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There are several reasons to this.

"Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahme" (job creation) is a one. Amount of people employed has higher priority than efficiency. So instead of having 5 people doing everything efficiently companies hire 50 to do everything manually for food. If the company wants to do things efficiently, the other reason kicks in: psychological inability to pay competitive salary, so most of the companies in Germany don't have access to competent engineers and management.




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