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Right. If there are any major issues, the companies can pay the government to make it how they want. They surely will anyhow. Very sad for the small businesses
by extralego 8y ago
Right. If there are any major issues, the companies can pay the government to make it how they want. They surely will anyhow. Very sad for the small businesses that will suffer, but I can’t reason to worry for them more than the all the millions mustering a life in the surveillance state without small business capital. It sounds rough but something has to change yesterday. Let the corporations work out the details for once and if you honestly want small businesses to have a voice, simply vote for candidates who don’t accept corporate campaign donations. That’s where it starts.
- cft 8y agoThere are no founders left on HN anymore: most commenters here with newish accounts have no idea what it takes to start or run a business themselves.
- extralego 8y agoI have started a business and sold 4 years ago. I understand your point. Mine is more about asking what pace of commercial enterprise a society can and should bear. Why must everyone carry the burdens of our greatest risk takers? Life has many facets. Some of them cannot be bought and sold, and some of them shouldn’t be. Businesses come and go like flies. Civil societies are harder to come by.