German here.
If the way you are building a product requires you to risk the well being of your employees, which these laws are designed to protect, you and your product are not welcome here.
Please build it somewhere else.
If the way you are building a product requires you to risk the well being of your employees, which these laws are designed to protect, you and your product are not welcome here.
Please build it somewhere else.
This is a trade of. Startups can be extremely lucrative for people willing to take that risk. These laws exist to prevent abuse, yes, but they also prevent highly driven people from engaging in high risk, high reward economic activities.
As I said Germany does not want startups to exist. The only way the German economy can stay competitive if is the large German tech corporations are able to stay competitive.
Germany is really great in treating its citizens like infants and it shows.
If there was a legal category for "startup employee", with significantly fewer protections, but who can only be employed with a minimum wage of e.g. 3x the average income, would you object to that?