

    No one complained when government printed money , now the chickens are coming home to roost

    • @pakabe8774
      @pakabe8774 2 місяці тому +3

      Last time German government printed money, was decades ago. So what are you talking about?