Kevin Karhan Jan 17

Yeah, #ALDI is extremely German and that's how they are growing in the #USA:

  • efficient
  • affordable
  • fast
  • good
  • no bullshit

And #USians finally learn the benefits of that, as #Greedflation kicks in and they need to make due with shrinking net income...

Am I the only one cringing out about the things that #CNBC lists as negatives?

  • Yes you have to bring your own bag or buy one, but those #ShoppingBags at ALDI actually are useful for more than one trip and maybe bunding up trash.
  • The quarter deposit rewards people to put their shopping carts back where they picked them up
  • You ain't supposed to hang out in an ALDI: You go in, grab what you want, checkout, bag your stuff yourself and get home. This isn't an #IKEA!
  • Less selection means less overhead and thus more streamlined operations.
  • ALDI doesn't treat their staff like disposable items or trash.

Seriously, all that "#ServiceCulture" demanded is absurd #cringe because in the #US people ain't willing nor able to pay for that!

#sarcasm #USpol #consumers #Shrinkflation #CostOfLiving #Groceries #Food #retail #food

How Aldi Became America’s Fastest-Growing Supermarket Chain

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Kevin Karhan Nov 10

@Faithslayer202 You mean #Ordoliberalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism

Ordoliberalism - Wikipedia

Show threadKevin Karhan Jul 28, 2025

@girlonthenet also evidence clearly shows that having proper #SocialSecurity and an #UBI will be offset dozenfold by having happier, healtier and more productive as well as more able to participate in society (and not just consume) than the cost of not doing anything and policing homeless folks.

  • So even if we're "despicable excuses for human beings" (aka. #Banksters) that reduce people to their abilitiy to generate taxable income and consume, the math would still demand abolishment of *"#Neoliberalism is not #Capitalism for #Ordoliberalism or an egalitarian society.
SPQRDec 11, 2024
She deepened Germany’s economic dependency on China and its energy dependency on Russia while abandoning nuclear power; she underinvested in German security and defense; she delayed long-overdue domestic reforms and investments in areas such as education and infrastructure; and her migration policy sowed the seeds for the success of the right-wing extremist party Alternative for Germany.
#memoirs #Germany #Europe #BookReview #Ordoliberalism #politics #history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/11/29/angela-merkel-freedom-memoir-review/
Angela Merkel makes her case in ‘Freedom’

The former German chancellor’s memoir recounts her early life and defends her 16 years leading the country

The Washington Post
Show threadabolitionniste 🇪🇺Mar 9, 2024

I am looking for experts / spokepersons on different fields who are inhabitants or citizens of the #EU and love it. Here the field is #economy (?) and includes the topic of @sjwrenlewis and the German debt obsession, #ordoliberalism (?) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory and whatever. I want to choose a person or persons and then follow them in direction of interest, selection of facts and opinions.

https://eupolicy.social/@Veza85UE/112064603303572780 https://toot.community/@pmroman/112064751270543668

@AliceStollmeyer @pmroman @michaelzemmour @Veza85UE

Modern monetary theory - Wikipedia

Show threadabolitionniste 🇪🇺Mar 8, 2024

Who are the #EU experts / spokespersons on #EconEU #ordoliberalism #monetary ... ? Here is a blog-post from 🇬🇧 and I read and link it because of the "experiment" they have been going through.

"Almost 15 years of trying to reduce taxes, and complete failure."

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-14-years-have-shown-impossibility.html

https://econtwitter.net/@sjwrenlewis/112059293081882703

@AliceStollmeyer @michaelzemmour @sjwrenlewis @Veza85UE

How 14 years have shown the impossibility of shrinking the UK state

  The Budget was predictable, and predictably boring. Hunt cut taxes, but the tax burden is still rising because of the tax increases alread...

Show threadabolitionniste 🇪🇺Feb 20, 2024

@jmaris , have been thinking about this "buy versus produce" #ammo #shells ...

Do "buy" and "produce" exclude each other? Is there some rational reasoning why we can't do both?

Touches on #ordoliberalism of @Veza85UE ...

#Ukraine #GeoEU

Show threadabolitionniste 🇪🇺Jan 12, 2024

en: https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/interview/eu-ready-to-take-risks-to-boost-defence-production-breton-says/

de: https://www.euractiv.de/section/eu-aussenpolitik/interview/thierry-breton-eu-bei-ruestungsproduktion-bereit-risiken-einzugehen/

#MyEU #GeoEU #OrdoLiberalism

EU 'ready to take risks' to boost defence production, Breton says

The EU should invest upfront into the bloc's defence industry production capacity as a means to de-risk their

EURACTIV
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋Oct 2, 2023
Kolev, S. (2023). WHEN LIBERTY PRESUPPOSES ORDER: F. A. HAYEK’S CONTEXTUAL ORDOLIBERALISM. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1-24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837223000214 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Economics #Histodon #Histodons #Hayek #Ordoliberalism @histodon @histodons @historyofeconomics
Show threadKevin Karhan Aug 7, 2023

@housepanther @DamienMarieAtHope

And despite this basic open-ended-ness that allows the state to basically take any property and just reimburse owners for doing so, investors ain't spooked, economy hasn't crashed and we ain't some communist dystopia as pictured in cold war propaganda.

In fact Germany is still rated best for lenders with a AAA+ rating.

#Ordoliberalism does work and I think we need more of regulation than less...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism

Ordoliberalism - Wikipedia