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> Hey Germany, if you're so longing for a digital champion, why aren't you massively lowering taxes for start-ups, flooding them with funding and cutting their
by vkou 4y ago
> Hey Germany, if you're so longing for a digital champion, why aren't you massively lowering taxes for start-ups, flooding them with funding and cutting their red tape, instead of aiding the corrupt enterprises of well connected crooks?
What makes you think opening a firehouse of funding isn't going to be immediately siphoned up by corrupt enterprises of well-connected crooks?
- bell-cot 4y agoTHIS. If you've had a crappy environment for ~honest, competent young business leaders for a long time - then your local ecosystem will be dominated by the other sort. Like watering & fertilizing a field that has mostly been seeded with weeds, then expecting a good harvest.