Why does Germany have to export in order to be strong? That’s right, because not even the smart and industrialized Germans have sufficient individual income in their own national hands..to make their economy function as economic theorists only dream they have. If each nation would implement a universal dividend and a retail discount to consumers that was rebated back to participating merchants so that they could be whole on their margins and overheads the twin bugaboos of modern economies, i.e.  scarcity of available individual income and inflation would be eliminated…and the glaringly obvious monopolistic business model of Finance which creates the life blood of the economy and the means of survival by EVERYONE would be balanced by a paradigm of Gifting in the area of consumer finance. If the intellectually curious and proud former owner/operator of a boutique residential window cleaning business can see this…why can’t professional economists and their pundits see it as well?  Regardless, implement the policies…prosperity will result.