in terms of steroid. use the other way. to rule the environment isn't recyclable. make up your own mind. w. made for minds. soldiering on that's pretty much all we can do until the world's been vaccinated the pandemic continues to pound economies companies and individuals at the moment the coronaviruses still winning the race but taking it one hurdle at a time a lot of patience and perseverance and a dash of creativity could just get you to the finish line

a topic today on made confronting the crisis i've been fizzling great to have you along. it all really depends upon where you're sitting on your perspective because in the regular business world you're told success doesn't come without failure any successful entrepreneur will have gone bankrupt or flopped in their 1st attempts to get a company up and running in this special case the great lock down a heap of old folding at the same time it's unprecedented but it means everyone's in the same boat and it will be the business people who can pick themselves back up again frauds. this is one of the places we used to work in before the pandemic. we used to clean one vent venue's cups for the tar lots of conferences and concerts here and because of the pandemic there's nothing going on now it hit my company hard part i didn't just clean venues

but offices as well i need to make a final thought on arts much to be was. people started working from home offices didn't have to be cleaned from one day to the next 100 or more. it's not like i did anything wrong. my business was going well i had a good team good staff so in the beginning there were times it felt like a bitter pill to swallow. and in the beginning i didn't feel i had the energy to do much about it and. but i'm not someone to give up easily i refer to get up and fight especially as everything had been going so well. and then suddenly you're confronted with something like that even height. you have to seize the initiative so

i decided to concentrate on and just real climbing when cynthia by his arch boss it's fun a cool job and you work in the open air on a team with one or 2 others and we could still do it without restrictions. my object is you work with the same team on a regular basis. and then you hang out with them after work as well shouldn't under this it's not like any other job it's a different kind of relationship where you depend on your colleagues and just leave much of your life is in their hands it's the most important thing is to make sure nobody and none of the equipment takes a fall and act like a fool. you do a partner check your totally concentrated and the adrenaline surges it's all part of the job it's amazing fun it's incredibly intense that stops your headphones and possible from just one feed. this year is all about

mobile phone masts we have lots of work the mobile phone industry is going to be a major issue in the next few years what with 5 g. and all the areas in germany that still don't have fast internet i see of lot of potential here and a great future i'm going to. see you put into. this. we are in north east germany and we're building a 45 meter mast. or a. team of industrial climbers are a. mints and bolting them together all them. years and we're under video shoot for the musician junkie cat and we're involved in

ensuring safety we're up really high income. and he's going to position himself on the corner he's going to sit there it's a dangerous place to be so he definitely has to wear safety harness and be secured by industrial climbers so that it all goes well past. check. your blood will stay here until it's around and we've all come down from the roof in one piece. and the object of my dreams is the pearl in t.v. tower i think every climber would like a gig on the television tower it must be amazing to work at such a great height maybe one day i will.

well not everyone can turn a disaster into something amazing but it doesn't help when you're up against the maze of iraq or see in some countries it's next business woman accuses the german government of a shoddy job handing out financial aid during a crisis she says has been poorly organized and slow to arrive i've stopped counting the number of places that are simply out of pocket and i've had to shut up the shops germany's association of young entrepreneurs is calling on the government to set out a clear exit strategy for the current restrictions on doing business. on february the 16th during germany 2nd block down young entrepreneurs gathered outside the economics ministry in berlin to demonstrate not your typical protesters but they're worried that finance minister is putting their family businesses at risk is this ted said to be a few time in

a lot of family businesses are truly at breaking point and mr schultz promised swift financial aid with minimal paperwork which. has utterly failed to materialize as well just to be a good boy. i mean a new mom you know i encourage a lot of family businesses have used up their capital reserves and are still waiting for financial aid. down given all the uncertainty about how the government is dealing with the crisis and all the arbitrary decisions that are being made the association of young entrepreneurs decided it was time to take to the streets and demonstrate. you shot it in mrs wood just yet. during the lockdown city centers across germany have been deserted all kinds of businesses are hurting and feel that they have been abandoned by the government. even though the government's financial aid package in response to the pandemic looks pretty huge by february it had made

85000000000 euros and vailable to companies isn't that enough. i'm human and human for the association of young entrepreneurs represents more than 6 and a half 1000 family businesses and a broad range of sectors climate change when i'm constantly taking calls from worried business people who don't know how to keep paying their overheads that it isn't easy to close they do stuff like capital reserves. and i think the financial aid just isn't arriving. a lot of businesses are about to go on that was well and it's the government's fault because it's failed to cut the red tape and act swiftly . and had. in a survey conducted by the german association for small and medium sized businesses 60 percent of those asked said that they had applying for financial aid from the government but of those 7 out of 10 said the application process involves bureaucratic hurdles and there was a consensus that the worst is yet to come. in normal tim at least someone is going

to have to pay the massive bill that the crisis is bringing up and that will be us the next generation need union it will hit all businesses and our employees that's why we need to get our priorities straight and decide how our taxes should be spent yeah we need to invest in the future and not in the past we have to invest in innovation education infrastructure that's what we need to focus on if we want to avoid startling coming generations with a mountain of debt insured by. the crisis is about masking the weaknesses of free market ideology a key myth of capitalism is that free markets and small government a key to progress and prosperity but as we've seen businesses are collapsing in the pandemic and governments that taking center stage so is the political economy in need of a major overhaul could be time to rethink economics. since

the 1970 s. western economic theory has been dominated by the idea that the principle of supply and demand to regulate the market. 18th century scottish economist adam smith used the term invisible hand to describe how beneficial it konami outcomes could be generated by individuals acting out of self interest. economic noble laureate. one higher postulated in 1944 that any kind of state interference in a free market economy was the road to serfdom for high it is seen as the godfather of neo liberalism. but how's that theory fairing in the real world of the pandemic then the economy isn't in any way self healing it's on life support funded by hundreds of billions of state debt there's no more talk of privatisation financial survival is all that counts. supply chains have been devastated as borders were

closed or travel restricted. toilet paper shortages were followed by shortages of noodles medical face masks and protective clothing and even the production of vaccines that the world so desperately needs is only gradually being ramped up hospitals are short of intensive care beds and there are too few i.c.u. staff even in which countries and why because it was all only ever about profit efficiency and cost cutting self-regulation all self healing no longer possible the coronavirus has also exacerbated inequality worldwide within 9 months the world's 1000 richest billionaires recruit the losses they made as a result of the pandemic the world's poorest will need over a decade to return to prepare demick levels so how can economies recover from covert 19 there are plenty of ideas regionalization instead of globalization cooperation instead of competence. and universal basic income rather than

performance related pay. can the state replace free markets well extremes are never healthy competition does well with things like shoes champagne or luxury watches but not so much when it comes to universal health care. it takes a healthy balance between state and market like the dualism of yin and yang the best medicine for sick economies. one of the best things during this crisis is having moved so much of our work lives online are having to commute every day being able to access everything at the touch of a button taking calls and joining meetings from bicycle while doing the gardening or baking a cake. but not everyone around the globe is connected to the net 40 percent of the population is still offline that's a lot. waiting and waiting

jack mahinda in my humble has a really lousy internet connection he lives in sucking in the democratic republic of the congo. some. weight. much more. boats can take given they did. the documentary filmmaker doesn't have time for this his european clients need his files now but jack has to cross over into the neighboring country to send them through wonders digital infrastructure is much better it's a 4 hour journey just to upload a few photos or to cross the border to board members going through just to put into. words this is. the world economic forum's global risks report warns that countries with patchy internet access could fall

behind economically the internet is a necessity to any place in the it and never was and it was communities to tap into whether it is education systems that they did not have access to or healthcare systems that they would otherwise have no access to and cultural markets to produce that they would have no access to but the digital divide is enormous and if you're on the wrong side of it he'll be denied these opportunities the key element in the digital divide is internet access 40 percent of the world's population is still offline in some african countries it's up to 80 percent. in other places it's less about access to technology it's about knowledge of technology and there's a kind of concept especially in a lot of technological the district's the technology driven industry is a code pursuit and that's about understanding how technology works. really half

research is reckoned that by 202550 percent of work will be done by humans and 50 percent by machines in many cases signed by scientists there's also a digital divide in the industrialized world in a lot of. the locked out. by the lockdowns which we've had worldwide have unleashed an immense surge of digitalisation which i believe will be a lasting one go with us. this search will continue in the post pandemic era as well and will involve a complete reshuffle distribution and re-evaluation of starting work processes for thai don't i don't know if you act on fund. adverts but says millions of jobs could soon be history researchers say more will be created but they'll be different types of jobs altogether the problem 60 percent of the world's population work in the so-called informal sector with no contract or further training opportunities what kind of a future did play have in

a digital world. so for example if you work in the cape economy you may actually not be working for a company you may be working for an application not because of that distributes work that you may respond to your a taxi driver or maybe you're a food delivery service person so so those kind of situations are you being controlled by the it could be or it can work out that people are almost like slaves to the algorithm if you don't get up to speed you'll be left behind because the digital divide is widening. the tourism industry is only just starting to pick up again in some parts of the world as case numbers subside and restrictions but the damage has been done spain is a popular holiday destination for europeans but places like the seaside resort of benidorm have been turned into ghost towns on the costa blanca tourism normally accounts for a 3rd of economic output and the busy easter season looks set to fail. benidorm

on the costa blanca is the stronghold of mass tourism in spain. it used to clock up over 16000000 overnight stays put here in hotels for cation apartments and campsites on a normal summer's day around 40000 visitors would throng the beaches. but these record numbers are now a thing of the past the pandemic has hit spain's largest beach resort with full force. almost all of the nearly 200 hotels in benidorm are closed. for fear there who's dead business has almost ground to a halt. normally his hotel would have around 75 percent occupancy at this time of year. but recently there were more employees than guests in his hotel he can only dream of state aid like in germany. spain is

devoting only 3 percent of its g.d.p. to helping businesses that's significantly less than the e.u. average and that needs to change because brain can't function without its tourism industry it's the main engine of job creation employing 20 percent of all workers in the country. closed no and many cafes on the sea front have shut down even though authorities have allowed at least outdoor terraces to open. all going to see it is afraid that she too could lose her job. some 15000 jobs in the region's tourism industry are in jeopardy. tens of thousands have been on short time work for months and can barely survive on it. it's out of your wages in the industry a precarious all over spain meaning white stuff down around 1200 euros in. short

time work is only 70 percent of income so what's left over and rents here are very expensive about $500.00 to $600.00 euros a month on average. in the center of benidorm the streets of being disinfected normally this is the party mild especially popular with british tourists now there's blue instead of fiesta. most of the stores are closed not because of the lockdown but for lack of customers . almost any of us sells ham. he spends most of the day alone in his shop. he sells more much and dies online now which is the only thing keeping him afloat. which are quite

a few stores bars and restaurants are closing permanently because they can't keep going many people started businesses in benidorm invested 50 or 100000 euros now they're having to give it all up because the landlords aren't willing to reduce the commercial rents. lease seno garcia worked his way up from chef to restaurant. he's had no income for months now and is worried that benidorm is about to see a wave of bankruptcies. the vulture funds and other affluent people will take advantage of this to buy it knock down prices what we have built with a lot of effort. has. made the situation is really difficult and the time will come when we'll be out on the street watching our life's work become smoke and mirrors. another. the only ray of hope for. benidorm is that there's been talk of possibly

easing travel restrictions from the u.k. in mid may. it will likely take gives for the result to recover from the coronavirus crisis. and of course it's not just in spain hotel and catering industry has been hit hard all over the world here in berlin restaurants and cafes have either been forced to close or a during take away only many businesses are on the verge of collapse a few brave berliners have actually opened a new businesses in the middle of the crisis despite all the wrists. keera lawyer least a hotel during the pandemic most of her rooms are empty. no one's checking in today tonga henning has just opened a restaurant but she has no guests our circle prices brings opportunities and as a team we want to just seize the moment. and we can keep this up much longer. having her own hotel was

a dream come true for here knowing and she enjoys chatting to the few guests that come. despite the pandemic lloyd took the plunge and invested a lot of money. but her hotel's occupancy rate is now just $0.12. we didn't expect things to be this and of course we're unsure we're worried about what the future will bring. life partner patrick went into the business together. is now in the middle of the crisis we're real support for each other i think on our own each of us would probably have given up already. had. together they put several 100000 euros into giving the hotel interior a make over they used all their savings and money from the family to.

target henning was thrilled when he was able to rent the restaurant he long dreamed of in downtown berlin. and even though he has no guests right now and only takeaway orders ever allowed for him it's a huge stroke of luck. this is an opportunity if you look at the place it was just nowhere else like it in berlin and when you get that chance you have to grab it or you can't do anything else. in the kitchen only opens at lunchtime from thursday to sunday the other days they just do what they can. yeah i'm just known as a team we've got to know each other in this time and you know what it makes each other take we're also met with the processes involved in the business and the point of sale system accounting etc it's all been a slow introduction. they're doing the basement tell me how parties. are. heading and gave up

a well paid job as a manager in real estate to pursue his restaurant dream. now he's living off his savings. from that i'm back to the corona virus into our calculations we also took it into account during contract negotiations the owners accommodated is extremely well they 100 of land demick clause in our contract. you sign a contract for 10 years you know things are hard for you $23.00 or maybe 4 months at the beginning that's the blink of an eye compared to that 10 year contract and to do continue on. a is also optimistic for now. we have no regrets about taking this step this crisis in particular has brought us closer as a team we've grown together and taken the hurdles together is

a good start. one of their regular guests popped by recently with a surprise and. we were there during a difficult time for his want to know that we're not doing so well with a covert crisis he suddenly appeared at the reception and handed us a box containing little gifts. and a donation of 2000 euros. and $5000.00 or one hour that was really a lot of money for him it was very generous and we were just incredibly touched i was moved to tears that someone could be so kind at a time like this and one to supporters outside of france to come ons. 'd and her partner say they can hold out until april but after that they may well have to give up on their dreams. i think they would have to throw the towel that depends on their own initiative and the support they get that sofa made today.

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