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Want more startups? Build a better safety net
- fader 10y agoThis is exactly true for me. I've always wanted to start a business and would have done so at several points in my career. But I have a family that I need to keep covered under some sort of health insurance, so I keep working for other people.
- _0ffh 10y agoSomehow that just cries UBI to me. But this will always be torpedoed by the naysayers who predict that the majority will then just kick back and play video games all day instead of working to make their visions become reality.
- germinalphrase 10y agoI think that I would prefer if we simply subsidized wages to push down hours/week. I realize this wouldn't work for intensive job roles, but I'm pretty certain that many - if not most - jobs could be shared by two, rather than one, hire. Push hours down to 20/week and hire twice as many people. More time for people to engage in hobbies/entertainment/family/community. I believe this was done in Germany in '08 as a crisis intervention to avoid the large job losses we saw here in the states.
- liamcardenas 10y agoThis might be an unpopular opinion here, but I think that there already are plenty of start ups (and I do not live in the bay). The author is probably right that reducing risk will create more entrepreneurs, but I don't "want more startups". That's how capitalism works, the grand reward of making it big motivates entrepreneurs to do the extra work and take the additional risk to succeed. Of course there would be successes that would arise due to the welfare state... but at what cost?
- elcct 10y agoThen there will be plenty of startups for the purpose of getting safety net at the expense of legitimate startups