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You make it sound like having ease to start companies leads to a better social security net. Easier to start companies -> more companies -> more taxes -> safety
by Fargren 5y ago
You make it sound like having ease to start companies leads to a better social security net. Easier to start companies -> more companies -> more taxes -> safety net.
Sounds credible in theory, but the reality is that despite it being harder in the EU than the US to start a company, the safety net is much stronger in the EU. So there must be something wrong in that theory.
- refurb 5y agoI never made that claim at all. What I claimed is without jobs and companies (economic activity) you cant collect taxes which pay for social safety nets. Am I wrong? Or is there magic fairy dust to pay for a social safety net I don’t know about?
- Fargren 5y agoNo, you did not claim that. You said that the reason "society optimize for how easy it is to start a business" is that "new companies create jobs" which leads to the safety net. That implies that making it easier top start a business is a requirement for the safety net; after all, you wrote that funding for the safety net is the reason creating companies should be made easy. It follows that wherever there is funding for a safety net, businesses are easy to start. So how come that in Europe businesses are -allegedly- so hard to start, but there is a strong social safety net? TL;DR: Europe is proof that it's possible to have a certain level of regulation to business while still having enough successful businesses to fund a strong social safety net.