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While A few thousand euros definitely inhibits an amateur from becoming an expert, which is a terrible thing that greatly reduces the labor pool and possibly even some startup ideas, but I'm not sure it would stop many startups.



And if it did those startups never stood a chance in the first place


Not every startup has big investors from day one


Of course this is adjacent to the point of the entire thread, but how many medical companies/ideas have emerged from the mythical garage?


<Completely ignores linux> Sometimes people just want to make the world better, why stand in their way?




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