Woww! It's just the way the system is, dishing out subsidies. If that's just Germany, think of the rest of the world, how many entrepreneurs get to depend majorly on the revenue generated from their businesses? Scarcely. Indeed, you nailed it, we have "welfare recipients." 

iamjerry

econ

Green Agenda: The Return Of The Socialist Ideal - And Its Decline

TomK

Thanks. I coined this term some years ago in a symposium in Germany and realized that more than a third of the audience were part of the scheme. That was real fun....