I don’t disagree, but let’s assume the prices for all essential positions rise, wouldn’t they just get filled with people that do currently hold lower paid positions? Do we then also raise the wages for those?

I agree though that raising wages for positions like nurse, teacher, medical doctor, garbage collector are highly needed and would lead to those positions being filled and specialists not going to other countries.

You The point

Only if that’s your only income. And nobody can live from 5.000€ per year

Well, fact is also that most of those that are unemployed are of lower education (this is for people ages 25-34, and ISCED 0-2 led to 8.7% unemployment in 2023 vs 2.9% accross mid and high education.

Now you could of course say, let’s just educate those people and get them to work, but in Germany education is already free, if they could, they would.

Another point is that the qualified positions are often exhausting manual labour, like being a nurse in a retirement home. And on top of that, it’s often positions in places that are not very attractive, which means that you can only pick from the local population, or recruit from abroad, where people are willing to live a simple life in a german village, because they still consider it better than what they have (because of the pay, the security or whatever reasons).

Good for your coworker, but what justifies him not paying taxes on 2.000€ per month, while university students can earn a maximum 556€ per month without paying taxes and social security.

Especially considering that your coworker probably has a considerable wealth built up already, and gets his retirement on top.

DMA/DSA (facebook not being allowed to force “pay or ok”), AI Act for AI regulation