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> You were never supposed to incorporate a company. You were supposed to get a job at Volkswagen.

This is it. They can't fathom a world in which people do their own thing.

What gives me pause for thought though, is the fact that the German economy does comparitively well within the EU.

> German economy does comparitively well within the EU.

That's well in the past. It's at the bottom in the EU by GDP growth now, and little hope for a come back.

Germany is generally averse to any kind of social mobility.

I would say Europe in general. And I get the sense they don't aspire to social mobility either, the way Americans do.

Honestly why should I? As long as I have anything I want.

The causality might not be what you think. You're happy with what you have because you don't see a path to getting substantially more.

Because other people aren't you, and it creates a ceiling of opportunity to the people that aspire to be more than average.