“Despite all the problems, humanity has made significant progress over the past 70 years. Prosperity has increased, life expectancy has risen. But I think we have placed too much value on the interests of mobile capital and too little on the interests of ordinary people, who are generally not so mobile. We have accepted that labor standards, tax rates, and equity regulations for banks have been competed down in international competition.”
– Schieritz, M.: “I am very worried”, in: Die Zeit (No. 53, 21.12.2016), p. 25.