The amount you can capture by directly enjoying it is crazy. You get double taxed on your labor. Once when you earn it, another when you spend it, and then the people you pay get taxed yet again on that! Plus their regulatory costs of licensing, insurance, property taxes, compliance, the cut of the shareholders/owners.

If you just do it yourself... there is no one to tax or take anything off the top. It often ends up you double your "income" from your work or better.

ok but systems that are more favorable to workers are possible

America has $0 property taxes in unincorporated Alaska, and possibly a few other places. The rates are determined locally. I pay very little but we also have no public roads and basically no fire or police -- you can pretty much pick what property tax rate you want if you're a little bit mobile.

To be fair, we were talking about Capitalism. There are few places more capitalistic than America currently.

But wow, 98€ is about how much it takes for me to take my family out to lunch at a fast food restaurant.

Whoa nice, that's nuts. Curious what country if you don't mind sharing! No worries if not