it begins with the law and all our regulations, which takes weeks to do anything. the crabs in a bucket mentallity is the next problem as you said, because boomers will sabotage you activly or they outright sue your buisness for bullshit reasons.  the next big thing are qualifications and requirments to do anything worth wile. most fields are still monopolized by berufsgenossenschaften defacto mediveal guilds, with their own rules and requirements. it's layers of bullshit stacked on each other and any breach of the rules could give you a massive fine. anything besides a food stall or an office isn't suitable to start, the inital costs and requirements are simply to great and the bureaucacy is to slow. it leads to an situation where you need to start as an more or less midsized company with enough capital to get anything serious done. the alternative are 1-5 man companies which are to small for such regulations.
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