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Leaving Germany – Part 2: My Real-Life Examples & The Harsh Truth | Chris Consultant | YouTubeToText
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The author expresses deep disillusionment with contemporary Germany, citing a pervasive culture of fear, economic disincentives, bureaucratic overreach, and a decline in public services and safety, which has led to their decision to leave the country.
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Hi everyone. After my first video, why I'm leaving Germany,
I honestly didn't expect that sort of response. I have received hundreds of private messages,
thousand comments from all over the world. Truly amazing. Some agreed, some didn't. However,
one thing that stood out was that I was maybe generalizing too much and that I would better
show some real life examples of what is going wrong and why the system is broken. impacting me
today. So that's exactly what I'm going to do. I will share my reality, my worldview. Because this
isn't just my theory, it's my reality. It's what I've been living through, what I've seen, what
I have encountered in confirming my decision to leave finally. And I'm not doing this out of hate.
I'm doing this out of love for what Germany used to be. But I cannot pretend it's that country,
that environment anymore. In the end, if it didn't impact me directly, I wouldn't be leaving,
right? So, let's dive in. After my first video was live, my mom came over to take care of the
kids and she said, "Chris, why don't you take that video down? What are you trying to achieve with
this? What if the police comes." That moment hit me like a hammer because it shows me how deep fear
has sunk into our society today. We call ourselves a democracy. Yet people are afraid to say and
speak out what they think. And I see it every day wherever I am at work, at lunch, with colleagues,
with clients, work societies, business. If you say something critical about the government or
agree with something of opposing parties, silence. Everyone looks down. People change
topics whispering. People cannot openly say what they think. Maybe because of work dependencies,
of paying off the credit whatsoever. What we are living in today, this is not freedom of speech.
This is fear culture. That's how societies die. Not by violence, but by silence. And I'm seeing
it everywhere. Let's talk about something that truly broke my faith in this country today. And
that is the way Germany punishes work and destroys motivation. Before I'm talking
generally about the tax progressive system, let's start with something no one dares to question,
and that is church taxes. Why do if I'm Christian and registered as such, have to pay another 9% on
top of already insane income taxes? But if I'm Buddhist, Muslim, artist, I pay nothing. How
is that not discrimination? Please, I need to understand it. Make it make sense. Always, we
always want to be equal and nondiscriminating. Yet religion for Christianity in Germany has a price
tag. You literally have to pay to be religiously accepted. That's no go for me. In Spain or Italy,
unthinkable. But yet in Germany, religion seems to have a price tag if you're Christian. Now, let's
talk about the bigger trap, the progressive tax system that kills any sort of motivation in this
country. Germany has a highly progressive income tax system. The more you earn, the higher your tax
rate. However, there are specific income ranges where earning more can actually leave you with
less net income because of combined effects from rising income tax brackets, social contributions
like health, pension, unemployment insurance and then add to that loss of benefits or family
allowances. In short, the combination of taxes, search charges, social contributions often means
more gross income doesn't always mean more net income. Think about it. A major disincentive for
productivity and ambition in Germany. So, think about this logically. This doesn't make any sense.
And I totally get it. People tell me, "Chris, I don't want to earn more. It's just not worth
And I get it because you have to work harder, longer work hours, more responsibility, more
sweat, more burden. It's not just demotivating, it's demoralizing. And it's even worse for young
people. Combine this now with the cost of living crisis and the impact effect on young people that
earn average or above average. Today, these people cannot even pursue their dreams, their vision, and
get an apartment, a house because prices have been skyhigh. So they cannot fulfill the house of real
estate which is also the base and the foundation of uh to start a family and so on. So I get it.
These people have no motivation. They just they want to go home at 4, go to yoga class, relax.
Why kill themselves when they cannot achieve their ambition, their vision, their dreams? I totally
get it. It's not about economic failure. It's the death of motivation itself which is the current
base of our economic foundation and the incentives in our economy. It is totally insane if you
combine all these effects and impacts together. And I'm sorry I cannot keep up with this green
ideology anymore. We are destroying perfectly functioning modern nuclear power plants while at
the same time importing more expensive energy from France, Poland, the US, pretty much everywhere in
the world. All while we are pretending we are saving the planet and independent of the fact
whether CO2 emissions are bad or good for the environment, it doesn't make any sense if we
are not aligned from a world perspective on this. Here's the reality. China emits in one
day maybe what Germany tries to save in a couple weeks month or even half a year. So what are we
actually trying to achieve? We shut down nuclear power plants like the one in Gundming in just a
week or two ago blown up to a plow. People are plowing and now the reality will set in. Everyone
pays higher bills. People will feel it in their pockets already feeling it. Chemical industry is
collapsing. Car manufacturing is moving production abroad. Energy intensive industries are dying or
being sold out. And normal families yet still applauding. But we all are paying more. All of
us are paying more. And I'm sick of it. I don't see the sense anymore subsidizing and paying for
higher energies. All in the name of ideology that sounds noble but destroys the real economy. It's
not environmentalism, it's self-sabotage. Let me tell you what progress looks like here in Hanok in
my hometown. Active construction sites here in the city. My own street duck up 8 n 10 times in the
last, let's say, 3, four years. Always the same fiber cables, repair work, renewal project, but
always duck up at the same spot every few months. noise, dust, chaos, and then you still get jelled
at by the workers. You get still fined because you park your uh car outside a few centimeters
away because you cannot use your own parking garage because they are redoing the street. So,
I'm questioning myself, where is my taxpayer money going for that? to the same hole being dug up
10 times in the last few years and I have to pay higher energy bills and the internet in the end is
not even really working at my home a lot of times. Leave the city, go rule. You're in a digital
desert. No reception, no signal, no service. Yet, this is a 21st century and we cannot even get
stable internet going here in the fourth largest economy in the world. having tons of constructions
everywhere. It's embarrassing. My wife runs a professional Amazon reselling business.
I have my consulting activities and together we had an online spice startup years ago. So,
I've seen it all. Self-employed business owner, investor. No matter what you do in this country,
I can tell you from the bottom of my heart, bureaucracy and regulations will kill your spirit.
forms, certifications, new regulations, tax paper fillings by hand, CE marks, product marks,
recycling laws, data protection nonsense. Like the list goes on and on. You spend literally 80% of
your daily time filling out paperwork instead of creating, building something. It kills all
your spirit. Digital, forget it. You still print, sign, stamp, mail, and half of the paperwork is
lost anywhere or goes somewhere into the desert. Germany used to be a country back in the day for
investors. Now it's a country for administrators. If you are small, you drown. If you're big,
you hire compliance departments and survive. This is a game, a wrecked game, killing any sort of
innovation in this country. That's exactly how the middle class today, the backbone of this country
is not only being destroyed but sold away to other countries and moving away, killing any sort of
drive, spirit, economical backbone. Every month, every household pays public broadcasting fees.
Whether you watch it in the end are CTF or not, you have to pay for it. If people want to fund it,
fine, let them. But forcing everyone to watch and pay for one political narrative, that's wrong.
You can't call it freedom of media when you punish people for not funding propaganda. That's my view.
That's not democracy. That's control disguised as information. A few weeks ago, someone crashed into
my car. Police came, filed the report. They were angry and mad why they even had to come. Anyway,
all documented, photo, insurance papers, medical notes. Four weeks later now, nothing. I called the
police. They are asking me why am I even calling? They are overworked. The insurance I called. They
didn't even open the mail yet. The police told me on the phone, "We are overworked. We have
better things to do." That is his system today. Everyone is overworked, underpaid, burnt out.
Everything runs on delay, excuses, and apologies. We are stuck in complete bureaucratic collapse and
no one even knows or tries to fix it anymore. In the last decade, I travel a lot for work using the
train, the ban, the Deutsche barn in Germany. Nine out of 10 times, I can tell you from the
bottom of my heart, unfortunately, that train is delayed at least 30 minutes, sometimes 2 hours,
sometimes 4 hours, sometimes 6 hours. And the Deutschan publicly announced yet they
will improve punctuality by 2070. Seriously, in 45 years by 2070. Even if this was true,
how would you even publicly dare to make such an announcement? It is beyond ridiculous. This week
I'm going to Wsburg to Berlin to other cities. My bitter reality is I'm planning already in a
buffer of three to five hours in to my traveling just to make sure I'm on time. How sad is that?
We used to be the land of engineering. Now we can't run train on time. China,
have you seen what they are building? How they are progressing? They are flying and landing to
the moon and they are building infrastructure that is out unthinkable in the world we are living here
in Germany and we can't even fix a train. This is insane. Okay, let's talk about the elephant in the
room because this one really hits me as a father. When I grew up here in Hamburg uh in my hometown,
I could walk and go out anywhere freely to the red light district city center day or night. today. No
chance I would let my kids do that. Go to the main station, day or night, and tell me it's safe. It's
not. It's chaos. It's complete messy. We know the usual suspect that's running around. Drug use in
the open. Fights, gangs, policed, overwhelmed. This isn't a country I grew up in. We know all
the usual suspect that's lingering and loitering around in and around the cities without any
motivation or incentive to change anything. And I get it. Why would they change anything if the
political incentives are not set? If you can stay unconditional, unlimited and without any evidence
of achieving anything. The problem and education one to one the same disaster and reflection of
that. You check schools in your districts. Half of the class cannot even speak German properly.
Teachers burnt out, overworked, desperate. The good ones are leaving, of course. And I'm going
to say it straight and openly. Why do I have to put my kids into a private school to feel safe?
I don't want them in a public school. Not because I look down on anyone. My reality is because I
don't want them to be mocked up for being German. This is my bitter reality. You can't even choose
schools freely. You assigned to them based on your district. You go look them up. You check
them out. you visit and you realize the level of education is totally gone. I'm beyond shocked
the schools I visit publicly to see the level of education and what is running around there. Sorry,
but this is my reality. And you becomes as weak as its weakest link. So if you want quality,
you pay again. Private school, private tutoring, private everything. You already paid through taxes
and yet if you want quality and safe education, you have to pay again. This links perfectly
into the next topic. Something also that no one dares really to mention publicly. Demographics.
People live longer but yet with less and less real purchasing power. Prices rise,
pensions stay the same, and every year gets harder to live with dignity in old age. At the same time,
immigration is flooding our systems. And many young people here tell me they don't even want
to have kids anymore. Not because they don't want or love family. They just say they can't afford
it. Everything's too expensive, too risky, too exhausting in a system that doesn't reward effort
anymore. And while the number of the ones who keep working and pay keep shrinking in number,
the people who are receiving keep growing. It's not about original culture. It's about incentives.
As I said before, if the system rewards those who take instead of those who build,
you already know who will shape this country. And that's not sustainable for anyone. I pay
more than 1,000 nowadays around 1,200 for social security for me, my family per month now. Tenency
rising in the next years it would be way more. But yet in 2023 when I was really really sick,
not just like a flu but really really sick, long co a combination of long co Epstein bar virus and
the nervous system, boreosis and so on and so forth. Everything that actually helped me I had
to pay myself. CT scan only if I force myself through the emergency room. MRT I had to wait
three or four months I believe because only because I was really bad with a heart. sleep
lab. I had a lot of sleeping issues and really needed to go to a sleep lab. I've been waiting
for two and a half years now and still waiting. Still no appointment. I didn't make it yet. Blood
tests the same. They did basic blood tests on me. But everything that told me actually what's wrong,
inflammation markers, hormones, nutrients, I had to pay privately. And public doctors even told
me this, we don't do that. Insurance insurance doesn't cover it. Yet medication prices are off
the charts. The good stuff often not available or you import it yourself. Of course, you have to pay
again privately. It's insane. We are paying for a system that doesn't exist to heal you. It exists
to manage your disease. That is my reality. So, bringing it down, it's either I'm overpaying for
the service received or I need to pay on top of what I really need that cures me. Again,
everywhere you go, people are exhausted. Doctors, teachers, police officers, small business owners,
all say the same. Doesn't matter what we do, nothing changes anyway. That's when collapse
starts. When people stop believing efforts matter. This is the world and the picture I'm
seeing today in our society. and our politicians. We call other countries authoritarian while our
own bureaucrats find people for opinions. We send billions abroad while small businesses collapse.
Politicians smile on talk shows while pretending all is fine. But fine for whom? They live in a
bubble disconnected from reality of normal people. The system is broken. Totally broken. and they the
politicians don't pretend to fix it anymore. And guys, the bottom line is, and I've said it before,
I prefer to live a life in joy than in delusion. Germany needs the pain of realization, the pain
of awakening. Because only when people truly feel it, when it hits their wallet, when they realize
ideology doesn't pay and feed their families, then maybe we will see change. And then when that time
comes and has come, I'm happy to come back and rebuild this country. But until then, I won't
keep funding a broken selfdestructive system with my taxes. A system that I cannot identify
myself with anymore. I'd rather live simply freely without income, without paying taxes, than staying
trapped in delusion. Spain isn't perfect. I get it. Politically, economically, it's all the same
nonsense. But at least there I traded ideology for quality of life. I've just been there now 2 weeks.
The sun outdoor, the friendliness of people, the quality of the service, amazing. And for that,
that's for me a net win. As I said in my earlier videos, this is only a short-term solution and
fix. If Europe keeps going down this road, which unfortunately in my eyes it inevitably will, I see
no other option than moving away even further somewhere where economic freedom still exists,
where proprietary rights are granted, where education works and has a high level, and
where efforts are rewarded again. I'm not leaving because I gave up. I'm leaving because I woke up.
Guys, I don't want to make this part too long now anymore on how to fix things yet. I believe the
most effective reforms are usually the simplest ones. I'm going to suggest a couple ones here,
but I will wrap it up with an overview attached at the end here for to you read
for you to read visibly because I don't want to make this too politically here at this point.
So here are some suggestions that could from my point of view make an immediate difference
and change in this country. Limit politicians to four maximum 8 years of power in office. Make sure
they have worked before in the economy had worked in a business and have business experience. Make
sure their earnings are based and coming mainly from their business activity in the free economy.
We need to align their incentives with the country's incentives and not have them dependent
on their work position. Make them personally liable for their business decisions. Just
like in any business by owners, the decisions they make and the liability they have to follow by law,
it just said one to one to politicians. They cannot freewrite and make decisions irresponsible.
Make all public spending transparent, every euro traceable to the last one. Simplify and digitize
taxes and bureaucracy especially for families there. For example, an easy change would be every
family with a child per child gets a tax reduction of net income of 10%. Flatlin. So a family of with
ch three children who have tons to pay invest money and time in the education for the country
of the children which will be a taxpayer in the future will have the tax benefit of paying 30%
less tax income that would set the int incentives and motivation rights bring transparency into
healthcare every patient should know and understand what each test medicine proposed
action treatment cost is costing in the end and how much the doctors prescribing it are making and
also the insurance just alone that transparency would change a lot because if people would finally
see how the system uses them as cash codes they would understand and would make change evident and
drive that change in the end we need to reform the system in a way that productivity is rewarded and
not compliance I leave this here as a snapshot as such because I don't want this video to run into
a police policy paper. These are simple ideas, but yet I believe they would make a huge difference if
we just had the courage to do them. Please follow the following information for further suggestions.
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