Neither can you trust the FDP. When they became part of the governing coalition in the state of NRW they immediately passed a bill for more video surveillance and abolished the requirement for law enforcement to wear visible name labels or badge numbers.
Not only on goods, they even charge commission on shipping costs. With eroding seller protection and stupid changes to the UI, I guess one of the only reasons they still have vendors is their monopoly.
Check out Richard Perkins of Ridgedale Permaculture. While he also does offer courses and has written a book (which I can recommend), he also puts out a lot of information for free on Youtube.
A major emphasis of his work is to run his farm as a profitable business while using Permaculture design principles.
>I'd be interested in seeing stats on social media adoption in Germany, because my hypothesis is that they lag the rest of the world.
Not only do they lag in general, but I also remember a study which showed that in Germany higher education levels are associated with significantly less social media use, while it's quite the opposite in the rest of the world.