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Never understood why they let cars there. Delivery trucks, sure.
It was way too narrow for passenger cars and there's a parallel road right next door.
It was some wacky jurisdiction thing between the city, the market stewards that run the whole market, and individual car brained shop owners
business owners are stupid as fuck.... how did they get enough capital to own a business
MIT ran a study decades ago to find the features that were most indicative of success among their PhD students. They looked at hundreds of features like intelligence, money, age, grades, prior schools, etc.
The #1 dominating factor above all others was perseverance. How much the person would just keep working despite obstacles mattered more than anything else.
The same goes for people running and starting businesses. Intelligence isn't the dominating factor, perseverance is.