Police always encounter all the problems society fails to solve and dumps it on their lap. It’s perfectly understandable when they become jaded, callous, and so on. They do the work they are ordered to, but the problems never become better.

They signed up to deport violent criminals, but only get to arrest the harmless ones.

Germany lost a significant part of their eastern territory in WW1 and then again even more in WW2. Millions of Germans were ethnically cleansed from east of the Oder river where they had lived for centuries. Millions died during this. Half of what’s now Poland used to be Germany. Kaliningrad/Königsberg and Gdańsk/Danzig used to be major German cities.

Occupation of Germany split in two continued until 1990. In Western Germany the Allied Control Council curtailed Germany‘s sovereignty as well.

There were also restrictions on technology and industry for example aerospace, where Germany had been leading in some areas. Germany was severely damaged in many ways. Berlin still hasn’t reached the same population level it had in 1942 for example.

The Soviets suffered more death and destruction during WW2, but they were taking good advantage of their new powerful position as a superpower. Remember that Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union at the same time. Ethnic cleansing and forced resettlement of millions was a common policy in the Soviet Union.

Europe doesn’t rely as much on illegal immigrants for the labor market. The structure is different.

Sure. What I don’t get is Fairphone not building a high end device.

Assembling a 1500 € phone should cost about the same as a 600 € phone. A more expensive phone also gives a bigger margin to work with to pay for all the extra labor and other „fair“ costs.

Then a Fairphone could become a status symbol as well.

The hardware specs have always been mediocre on the Fairphone. Buying a high end phone will get you more years from the same phone.

Enpass works well for me.