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The DMCA is screwing a ton of potential music startups. Tipjoy is in a ridiculously regulated space of finance. Plenty of YC startups get screwed by immigration

The DMCA is screwing a ton of potential music startups. Tipjoy is in a ridiculously regulated space of finance. Plenty of YC startups get screwed by immigration laws. I dislike arguments about government size that bring up Europe to say the US is great. Certainly, conditions could be worse, but they are far from perfect.

davidw 18y ago
> The DMCA is screwing a ton of potential music startups. Tipjoy is in a ridiculously regulated space of finance. Plenty of YC startups get screwed by immigration laws. Like I said below, those are pretty good examples, but "America's small businesses" are not primarily comprised of that sort of thing. I guess I just reacted to the blanket "government is the problem" statement, which I feel is inaccurate. It's certainly a problem, but not the problem for most businesses. It's also a source of many benefits for businesses, such as an educated workforce, infrastructure, enforcement of contracts, but that's getting into an extremely long, drawn out and complicated argument: "the ideal level of government", that is guaranteed to go nowhere. I think we can all agree that certain things ought to be streamlined, though.
- ivankirigin 18y ago
  "Regular" small businesses are screwed on the more general evils of taxes and workplace regulation. These are minor issues at startups that have bigger issues to take care of - but they are major issues for any other small business. An educated workforce would appear without the government. Private roads and dark fiber are tenable infrastructure alternatives. Enforcement of contracts is one of the two things I'd like government to take care of. That and punishment of violent crimes. I agree that arguing about the ideal form of government is a bit of a waste. The solutions have been clear to me for years.

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The DMCA is screwing a ton of potential music startups. Tipjoy is in a ridiculously regulated space of finance. Plenty of YC startups get screwed by immigration

by ivankirigin 18y ago

davidw 18y ago
> The DMCA is screwing a ton of potential music startups. Tipjoy is in a ridiculously regulated space of finance. Plenty of YC startups get screwed by immigration laws. Like I said below, those are pretty good examples, but "America's small businesses" are not primarily comprised of that sort of thing. I guess I just reacted to the blanket "government is the problem" statement, which I feel is inaccurate. It's certainly a problem, but not the problem for most businesses. It's also a source of many benefits for businesses, such as an educated workforce, infrastructure, enforcement of contracts, but that's getting into an extremely long, drawn out and complicated argument: "the ideal level of government", that is guaranteed to go nowhere. I think we can all agree that certain things ought to be streamlined, though.
- ivankirigin 18y ago
  "Regular" small businesses are screwed on the more general evils of taxes and workplace regulation. These are minor issues at startups that have bigger issues to take care of - but they are major issues for any other small business. An educated workforce would appear without the government. Private roads and dark fiber are tenable infrastructure alternatives. Enforcement of contracts is one of the two things I'd like government to take care of. That and punishment of violent crimes. I agree that arguing about the ideal form of government is a bit of a waste. The solutions have been clear to me for years.