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To make fundamental changes in the behavior of a #SocialSystem requires its #agents adopt an alternative #purpose and #OrganizingPrinciples to those currently in place. If successful, this shift will create a new social system with significantly different #rules and #boundaries.
Any social system change process begins with a set of conversations among agents in the system about how to better apply its purpose and organizing principles. This leads to experimentation with alternatives, then modification of the rules and boundaries to adopt those that work.
Important topics for #conversation at the outset of an intentional #SocialSystem #ChangeProcess are those that bring #agents in the system together to recall and / or clarify the system’s #purpose and #OrganizingPrinciples then to either confirm them or challenge their relevance.
#Germany #SocialSystem #funding
In the past year, all expenditures for the German social security systems totaled around 1.04 trillion euros - i.e. 1,040 billion euros. The Federal Ministry of Labor has determined.
In the past year, all expenditures for the German social security systems totaled around 1.04 trillion euros - i.e. 1,040 billion euros. The Federal Ministry of Labor has determined.
The social benefits thus reached a share of 30.3 percent of the total German economic output. State pension insurance accounts for 30.5 percent of all social spending. In relation to the total of 1.04 trillion euros in 2019, that was a good 317 billion euros.
The item is made up of contributions from those with statutory pension insurance, employer contributions and tax subsidies from the government that amount to billions. At 25.4 percent, health insurance is the second largest item in the social budget.
