Commentary: The future has no lobby in Germany
Will our children one day go ice skating at the VW plant? Trips to Boston and Shenzhen show how transformation and ascension can succeed - if you really want them to.
The writer recalls a visit to the Zollverein coal mine in Essen with their children last year, where they went ice skating. The mine, once home to up to 8,000 miners, is now a leisure venue. The writer ponders what the future will hold for their children and whether today's symbols of prosperity will one day be nostalgic sites like the Zollverein.
They reflect on the possibility of future generations ice skating at Volkswagen's Wolfsburg plant or Siemens' Nürnberg plant. The writer has been writing about these themes for years.
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