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In that case the business idea wasn’t good enough. If you can’t afford the cost of doing business it’s not a viable business idea. In the same category: “I can

• Karunamon 4y ago
  This is nonresponsive to the point being made. The costs under discussion are imposed mostly by the government, they are not a thing that merely exists like the weather. Reasonable people can disagree on the amount of bureaucracy required to just sell things.
• throwaway0a5e 4y ago
  Every time some politician gets on a high horse about "we're gonna make errybody who's doing X also do Y" that's a cost. A bike rack out front. A change in the ratio of hand washing stations per employee. It's all "cheap", and most of it's good stuff that's easy to justify. But it adds up in a big way. And you let this stuff run for awhile and this is how that "authentic" taco stand or used book store you loved gets pushed out of business.