SMH my head, of course you should be making the duct tape yourself 🙂↔️
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While they might have co-opted it like such, I cannot imagine this being the origin.
To me "late stage" always sounded akin to late stage cancer, as capitalism is seen.
We, however should not despair in the face of the cancer, but try to heal it.
This does not seem to be the original intention according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism
I was under the impression that "alkoholfrei" / "alcohol free" could be up to 0.5%, whereas 0.0% really needed to be without any alcohol. Your link is only about the first case, if I read it correctly. They do state though that "without alcohol" should really be without.
Edit: further research seems to indicate that it is unfortunately not quite clear and you are correct: ". Sobald der vorhandene Alkoholgehalt mindestens 0,05 Volumenprozent beträgt, ist die Angabe „alkoholfrei“ um die Angabe „(< 0,5 % vol)“ zu ergänzen." - https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/weinv_1995/WeinV_1995.pdf -> only once you exceed 0.05% do you need to declare <0.5%
Very disappointing indeed. Why not have them call it <0.5% and <0.05% and have the customer take an informed decision? Of course because the industry then says: "Dear government this is too hard, let us deceive the customers 🥺"