Why don't construction prices go down?

Then you have to pay more. If you can't do that, you have to rethink your business model. If the business model is based on paying minimum wage or less and therefore you can't find anyone, then unfortunately that no longer works nowadays. You may see this as know-it-all behavior, but unfortunately, that's just how it is. Because the job in the gastronomy sector is tough... Getting a wage for it that you can't live on, hardly anyone does that since Corona. They have looked for better jobs.

Yes, completely correct. People cannot and do not want to pay the prices that it simply costs to have food cooked for them. But the same applies to retail and the cleaning industry as well. Do we now want to introduce compulsory labor in these sectors so that the middle class is served? That cannot be the solution. And it also cannot be the solution to cling to old technologies, which are massively subsidized. Let's not kid ourselves about how much the car manufacturers and the large industries receive directly and indirectly. Therefore, I consider it absolutely important to allow the debt brake for investments in future-oriented technologies in order to continue exporting. And as every entrepreneur knows - including the big, famous tech billionaires - you cannot predict which idea will succeed. But you have to try. And it seems this country currently does not want that. And then we will be left behind.

Nope. What’s not worthwhile unfortunately has to be left alone. The gastronomy sector will significantly decrease in the coming years, possibly only chains will remain. But that is due to the consumer. I’m honest, I don’t go to restaurants anymore. With 4 people, that easily costs 100 EUR, which I no longer have. And I also don’t eat out in the evening on business trips anymore, with 28 EUR for a full day away, it simply doesn’t add up anymore.

Not at my front door.
But I'm curious. Do you seriously want to finance people who simply have no desire to work? And for their entire lives?

I already do that when I look at the boss's kids.
I just refuse to look for the reason for this country's misery in people who receive just under 1000 euros monthly and put that 1000 euros completely back into the economic cycle.

I find the question much more interesting as to why 175 billion euros are budgeted in the household for about 5 million Bürgergeld recipients. Even if you include costs such as housing allowance and health insurance, there remains an amount that is apparently planned for administration. And I doubt the efficiency of this administration. More money could be saved through the reduction of bureaucracy than by abolishing the Bürgergeld. But the German state simply loves its bureaucracy.

This money does not bring anything to the economic cycle because it is my money. Whether I spend it or the [Bürgergeldempfänger] does not matter. Because don't believe for a second that I can save any significant money with 2 children, a house, cars, and the desire to go to the Baltic Sea or the Ore Mountains once a year...

Much more interesting, I find, is the question of why 175 billion euros are allocated in the budget for about 5 million citizen’s income recipients. (...)

Where did you get that from? 175 billion for citizen’s income? 175 billion maybe for social affairs, but of that, 140 billion alone are pension subsidies and pensions.