> German culture is about work, and working for _someone_, not starting your own business. I wonder how Germany will survive the 21st century, where a key part

> German culture is about work, and working for _someone_, not starting your own business. I wonder how Germany will survive the 21st century, where a key part is to make/capture a market first by some innovation that comes out of some startup scene (Silicon Valley most prominently) and push out all the other players. German's in tech spheres keep complaining that they are being "ripped of" by the Anglo-Saxon space, but it seems to me it's actually their own mentality that is holding them back. And of course everyone knows the story about the mp3 format, apparently invented in Germany and monetized in the US