If by careers you mean simply making a living... there are very few truly success stories. If your friends were successful in the privatization during the 90s, or in public sector, or fossil fuel related... that's why the rest of the society had to "whore" themselves abroad. Let me guess what they do at most - outsourcing for German of American corporations, maybe some software for gambling?
Some of them were recruiters so not victims at all. The recruitment was done by deception and lying. 18-19 years old is an adult and still a teenager. The urge to show up back home was massive, many women were ready to take life shortcuts, ready for many sacrifices. Arrangements like this are not 1-3 masterminds and then remaining being exclusively victims, cash in solid currency fills the holes in conscience very well.
Except when you rent and the landlord says "Internet is internet, why do you need different one?" then a next desperate tenant will rent whatever there is.
Germans coming both with the disease and a pinch of a cure. What's the role of German publishers and media companies in lobbying for the new rules? Had their activists been so special, they'd keep their copyright lobbyists chained and gagged somewhere domestically.
I presume countries like Finland and Denmark somehow oppose these rules, while countries like Bulgaria and Poland don't know what they are doing and slacked on the topics in this particular domain.
Copyright reforms pushed by American and German copyright bullies, lobbyists, predators, and stalkers. The days of your entertainment and content will come to an end. Unfortunately the bullies will likely remain unpunished.
War costs money. Civilians will be cut off from money and pushed down by security services and "law" enforcement, rewarded with privileges and confiscated money. So obvious, such a cliché, and works flawlessly every time ad infinitum.
It's more a problem why European countries gave up to American Visa/Mastercard duopoly for cards, where the alternative is... Google Pay/Apple Pay duopoly for mobile. Their only answer are miserable local debit/ATM card systems working only in individual European countries, or superfrauds like Wirecard.
During covid for a moment red/green status in a mobile app was determining basic civil freedoms and freedom of movement of an individual. This is the future if we go cashless. If things start going wrong, it takes few days for tyranny to creep in. Most people are ecstatic when given authority to control others and to toggle their rights.
The budgets and incentives are all wrong. We have to do something which will make ad and profiling zombies stay in bed every morning and look at the ceiling, instead of leaving the bed and starting their workday.
At first I was like "I hate malls and shops with their ads and upselling, I don't want Coca Cola, Lays, Snickers, and chewing gum with every purchase, I'm buying everything online", and now I'm like "they asked for my birth date and mobile phone number, somehow I managed to order without installing their app, then finally the item which arrived is nothing like the item on the photos and in the description, and it stinks".
I'm unable to count how many times I bricked my and my family's Samsung phones in attempt to remove bloatware apps and services. You think it's as easy a one liner with service name and `adb uninstall`? oooops wrong service, now you have to hard reset and reinstall the device...