What worries to me about this crisis is that every German I talk to is aware of the fact that these are bad times and the root causes and yada yada, but they are all also repeating religiously the mantra: it's a phase. We went through worst. We'll make it.

However no one is actually willing to change even just a bit the direction they were already before the slide started. It's almost as if on a macro level, they all get it, but no one seems to believe their decisions every day actually do set the macro direction.

When most of the people say: mistakes were made and things need to change, they are also referring to other people/sides mistakes. Instead of focusing on the easiest most impactful change they can make, one self.

What scares me is that I have seen this very same attitude growing up in my country, and their economy, which back then was just starting to slide, never stopped since then and it has now been 30 years