to get the right answers but to ask questions. we're not here to indoctrinate but to listen. plus ninety connect to an unbiased agenda subscribe now on you tube. from rich oil nation to crisis state venezuela descends into chaos we take a look at how one of latin america's most prosperous countries hit rock bottom. also on the show today is labor day and we need to the founder of a start up where employees dictate their working hours. but have to do business and we're starting across the atlantic where german foreign minister must

is on a three day tour of latin america fostering business ties is among the top items on his agenda a lot of america has long been an important market for german companies big names like siemens fox wagner and bosch have had a foothold there for years now they along with dozens of other german firms account for some five hundred and fifty seventy five thousand jobs in the region the german business is the biggest investment opportunities are in infrastructure and renewable energy but german firms are also interested in raw materials especially in lissie him which is used to make batteries for electric cars and that in america currently accounts for sixty percent of global production as germany continues its quest to switch entirely to renewable energy investment in the areas expected to expand significantly oil rich venezuela is not caught off. sure but

he warned against an armed conflict there as the country descends into political and economic chaos. venezuelans have had enough and they want change now over the last five years their economy has been in a freefall. the country's g.d.p. has been tumbling the venezuelan economy has been declining since twenty thirteen the decrease has been in the double digits in recent years it hit eighteen percent in twenty eighteen. and venezuela is now home to the highest inflation in the world the country's hyperinflation is at a staggering ten million percent imagine the cost of something going from one dollar to one hundred thousand dollars within days. the economy has imploded and the countryside is especially badly hit farm animals are dying the

agricultural sector has buckled. we cannot feed our life stock pumps refrigerators milk tanks don't work we cannot produce anymore we can't run our farms without electricity. at a time when venezuela's farmers are most needed their ability to reproductive has been shattered just one of the reasons ordinary food items are now a luxury oil rich venezuela was once one of south america's wealthiest nations and it is now among the region's poorest. unrest also on the streets of argentina where tens of thousands have taken to the streets to protest president. austerity drive labor unions began a twenty four hour partial strike that brought to the country to a standstill. subway and its airport were shut down

but out in the streets demonstrators vented their frustrations. government officials do not understand anything they live in another reality but the reality of the workers is how the dismissal and threats. the conservative government scrapped costly subsidies for water gas and public transport and prices have exploded but the reforms haven't turned around argentina's economy the recession is hitting hard with inflation over fifty percent workers at this pharmacy see the choices people are forced to make. sometimes customers ask me how much their medicine costs to see what they can afford to take they often become angry but sometimes they're just resigned that they're not able to afford all their treatment. that. many here fear a crisis like in venezuela the i.m.f. is still backing argentina with credits with billions of euros but it's demanding

president machree stay the course with the tough reforms that are so unpopular. it's may day a national holiday here in germany with thousands attending marches to campaign for celebrate rights but i doubt that employ he's a playbill and stop quote einhorn or unicorn go and protest they can to this when they come to work and they don't take orders from the boss take a look. begin condoms in colorful packaging as well as temperance and sanitary napkins are among the products offered by horn on paper the founders waldemar tyler and philip z. for are still the managing directors but none of the company's sixteen employees have to take orders from them it's even written in their contracts this is the man who will miss everything we do is basically what respectable business people used to do by doing business with a conscience it works and it's possible to be successful it's just about redistribution we're highly profitable even though we reinvest everything into

creating value despite treating everyone fairly we still post millions of euros in sales. last year sells rose to two point three million euros even though the office is almost empty this morning nobody knows when the others are coming and nobody checks bottom outside the says when employees love their jobs they don't have to be supervised like children. i've never been so happy about a job it's really something special and we're all motivated we're happy to go to work and everybody's glad to get up in the morning that's what we have here. from the designer to the person processing online orders einhorn says satisfied to have to get seventy five to eighty percent of the pie we just want to share we deserve and share the rest with the time a salary committee determines pay levels according to professional experience and education it also decides how much the founders earn. this decision is.

it's important for the salary committee to always keep the team in mind so everyone feels they are being treated fairly but of course it has to take each individual into account as well and. that requires a lot of coordination working without a boss can be a challenge. constance feels that you can really run free and have a lot of creative ideas but you are responsible for implementing them the best way to do that is by inspiring the whole team with your enthusiasm and sometimes that's not at all easy. some employees in a special unit speak at events about the new work culture but while many companies just talk about what work will look like in the future at einhorn they are already trying it out.

interesting concept joining me now in the studio is philip cif co-founder and chief executive of einhorn or unicorn as we translated it for all of us watching it i see a lot of smiling people and given the fact that this is also financially successful your concept jr stunned why they still exist nine to five jobs well of course there's always new concepts coming up and then there's old concepts that don't go away that fast but i think the world is moving and there will be more and more companies i mean companies are working and new work is a big trend so it's not just us doing this but does this does attract mostly young people or is this kind of flexible workplace model that we've seen also now in the video is that something also for the elder generation absolutely i think young people are doing it this is a home like trend start that young people start taking over something and then they live like they want to live and if but if you see who visits our office to book

like a startup safari and see how we work how i understand your office that's all people mostly. and they can visit us like it's like a start of the week you know mercy just comes by and then they say look what i'm doing and then they try to find out and copy and yeah i'm hoping the next question could i mean you'll start out we talked about it it's about twenty employees that you're having so that it's not a huge company it can that what pays model that you have to be a plute print for bigger companies like mercedes big corporates with that work well i think it's not a blueprint at the moment it's like we're building a house and there's no blueprint and we don't know how the house looks in the end but we will have a blueprint when the house is built and now it's a work in progress but of course there's a lot of things that we do that you can adapt to companies that. additional companies too like what like partnership instead of transaction like and

like on a ship within the employee within the staff or with. ok if you work with other companies start ups to digitally try to get everything out and move very quickly and if you don't pay the right price then we just take the next and we tried to boots actually that's something we took from the old world because it's very attractive to work with partners for a long time and rely on each other so more sustainability and that in that sense as well even though it's a fast moving modern world i would be interested in just a couple of details that we touched upon in that in that film i mean employees can basically say how much they want to and they can say when they come in now i start my shift at five in the morning if i had a say in it i would probably not do it how do you get people doing things like that well if you do what you know of you gets out what you put in you know and if you really love your job then it's probably fine to get up to five in the morning right so if you but like in all of just sixteen for example people don't like to come to

work early in the morning so we said do condoms and all the products really need to arrive the next morning no they don't so if you come to work at eleven that's fine for us so if you say i would like to have the show in the afternoon maybe that would work but i think it's just. all you move to california it's a different times and i think that'll be it will make all the difference what about pay you know if i go in and i say ok i have a very specific idea what i want to i mean how do you. find out what is the right amount of salary we have like if it's a big x. or sheet and it says how many kids do you have do you have grandparents do you have a dog had to do you have special needs or anything and then how much experience what you just started to do you have any education and then we calculate the number and we said. there's that magic needs and also we have like a triple is the maximum you can earn to the highest so there's some rules that we

apply then we have this cons. of people who voted for the father wage the very democratic approach as well but i believe it also takes a lot of sort of people that take the initiative and don't mind leading themselves they're interesting concept they have the founder and chief executive of einhorn or unique an ability based startup thank you so much for your time thank you. and that is your business update here on the d w from me and the team in berlin as always thanks for giving us company the for.

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the death of leonardo da vinci we look into the legacy of the tuscan master. artists in poland have taken to the street and to social media to protest the decision to remove a video installation from the national museum in warsaw the video in question by a prominent artist natalia l l dates from one thousand nine hundred seventy three and depicts a young woman eating a banana in a suggestive way well although it's been on display for many years conservative authorities have now branded it obscene sparking concerns that artistic freedom is under threat. occasionally protesting can be at tasty affair hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the polish national museum in warsaw to eat bananas together. all in the name of artistic freedom. we fully

reject censorship in art over the past few years our freedoms have been increasingly compromised and now it's our turn look at this we have a we are protesting against the removal of our freedom of speech artistic freedom. the debate centers around this installation by leading polish concept artist natalia el al in one nine hundred seventy three she photographed and filmed herself sent to eating a banana for six years the installation has been on display at the national museum now it's been taken down that's gold many under the hash tag banana selfie exasperated polls have been posting pictures of themselves with a banana including many celebrity artists and generalists the museum's new head. appointed by the conservative peace party says the work is a potential danger to young people. this is the national museum as such it's not the place for gender related content to be so explicitly portrayed. the protests

are having an effect even before the demo the national museum and now state would put the artwork back on display but many here skeptical. it's likely to end up in one of the museum storerooms i have no illusions about the museums head and his decision. and the museum says this won't be the last time it may remove works from its exhibition. and joining me now in the studio is my colleague adrian kennedy from the culture to talk about this welcome adrian tell us a bit about the artist at the center of this controversy of a quite high profile they are very high profile. better known as natalia of course has been star of the polish scene for fifty years the world. but this is a piece from the early seventy's conceives is a challenge to the conservatism of the communist regime that ruled poland at the time and of course a christian some of the food shortages that prevailed pap.