Kunde statt Bürger 🧾 Warum Deutschland der Mitte kündigt

Tesla's new Roadster takes off. So do the prices. Almost at the same time Porsche shows a hypercar study next to which a 911 looks like a Golf. Henning, Wilbert and Oliver take that as the entry point into an episode about the digital feudal society: for the very rich the offer becomes more spectacular, for the broad mass it grows thinner. Elon Musk's promise that soon nobody will have to work sounds, around this table, like opium for the people. Industrialisation also brought democracy because it needed educated masses. That reason is disappearing right now. Then it gets political. Whoever sees themselves as a customer of the state rather than a citizen with a duty to take part is quickly dissatisfied and switches provider. The forecast: Germany will turn blue across the board, because the governing parties allow no self criticism. The mechanism behind it is simple: whoever holds privileges wants to keep them. So parties announce reforms and do not implement them. B people hire C people. Politicians only sound reasonable once they are out of office. Hamburg does not come off well. Cronyism and party membership help decide who gets which topics. For the three of them, nepotism is the equal sister of corruption. NEURA Robotics from Metzingen plays at the front internationally with a billion euro valuation. Hamburg, Berlin and Stuttgart are meanwhile busy administering themselves. There are counter proposals too: a council of elders made up of former politicians who no longer want to become anything, a term limit of two to three legislative periods, and Mark Carney as proof that the good can carry people along as well. In the end the group lands in everyday life. Rents eat a growing share of earned income, tradespeople's prices seem to be rolled from dice, and two espressos with a croissant cost less than half the Hamburg price in Milan. An episode with frustration and gallows humour. Anyone making policy in Hamburg or Berlin may consider themselves addressed. AI came up as well, by the way. Somewhere.