Im thinking that the imported 24-30 year olds are vastly less skilled and productive than native Germans, and will never approach German productivity.
And that they will also have a multiple of the native German unemployment rate.
These sorts of things are a bigger deal than even missing some years of pension contributions.
You are right about Germans being surprisingly poorly paid, vs their reputation for productivity.
Having watched the whole event unfold over the past four years...I’d say that of million-odd immigrants who will get the visa...probably 10-percent will have a degree, craft, or occupation that enables them to fit into the German system. The rest are dependent upon job training deals.
A lot of these folks will end up as burger-flippers, UPS-drivers, or warehouse people....making minimum wage. All of this will stir up their feelings in five to ten years as they realize that they have a dead-end job by age twenty-five and will never make more than minimum wage....in a country that is extremely costly to survive.
The national minimum wage situation should have gone up three or four years ago...but thanks to the new arrivals...I think the current minimum wage of 8.50 an hour will be around for another five to eight years. It’s only creating more problems down the line.
Once the robot/automation deal starts to occur with American burger operations...a lot of these guys will be let go in Germany as the new technology gets installed here.
Of all countries to go and think that immigration will be a cake-walk...I’d rank Germany near the absolute bottom. But they were the only ones with the door completely open and all these benefits offered.