Inertia explains the condition

I ran into an American who works for Carl Zeiss in Aalen. His firm was previously owned by an Australian company and now is owned by Zeiss and a venture capital firm. Zeiss is well known for making lenses among other products.

He explained that his german colleagues were trapped by inertia. They never accept what he and his Australian colleagues say. They have to do everything themselves no matter how much time and money this wastes.

Inertia explains a lot about the german social and political condition. Everyone knows that certain things need to be changed, but there is no will to do so. The education system for example. Everybody talks of the problems, which have been discussed for twenty years or so now. Yet, nothing happens, nothing changes.