Now please keep in mind that I understand that this is a kind of a confusing header or title for this post. But this is about both businesses losing money and the result of those businesses closing up with the concern of other things happening is causing the consideration of emigration. So they are connected. I found out that Volks Wagon, Mercedes, and some chemical companies in Germany are now laying off people, and the total number is in the double digits. All together in the last few years, it is possible that the layoffs may now be in the triple digits. Unfortunately, right now I don't have the specific data with me that I can share with you, but the information that I was given, through a friend of mine who is very much connected through Facebook, and through, I believe, is also Telegram, now called X, and a few other resources online, that are pretty accurate; they have shown that the numbers for the last few years have definitely increased significantly for layoffs, and, the amount of jobs that have been created is not anywhere near what the layoffs are. So, yes, Germany is actually having a major issue right now with the job market, and as the politicians would say, we are suffering from de-industrialization. But, this cause is due to some hidden group forcing a huge price increase of energy.
The other curious problem that I'm starting to hear from other friends besides this one. and it's a different range from people who are in their twenties to their forties to their sixties, are all saying kind of the same thing, but they're not saying it exactly the same. It's not verbatim, but it's close. And that is that a lot of people are thinking that they better leave Germany soon if they have the ability to. Now I'm not saying that they will leave Germany, and I don't think they're declaring the fact that they will and intend to do so, and they have a plan. It's more along the lines of they are considering their options realistically, and their time frame, I think is basically between this year and next year. They are expecting either nothing to happen or they're expecting something quite dramatic. But whether or not it's what falls in between, it's kind of the scope of the decision. They don't know. If nothing happens, they stay. If it gets severe, well, then they are mentally preparing themselves right now for what may come. So right now, things are kind of in the I I don't remember what the analogy would be for this, but things are kind of on standby.
