Reply #23: Yep. More than one. What it takes is fascism butting out. [View All]

[saras]

It's not hard to run a business. Don't repeatedly do stupid things and you're ninety percent there - you don't have to be great. Hell, you don't even have to be that competent, really. There's plenty of people who will accept a mediocre, middle-of-the-road job or product, as long as it does its job. If you WANT to be high-end, of course you can. If you're good enough at something. Most of us aren't.

For me, a better business environment would be one with consistent, stable, high environmental and labor standards, so that my concern was running a business and not exploiting slaves. There would be few or no laws written by large corporations giving them unreasonable advantages over others. There would be regulations that were rational enough that I could predict with reasonable success what they are likely to say without having to have lawyers read every word of every one before even thinking about something new. It would be clear which government agency was responsible for what issue. The government would view American business as something of profound strategic value to the country, and it wouldn't allow globalists to devalue or damage it.

Basically, I want the government to keep gangsters, monopolists, protection rackets (including intellectual property), and financial manipulators off my back so I can serve my customers. Everything else I can handle, or I can find people to handle.

On the other hand, there's different kinds of people, and some of them prefer a really different kind of business, one that has little respect for the notion of consent, and views it as appropriate and normal for murderous hostility to be embedded in business relationships. I can't really imagine a country where they and I could conduct business at the same time.