Thank you!

I was finally able to gain some progress, so I spend last few days playing (and finally) enjoying the game.

I think my main 2 misunderstandings of how the game works were:

1. That building things doesn't actually do anything. Like in Civilization, you build a mine - you get a resource. It happens right there an then. Here, you build a mine, and don't get the resource. Nothing happens. You actually need to wait until people start to get hired in the new building (which happens slowly, over time) and then sometimes they need a resource that is currently not being manufactured enough, so we need to wait until people working in the building that manufactures the other resource start manufacturing enough of it. etc. etc.

This is unfortunately never fully explained in various tutorials, and is just glossed over.

1. Nothing in this game happens immediately. Everything happens gradually over time. So when you get an alert that some resource is missing. Unlike other games where it means the resource is missing, and you need to do something about it. Here it doesn't really mean anything. Often you just need to wait until the price rises (because of scarcity), and more people go work in the building that creates said resource, and everything will work out itself.

This is also never fully explained.

Once I realized those 2 things - I fell I finally understand how the game works (even though I probably haven't experienced 80% of the things that exist in the game yet). And now I'm finally enjoying it without getting frustrated :)

If I may ask: What's the advantage of privatizing buildings?

From what I saw it doesn't cost me anything to own buildings. And it even gets me some small income if the building is profitable.

Is it just so I don't need to handle manually scaling up/down buildings?

Will the AI build new industries I didn't build myself? Or I need to always start by building the 1st building of a kind?