got some tips for your bucket list. manticore's. for food. and some great country memorials to boot. 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 coronaviruses to 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 physical and 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 up for no will have gone bankrupt or flopped in their 1st attempts to get a company up and running in this special case the great lockdown i hate 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 will thrive. 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 is nothing going on now it hit my company hard hit my didn't just clean venues but offices as

well even when you make a final thought are not so much to be was. people started working from home offices didn't have to be cleaned from one day to the next 100 of mall. 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 prefer 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 and cynthia by his arch boss

it's fun a cool job you work in the open air in a team with one or 2 others and we could still do it without restrictions. and. you work with the same team on a regular basis. and then you hang out with them after work as well because 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. the most important thing is to make sure nobody and none of the equipment takes a fall and act like a good thing. you do a partner check your totally concentrated and the adrenaline surges it's all part of the job and it's amazing fun it's incredibly intense it stops the headphones and if 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. going to. dollars each year put in selling things. we're in north east germany and we're building a 45 meter mast. or a. team of industrial. climbers are assembling the segments and bolting them together on. my. ear and a video shoot for the musician junky cat and we're involved in ensuring safety of

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 us industrial climbers so that it all goes well. will stay here until it's around and we've all come down from the roof in one piece . just. the object of my dreams is the berlin 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.

everyone can turn a disaster into something amazing but it doesn't help when you're up against the maze of bureaucracy in some countries it's no business woman accuses the german government of a shoddy job handing out financial aid during the crisis she says has been wholly 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 their shops germany's association of young entrepreneurs is calling on the government to set out a clear exit strategy from the current restrictions on doing business. on february the 16th during germany 2nd lockdown 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 tent city if you're in time you know lots 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. yes i mean it in your home you know income it's a lot of family businesses have used up their capital reserves and are still waiting for financial aid. down even 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 missing what does. 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 that had demick looks pretty huge by february it had

made 85000000000 euros and vailable to companies isn't that enough. but in human and human from the association of young entrepreneurs represents more than 6 and a half 1000 family businesses and a broad range of sectors common when i'm constantly taking calls from worried businesspeople who don't know how to keep paying their overheads it isn't easy to close they do stuff like capital reserves. i think the financial aid just isn't arriving. a lot of businesses are about to go on. and it's the government's fault because it's failed to cut the red tape and swiftly haven't had. in a survey conducted by the german association for small and medium sized businesses 60 percent of those asked said that they had applied 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 to me at least someone is

going to have to pay the massive bill that the crisis is running up and that will be us the next generation needed the new mitt 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. to need to invest in the future and not in the past you want and we have to invest in innovation education infrastructure that's what we need to focus on if we want to avoid saddling coming generations with a mountain of debt. 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 business is a collapsing of the pandemic and governments the taking center stage so is the political economy in need of a major overhaul it 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 regulates the market. 18th century scottish economist adam smith use 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 new year 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 talk of privatization 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 recoup 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 that having to commute every day being able to access everything at the touch of a button taking calls and joining meetings from my bicycle while doing the gardening or baking a cake of all the tasks but not everyone around the globe is connected to the net 40 percent of the population is still offline that's a lot. waiting waiting and waiting

jack mahinda my hamburger has a really lousy internet connection he lives in soc a in the democratic republic of the congo. much more and the boats can take given a 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 murder country just to put into. words to soothe 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 and that was 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 it would have no access to but the digital divide is enormous and if you're on the wrong side of it he'll be did night is 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 industries the technology driven in the streets of code and that's about understanding how technology works. w a f research is reckoned that by 202550 percent of work will be done by humans and

50 percent by machines in many cases signed by signs but there's also a digital divide in the industrialized world in a lot of. the lockdowns used by the lockdowns which we've had worldwide of unleashed an immense surge of digitalisation which i believe will be a lasting one go with. this search will continue in the post pandemic era as well. and will involve a complete reshuffle distribution and reevaluation of starting work processes i don't i don't know if you had some fun. millions of jobs could soon be history research is saying more will be created but they'll be different types of jobs all together 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 the digital world. so for example if

you work in the bigger 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 of maybe your food delivery service person so so those kind of situations are you being controlled by the it could be or it can work out the people are almost like slaves to the algorithm if you don't get up to speed you'll be left behind to me 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 ease 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 cost of blanket is the stronghold of mass tourism in spain. it used to clock up over $16000000.00 overnight stays per year in hotels for cation apartments and campsites on a normal summer's day around $40000.00 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 a figure who stead of 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 significantly less than the e.u. average but that needs to change because spain 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 know and many cafes on the sea front have shut down even their wealth or attains 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 found around $1200.00 euros in.

short time was only 70 percent of income so what's left over and rent simmer very expensive about $500.00 to $600.00 euros a month on average. in the center of it all of 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 . tomasetti of us sells ham. he spends most of the day alone in his shop. he sells more much and dies on line now which is the only thing keeping him afloat. there's. more 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. worked his way up from chef to restaurant owner. 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.

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 but it will likely take years for the resort to recover from the coronavirus crisis. and of course it's not just in spain hotel a catering industry has been hit hard all over the world here in berlin restaurants and cafes or be the being forced to close or a during take away only many businesses are on the verge of collapse we've met a few brace berliners who've actually opened new businesses in the middle of the crisis despite all the wrists. caraway least the hotel during the pandemic most of have rooms are empty chickens no one's checking in today tonga handing has just opened a restaurant but he has no guests are sick a crisis 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 in no way and she enjoys chatting to the few guests that come. out despite the pandemic lloyd took the plunge and invested a lot of money. but her hotel's oaky pencey 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. 'd life partner patrick went into the business together. is now in the middle of the crisis were 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 new store their savings some money from the family to.

tonga heading was thrilled when he was able to rent the restaurant long dreamed of in the downtown. and even though he has no guests right now and take away all that is ever allowed for him it's a huge stroke of luck. this is an opportunity if you look at the place there's 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 makes each other take we're all so many familiar with the processes involved in the business and the sale system accounting etc it's all been a slow introduction. they're doing in the basement now parties. are. heading gave up

a well paid job as a manager in real estate to pursue his restaurant dream. now he's living off his savings. corner of our from facts of the corona virus into our calculations we also took it into account during contract negotiations and the owners accommodated this extremely well 300 of line demick clause in our contract. you sign a contract for 10 years of hard work to know how things are hard for you to buy 3 or maybe 4 months at the beginning of the blink of an icon to that 10 year contract code to do continue on. a is also optimistic for now the blindness of jack and fight 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 wants and now that we're not doing so well with the covert crisis he suddenly appeared at the reception and handed us a box containing little gifts. and a donation of 2000 euros and 5000. 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 want to support or 'd. 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's all from

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